Removing an instantly recovered Hyper-V virtual machine

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
You should remove an instantly recovered virtual machine from the Backup Exec server storage after it has been migrated or when you no longer need to use it.
To remove an instantly recovered virtual machine
  1. On the Backup and Restore tab, select the Hyper-V server that contains the instantly recovered virtual machine that you want to remove.
You can double-click a Hyper-V server and then in the left pane, click Recovered VMs to view the virtual machines that were instantly recovered to the server.
  1. In the Instant Recovery group, click Remove a Recovered VM , and then do one of the following:
    To remove a recovered virtual machine now Do the following in the order listed\:
    - Select Use Defaults and remove now .
    - On the Select Recovered VMs to Remove dialog box, select one or more recovered virtual machines to remove.
    - Click OK .
    To customize settings and then remove a Do the following in the order listed\:
    recovered virtual machine - Select Customize settings and remove .
    - On the Select Recovered VMs to Remove dialog box, select one or more recovered virtual machines to schedule for removal.
    - Click OK .
    - On the Remove a Recovered Virtual Machine dialog box, in the Job name field, type a name for the job.
    - In the Server logon account field, add or edit a logon account for the Hyper-V server.
    - Check the Remove the virtual machine even though disks are on both Backup Exec server storage and the virtual machine host check box to remove the disks and then continue the job to remove the instantly recovered virtual machine. If you do not select this option, the disks cannot be removed and the job fails.
    - On the Remove a Recovered Virtual Machine dialog box, in the left pane, select Schedule , and then select the schedule for this job.
    - (Optional) On the Remove a Recovered Virtual Machine dialog box, in the left pane, select Notification , and then select recipients to notify when the job completes.
    - Click OK .