Restore the Protected Domain
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:
- General
- Review information about the imported protected domain to be restored.
- If the information is correct, click the Next button.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.