A Point-In-Time-Recovery session can be manually started for a PITR enabled Domain. Use this option if some (or all) VMs are compromised and need to be restored to a specific point in time.

    1. Go to the recovery site.
    2. On the Protected Domains screen, open the More menu and select the PITR Session option.

Figure 275: Start the PITR Session.

    1. Follow the guided steps of the pop-up dialog window that appears.

Step: General

      • Review the PITR Protected Domain and storage site.
      • Click the Next button.

Figure 276: Review details of the PITR protected domain.

Step: VM Selection

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

Figure 277: Select a recovery group and VMs.

Note: After a PITR session has been started, additional VMs from the Protected Domain cannot be added to the session for rollback. A new PITR session should be started to access them.

Step: Summary

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

Figure 278: Review the selected VMs and initiate the PITR session.

    1. When PITR starts, the selected VMs will be shut down and the PITR session will begin.
      • It will now be possible to recover and test the selected PITR VMs.
      • Any VMs of the Protected Domain that were not included in the PITR session will continue to operate normally with full protection.

Figure 279: The PITR session will begin for the selected VMs.

Note: 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.

    1. While the PITR session is active, open the More menu then click the option Run PITR to roll back VMs to a specific point in time.

Figure 280: Run PITR to recover protected VMs for checking and restoration.

Note: Until the PITR session is completed, do not perform any VMware events on PITR VMs in the session (including: snapshots, vMotion, cloning, etc.)

Also see:

Recover and Test PITR VMs