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Restoring a VM to a new name and IP - is this possible?

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Hello,

I am using Acronis Backup Advanced Version 11.5 Update 5 (Build 11.5.38929). This is running in a VMware 5.5 environment with 3 hosts in a cluster. I have HA and DRS enabled. I am trying to perform a restore/recovery of a full VM. When I set up the Recovery plan/task I specify what I want to restore, and where I want to restore to, and make sure that option for the restored VM does not power on after restore is completed is set properly. When I initiate the restore, it immediately fails within 60 seconds, and tells me that the server name "blahblahblah" already exists. I know it exists. But I haven't restored it yet nor is it powered on, so why does Acronis care if it's a duplicate name? Or perhaps my other question is, can I restore a VM and give it a new name and IP address so that it doesn't conflict with the existing machine? I cannot power down the existing machine because it's in production. I simply need to perform a restore for DR purposes to prove the restore function works. However, performing multiple restores to different hosts within the cluster or even to a host outside the cluster results in the same failure. Could you please help? Thanks!

Alex

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Hi Alex,
thank you for your posting!
Could you please provide more information on restore settings that you choose by creating a recovery task and copy the full error message?
Thank you.