During VMware recovery, you can repave your protected VMware instances by replacing the operating system disk with a known clean version. Repaving ensures that vulnerabilities or malicious changes made to the OS are erased, providing a secure and reliable recovery solution for users.
You can recover with repave to certain cloud service providers. For more information, see Recovery with Repave for VMs/Instances.
Prerequisites
If a passkey is configured for restores, you must have the passkey.
Procedure
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From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtualization.
The Overview page appears.
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On the VM groups tab, in the row for the VM group, click the action button
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Click Repave.
The Repave page appears.
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To select a specific source copy and/or Backup Gateway for the restore, in the upper-right area of the page, click Change source.
The Change source dialog box appears.
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Select the source copy and Backup Gateway as required, and then click OK.
By default, the software automatically selects the Backup Gateway and source copy as follows:
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Restore from copy: With the default value of Automatic, the software searches for the requested data in the primary copy. If the data is not found in the primary copy, the software selects a secondary or auxiliary copy.
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MediaAgent: With the default value of Automatic, software attempts to use the MediaAgent that performed the backup.
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Select the disk to restore.
Note
The OS disk and data disks of the original instance are attached to the new VM as data disks.
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Click Restore.
The Repave options dialog box appears.
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For Restore as, select the cloud service provider to repave the VM to.
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Specify the other settings.
For more information, see the recovery with repave page for the destination hypervisor.
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Click Submit.