6.5.1

Procedure
1 Restore the Most Recently Backed Up Platform Services Controller Virtual Machine With the Direct-
to-Host Emergency Restore Operation
The direct‐to‐host emergency restore operation lets you restore the VM that contains
Platform Services Controller when vCenter Server becomes unavailable or when you cannot access
the vSphere Data Protection user interface by using the vSphere Web Client.
2 Run the vcenter-restore Script
After you complete the restore process of the Platform Services Controller, you must run the
vcenter-restore script on the vCenter Server instances registered with the restored
Platform Services Controller.
3 Deploy Platform Services Controllers
If more than onePlatform Services Controller instances fail in an environment that contains multiple
Platform Services Controller instances, you must deploy new Platform Services Controller instances
and join them to the active nodes in the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain, and site.
4 Repoint Back the Connections Between vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller Instances
After you restore the failed Platform Services Controller instances in an environment that contains
multiple vCenter Server instances registered with different external Platform Services Controller
instances, you must repoint back the vCenter Server instances to the restored
Platform Services Controller nodes.
Restore the Most Recently Backed Up Platform Services Controller Virtual Machine With the
Direct-to-Host Emergency Restore Operation
The direct‐to‐host emergency restore operation lets you restore the VM that contains
Platform Services Controller when vCenter Server becomes unavailable or when you cannot access the
vSphere Data Protection user interface by using the vSphere Web Client.
vSphere Data Protection depends on vCenter Server for many of the vSphere Data Protection core
operations. When vCenter Server becomes unavailable, an emergency restore operation can restore the
virtual machine that contains the vCenter Server, vCenter Server Appliance, or
Platform Services Controller directly on the ESXi host that is running the vSphere Data Protection
Appliance. The Emergency Restore tab displays a list of VMs that have been backed up by the vSphere
Data Protection Appliance. These VMs that contain vCenter Server or Platform Services Controller
instances can be restored as new VMs on the ESXi host where the vSphere Data Protection Appliance is
running. For best practices, recommendations, and limitations of the emergency restore operation, see
the vSphere Data Protection documentation.
Note This procedure describes the steps by using vSphere Data Protection 6.1.3. The steps might vary
if you use a different version of vSphere Data Protection.
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