While restoring VMware Virtual Machines in Data Protector, we can select the destination datacenter.
This can be done in the "Destination" context, "Restore to datacenter" option.
By default this option is set to "Original Location"
We need to keep in mind that Restoring to the Original Location, does not only mean restoring to the original Data Center but also to the original Host/Cluster and to the original specific ESX host. This is why all the host options are grayed out, because we are enforcing restore to Original Location.
So if the Original Host/Cluster/ESX is down, this restore will fail.
In order to be able to restore to the same Data Center but to a different host, we need to select the Destination data store name without the "(Original Location)" label.
This way we will be able to select a different Host/Cluster and/or ESX host as the destination, and the restore will be successful this time.
Regards
Juanjo