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March 21st, 2017 15:00
What is the best practice for restoring vCenter when vCenter is not available in the environment?
The customer is running a vSphere 6 virtual environment and the vCenter server is a VM. Avamar 7.3.1 is being used to back up the VM environment using image based backups with dynamic policies. The vCenter VM is included in the dynamic policy and is being backed up as an image. I'm trying to figure out the best approach/practice for backing up the vCenter server to accommodate a restore in the event the vCenter VM is not available. As I know, the vCenter server is required to perform an image based restore and if the vCenter server is not available the restore will fail. Thoughts: Is there a way to navigate Avamar storage to access the vCenter VMDK files? Should a client backup be utilized? Is there another method to restore the vCenter server to another VM much like a bare metal restore?
ShadySalama
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March 22nd, 2017 05:00
Adding to Jerome's comments, you can integrate the ESX host directly to Avamar, check in the guide page 89 https://support.emc.com/docu69641_Avamar_7.3_for_VMware_User_Guide.pdf?language=en_US
After protecting the ESX directly, you need to deploy a proxy on that ESX and register to Avamar so you can redirect the vCenter VM image restore to the ESX host and the VM will be restored there.
Clean up this integration after the vCenter VM restore is successful and it is back to production.
Appreciate your update and feedback if this was helpful to solve the problem; don't forget to mark the question as answered when the problem is solved.
Best Regards,
Shady Salama
Subject Matter Expert (SME), Avamar, Data Protection & Availability Solutions
Dell EMC | Technical Support Services