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16 Wait for the OVA deployment to finish, and click Continue to proceed with stage 2 of the restore
process to transfer the data to the newly deployed appliance.
Note If you exit the wizard by clicking Close, you must log in to the vCenter Server Appliance
Management Interface to transfer the data.
The newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance is running on the target server but the data is not copied
from the backup location.
Stage 2 - Transfer Data to the Newly Deployed Appliance
After the OVA deployment finishes, you are redirected to stage 2 of the restore process in which the data
from the backup location is copied to the newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance.
Procedure
1 Review the introduction to stage 2 of the restore process and click Next.
2 Review the backup details and click Next.
3 If you are restoring a vCenter Server Appliance that is a vCenter Embedded Linked Mode, you are
asked to provide the Single Sign-On credentials. Enter the Single Sign-On user name and password,
then click Validate and Recover.
4 On the Ready to complete page, review the details, click Finish, and click OK to complete stage 2 of
the restore process.
The restore process restarts the vCenter Server Appliance Management Service. You cannot access
the vCenter Server Appliance Management API during the restart.
Important If a restore operation of a vCenter Server Appliance or a Platform Services Controller
appliance VM results with a failure, you must power off and delete the partially restored VM. After that
you can try to restore the VM again.
5 (Optional) After the restore process finishes, click the
https://vcenter_server_appliance_fqdn/vsphere-client to go to the vSphere Web Client and log in
to the vCenter Server instance in the vCenter Server Appliance, or click the
https://vcenter_server_appliance_fqdn:443 to go to the vCenter Server Appliance Getting Started
page.
6 Click Close to exit the wizard.
You are redirected to the vCenter Server Appliance Getting Started page.
7 If the backed up vCenter node is part of a vCenter High Availability cluster, the last needs to be
reconfigured after the restore operation completes successfully.
For information about how to perform backup and restore operations, see vSphere Availability.
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