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8 Click the Monitor tab and click Recovery Steps.
The Recovery Steps tab displays the progress of individual steps. The Recent Tasks area reports the
progress of the overall plan.
Recover a Point-in-Time Snapshot of a Virtual Machine
With vSphere Replication, you can retain point-in-time snapshots of a virtual machine. You can configure
Site Recovery Manager to recover a number of point-in-time (PIT) snapshots of a virtual machine when you
run a recovery plan.
You configure the retention of PIT snapshots when you configure vSphere Replication on a virtual machine.
For more information about PIT snapshots, see “Replicating a Virtual Machine and Enabling Multiple Point
in Time Instances,” on page 27.
To enable PIT snapshots, configure replication of a virtual machine by using the vSphere Replication
interface in the vSphere Web Client.
Site Recovery Manager only recovers the most recent PIT snapshot during a recovery. To recover older
snapshots, you must enable the vrReplication > preserveMpitImagesAsSnapshots option in Advanced
Settings in the Site Recovery Manager interface. If you recover a PIT snapshot of a virtual machine for which
you have configured IP customization, Site Recovery Manager only applies the customization to the most
recent PIT snapshot. If you recover a virtual machine with IP customization and revert to an older PIT
snapshot, you must configure the IP settings manually.
Point-in-time recovery is not available with array-based replication.
Procedure
1 Configure Site Recovery Manager to retain older PIT snapshots by setting the vrReplication >
preserveMpitImagesAsSnapshots option.
2 Use the vSphere Replication interface to configure replication of a virtual machine, selecting the option
to retain a number of PIT snapshots.
3 In the Site Recovery Manager interface, add the virtual machine to a vSphere Replication protection
group.
4 Include the vSphere Replication protection group in a recovery plan.
5 Run the recovery plan.
When the recovery plan is finished, the virtual machine is recovered to the recovery site, with the
number of PIT snapshots that you configured.
6 In the VMs and Templates view, right-click the recovered virtual machine and select Snapshot >
Snapshot Manager.
7 Select one of the PIT snapshots of this virtual machine and click Go to.
The recovered virtual machine reverts to the PIT snapshot that you selected.
8 (Optional) If you have configured the virtual machine for IP customization, and if you select an older
PIT snapshot than the most recent one, manually configure the IP settings on the recovered virtual
machine.
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