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.

  1. From the navigation menu, expand Manage Protection, then expand Hypervisors. Expand VMware, then click Restore.
  2. 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).
  3. Recovery points include virtual machines, VM templates, datastores, folders, and vApps. Expand an entry to view individual recovery points by date.
  4. To select the latest restore point, click Add to Restore List Add to Restore List icon 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 Add to Restore List icon 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 Remove icon icon to remove restore points from the Restore List.
  5. 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.
  6. Optional: To configure additional options, click Options and follow the instructions in Create a VMware Restore Job Definition.
  7. 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:
  8. Cleanup
  9. 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.
  10. Move to Production (vMotion)
  11. Migrates the virtual machine through vMotion to the Datastore and the Virtual Network defined as the "Production" network.
  12. Clone (vMotion)
  13. Migrates the virtual machine through vMotion to the Datastore and Virtual Network defined as the "Test" network.

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