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title: "How-to Restore an Exchange Database to a Windows Virtual Machine"
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# How-to Restore an Exchange Database to a Windows Virtual Machine

### Introduction

The Instant Volume Mount operation restores an entire volume to a Windows VM and is the best way to restore data when recovering a large data set. This restoration method is used to recover Exchange Databases; the Exchange Database's volume will be mounted as a new drive. An Exchange Administrator can then perform the required recovery operations.

### Procedure

###### Cloud Data Protection Recovery Steps

1. [Log in](/v1/docs/how-to-access-cloud-data-protection) to the Cloud Data Protection system
2. From the navigation bar at the top of the page, select the **Data Protection** → **Recoveries** tab.  
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3. Select the **Recover** button and then **Instant Volume Mount**  **![](https://cdn.document360.io/69e9f9c7-5da8-45e7-a671-4b8287f36122/Images/Documentation/image-1613065879300.png)**
4. Utilize the search bar to locate the appropriate Exchange server.
5. **Click** the desired VM to restore to move directly to the **Recovery Options** page.
6. Set the recovery options

1. **Interface:**         If restoring to EEC, choose **Select from Interface/VLANs** and select **bond0.1930 (bond0.1940 will alternatively be set on DUB-COHESITY); if** restoring to private infrastructure, select **Select from Interface/VLANs** and select the appropriate **bond0.*** interface.  
   
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1. Select **Create Task**
2. You will be redirected to the Recovery Overview screen to monitor the restore status.
3. Upon success, the VMDK of the volume will be attached to the target VM

###### Exchange Recovery Steps

1. Log in to the target VM
2. Mount the VMDK within Windows on the target VM
  1. Login to the Target VM
  2. Launch the **Disk Management** utility
  3. Locate the restored disk
  4. **Right-click** the disk and select **Online**
  5. The disk will now mount to the OS

1. Utilizing native Exchange Tools perform a recovery on the restored database
  1. [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/high-availability/disaster-recovery/restore-data-using-recovery-dbs?view=exchserver-2019](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/high-availability/disaster-recovery/restore-data-using-recovery-dbs?view=exchserver-2019)
2. Unmount the VMDK within Windows on the target VM
  1. Login to the Target VM
  2. Launch the **Disk Management** utility
  3. Locate the restored disk
  4. **Right-click** the disk and select **Offline**
  5. The disk will now unmount from the OS

###### Cloud Data Protection Recovery Steps

1. [Log in](/v1/docs/how-to-access-cloud-data-protection) to the Cloud Data Protection system.
2. From the navigation bar at the top of the page, select the **Protection** → **Recovery** tab.
3. Select the **Task Name** of the restore you initiated
4. Select **Tear Down** to remove the disk from the VM and clean up all Cohesity configurations  
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5. Select **Yes, Tear Down** to confirm the operation.