A Point-In-Time-Recovery session can be automatically started after VMs of a PITR enabled Domain have been recovered from continuous failover. Use this option if the entire protected site is compromised and all VMs should be failed over to the DR recovery site; PITR is then used to roll back the VMs to a specific point in time.

    1. This function applies to PITR enabled Protected Domains.
    2. Begin Continuous Failover of the Protected Domain:
      • Go to the recovery site.
      • On the Protected Domains screen, open the More menu and select the Continuous Failover option.
      • Allow continuous failover to operate normally.

Figure 288: Start continuous failover of the PITR-enabled Protected Domain.

    1. When completing continuous failover, specify a failover type and select the Run PITR after recovering VMs checkbox option.

Figure 289: Select the option to run PITR after recovery.

      • Various dialog window messages can appear announcing information about continuous failover and the PITR session.

Figure 290: Message: PITR session.

Figure 291: Message: Continuous rehydration.

Figure 292: Message: Force failover.

    1. A PITR session will automatically start once the continuous failover VMs have been recovered. In this case, PITR becomes an integral step of the continuous failover process and rollback should be performed to restore the VMs before exiting the PITR session and completing continuous failover.

Figure 293: The PITR session initiates automatically during the completion of continuous failover.

Notes:
1) While a PITR session is active, protection of the selected VMs is temporarily suspended. It is not possible to failover, failback or restore to any periods of time during which a PITR session was active. Therefore, it is advisable to keep PITR sessions active no longer than absolutely necessary; these periods of time are not covered by DR protection. After a PITR session is exited, all DR protection resumes normally.
2) While a PITR session is active, do not perform any VMware events on PITR VMs in the session (including: snapshots, vMotion, cloning, etc.)


Important: PITR following continuous failover is considered an integral part of the failover process. It is expected the Domain will be rolled back to a point in time within the PITR window during the session. If the session is exited without performing a PITR rollback, all PITR data will be reset and it will no longer be possible to roll back to points in time from the original PITR window.

Also see:

Recover and Test PITR VMs