Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

Backup

You can perform a backup by using the following guidelines:

1. Create one policy/group and add the vCenter virtual machine and PSC virtual machine to the group. This will ensure that snapshots are taken at the same time.
2. Ensure that you select the full virtual machine and not individual disks.
3. Run the scheduled or on-demand (ad-hoc) policy.

Recovery

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

• Restore to original — This method is valid only when the 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. Note that this ESXi must be registered with the Avamar server.
• Instant access restore to an ESXi — Use this method if you have completely lost your VCSA and 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.