Getting Started - Create a Restore Job
Create a job definition for the resource that you want to restore.
About this task
For example purposes, this task describes how to create a restore job for resources that are in a VMware vCenter. To create restore jobs for other resources, see the instructions by provider type in Operations Overview.
Procedure
To create a VMware restore job, complete the following steps.
- From the navigation menu, expand Manage Protection, then expand Hypervisors. Expand VMware, then click Restore.
- Use the search function to search for available resources and toggle the displayed resources through the View filter. Available options are VMs and Templates and VM(s).
- Recovery points include virtual machines, VM templates, datastores, folders, and vApps. Expand an entry to view individual recovery points by date.
- To select the latest restore point, click Add to Restore List
at the resource level. Then, from the Select a site drop-down menu, select the site associated with the backup storage server you want to recover from. To restore a specific restore point from a specific site, expand a resource in the Restore pane, then click the Add to Restore List
icon associated with the restore point. Note that adding a combination of latest restore points and specific restore points to the Restore List is not supported. Click the Remove
icon to remove restore points from the Restore List.
- To run the job now using default options, click Restore. To schedule the job to run using default options, click Manage Restore Jobs and define a trigger for the job.
- Optional: To configure additional options, click Options and follow the instructions in Create a VMware Restore Job Definition.
- Once the job completes successfully, select one of the following options from the Actions menu on the Jobs Sessions or Active Clones sections on the Restore pane:
- Cleanup
- Destroys the virtual machine and cleans up all associated resources. Since this is a temporary/testing virtual machine, all data is lost when the virtual machine is destroyed.
- Move to Production (vMotion)
- Migrates the virtual machine through vMotion to the Datastore and the Virtual Network defined as the "Production" network.
- Clone (vMotion)
- Migrates the virtual machine through vMotion to the Datastore and Virtual Network defined as the "Test" network.
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