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 click 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.
2(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.
2(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 VM storage policy.
- Click the Next button.
3. Recovery VA
- Specify network settings for the Management Network, Host (iofilter)/RocVA to DRVA Network, and Recovery Network to Object Store.
- DHCP will be used by default.
- Static IP addresses can be manually assigned by de-selecting the Apply same network settings to all checkbox then selecting a network's Static IP checkbox and clicking its Configure button.
- A mix of static and dynamic IP addresses can be used.
- Specify a default Gateway Network.
- This is not necessary if DHCP is used.
- Click the Next button.
Note: Learn more about Recovery Virtual Appliances (RocVA).
4. 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.
5. 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 blue "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.