When necessary to restore VMs using PITR, a PITR session must be started to create an environment for rolling back and testing the VMs for recovery.

  1. On the Protected Domains tab, open the More menu and select the PITR option.

  1. Follow the guided steps of the pop-up dialog window that appears.
    • General
      • Review the PITR protected domain and storage site.
      • Click the Next button.

    • VM Selection
      • Select a recovery group and/or individual independent VMs you are potentially interested in rolling back.
      • These choices can be refined later during testing and final selection.
      • Click the Next button.

Note: After a PITR session has been started, additional VMs from the protected domain cannot be added to the session for rollback. A new session will need to be started to incorporate them.

    • Summary
      • Review the selected VMs. 
      • Click the Submit button.

  1. The selected VMs will be shut down and the PITR session will begin allowing you to recover and test the VMs.
    • Any VMs of the protected domain that were not included in the PITR session will continue to operate normally.

Note: While a PITR session is active, protection of the domain is temporarily suspended. It will not be possible to failover, failback or restore to any periods of time during which a PITR session was active. Therefore, it is not advisable to leave PITR sessions active longer than necessary. Once the session is exited, all DR protection resumes normally.

  1. The Protected Domains tab will now indicate the Point-in-time Recovery session is active.