Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

Backup

You can perform a backup of an embedded PSC by using the following guidelines.

1. Create a protection policy, and then add the vCenter virtual machine to the policy.
2. Select the full virtual machine and not individual disks.
3. Run the scheduled or on-demand (ad-hoc) policy.

Recovery

Depending on the type of failure, you can perform the virtual machine recovery by using one of the following methods.

• Restore to original — This method is valid only when the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is intact and running, but corrupted.
• Recover as a new virtual machine to an ESXi server — Use this method if you have completely lost your VCSA. This ESXi must be registered with the Avamar server.
• Instant access restore to an ESXi — Use this method if the backup is saved to a Data Domain system. Restores using this method will complete more quickly than the other methods.

Once the restore is complete, perform storage migration of this virtual machine to the desired datastore, and then unmount the NFS datastore from the ESXi.

For appliance restore, perform any one of the above methods depending on the failure type, and then perform the following steps.

1. After the recovery operation, wait until the virtual machine starts up.
2. Log in to the vCenter Server appliance shell as root.
3. Verify that all PSC and vCenter Server services are running:

   For an appliance, run the service-control --status -all command in the appliance shell.

   For a vCenter Server installed on Windows, from the Windows Start menu, select Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.