Dell Replay Manager Version 7.8 Administrator’s Guide

Restore Action for VMware

Instead of exposing the datastore for large scale or rapid image level recovery, the Restore action automatically deletes the existing virtual machines being restored and then restores the virtual machines individually by using a copy operation from a View volume back to its original location. The Restore action is only supported by the VMware Virtual Machines backup extension and is fully automated.

Because Restore is a bulk copy operation, available blocks are written to as new according to the storage profile applied to the volume. Using the Storage Center defaults, the virtual machines are copied into Tier 1 storage regardless of where the blocks existed previously. The main benefit of this method is that it provides automated virtual machine recovery at the expense of storage efficiency and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).