Disaster Recovery User's Guide

3 Click Cleanup.
A confirmation dialog box appears.
4 Click Continue.
Running a clean up after a test resets the test recovery for the virtual machine by performing these tasks:
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Powers off the test virtual machine.
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Replaces the test virtual machine with a placeholder, preserving the virtual machine identity and
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Cleans up replicated storage snapshots that the virtual machine used during testing.
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Resets the Recovery Status from Test to Placeholder.
About Recovery to vCloud Air
Run this workflow to recover your production virtual machines from your source site to vCloud Air. When
possible, VMware recommends you test the recovery before running the recovery.
You can recover a virtual machine by using vCloud Air when your source site is no longer accessible. You
might be able to begin a recovery from your source site by using your local vSphere Web Client; for
example, you have sufficient warning of an outage and still have access to your local vSphere Web Client so
that you can run a planned migration.
For information about recovering virtual machines to the cloud by using planned migration, see What
Happens During a Planned Migration in vSphere Replication 6.0 for Disaster Recovery to Cloud.
When you recover a virtual machine from your source site to vCloud Air, the production state of the virtual
machine represents a point in time before the outage. Data accumulated after the last replication to
vCloud Air and before the recovery is not available in the cloud.
Recovering a virtual machine to vCloud Air stops replication from the source site.
Multiple Point in Time Recovery
By enabling the multiple point in time (MPIT) setting, you can leverage previous replication points for better
control on failover. It allows you to:
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Set up to 24 previous restore points
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Choose your restore point
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Restore up to 24 days previous replication points (dependent on your RPO setting)
Figure 2‑4. Choose from up to 24 Recovery Snapshots
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You can choose the MPIT settings in the Recovery settings step while configuring a virtual machine for
replication in the vSphere Web Client. See Configure a Replication to Cloud for a Single Virtual Machine in
vSphere Replication 6.0 for Disaster Recovery to Cloud for information about configuring replication to the
cloud.
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