PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Administration and User Guide

Manage and monitor Instant Access sessions

In the PowerProtect Data Manager UI, the Instant Access tab of the Restore > Running Sessions window enables you to monitor vMotion events, and to manage the status of a virtual machine restore to new or instant access virtual machine restore. For example, you can extend the availability period or delete an instant access virtual machine.

When the Jobs window indicates that a recovery has completed successfully, go to Restore > Running Sessions > Instant Access to access information about the sessions. This window enables you to monitor and manage all exported copies that you have created from protection storage. An active restore session with a state of Mounting indicates that the restore is still in progress. Once the state changes to Mounted, the restore is complete and the instant access virtual machine is ready. When you select the session in the table, you can choose from three options:

• Extend —Click to extend the number of days the instant access virtual machine restore is available. The default retention period of an instant access virtual machine restore is 7 days.
• Migrate —Click to open the Migrate Storage vMotion wizard, which enables you to move the instant access virtual machine to a protection datastore. Migrate an instant access session provides instructions.
• Delete —Click if you no longer require the active restore session. Note that you can also vMotion from inside the vCenter server, and PowerProtect Data Manager removes the Instant Access Session upon detection.

For instant access virtual machine restores, availability of the instant access virtual machine session is also indicated in the vSphere Client. The session appears in the Recent Tasks pane, and you can expand the cluster and select the instant access virtual machine to view summary information, as shown in the following figure.