Once the MSA is available at the primary site and the desired protected domain has been selected, begin the restore process.

  • With the desired protected domain selected, open the More menu and select the Restore option.

  • Follow the guided steps of the pop-up dialog window to configure and initiate the restore process:
    1. General
      • Review information about the imported protected domain to be restored.
      • If the information is correct, click the Next button.

    1. (a) Restore Settings
      • Make selections from the drop-down menus to specify recovery settings of the primary site, including: datacenter, cluster, resource pool, and datastore. 
      • Click the Next button.

    1. (b) VM Settings
      • Map a Recovery VM Network to the Protected VM Network.
      • Under the Other Settings section select options to retain VM MAC addresses, to power off VMs during restoration, and specify a storage policy for VMs.
      • Click the Next button.

    1. Recovery VA
      • Specify network settings for the replication network to the object store, the DRVA network, and the management network. 
      • DHCP will be used by default.
        • Static IP addresses can be manually assigned, if necessary.
      • Click the Next button.

Note: Additional information about recovery virtual appliances (RocVA) can be found in Chapter 10.

    1. DR Settings
      • Select the DRVA and replication log storage of the primary site from the drop-down menus.
      • Specify sizes for the replication log and metadata.
      • Click the Next button.

Note: The replication log and metadata will be allocated from the selected replication log storage.

    1. Summary
      • Review all entered settings on the Summary step. 
      • Use the Back button to modify any settings that need to be changed.
      • Click the Restore button to begin the restore process.

  • The restore process will begin and the mode of the protected domain will change to “Recovery in Progress.” 
    • Details of each task step can be viewed by clicking the info icon of the Current Step section.

  • When the restore process is complete the VMs of the protected domain will be fully operational and their status will be “recoverable” again and they will continue to be protected.

  • The DRVA created for the restore process may safely be deleted from the system if it is no longer being used by any other process.