Workflows

How-Tos for VMware Solutions
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Here are the main workflows that will be demonstrated:

  1. Recovering a Deleted VVol VM within 24 Hours
  2. Recovering a Deleted VVol VM after 24 Hours
  3. Recovering a Deleted VVol VM VMDK within 24 Hours
  4. Recovering a Deleted VVol VM VMDK after 24 Hours
  5. Cloning a VVol VM from a point in time snapshot
  6. Importing a Virtual Volume into another VM

    With each of these situations we'll see a workflow where the VM has a storage policy applied that is replicating or has local snapshots, if there are Managed Snapshots for the VM, if the VM is manually put into a FlashArray protection group, if the VM has manual snapshots and finally if there are no snapshots.

    >> The process of deleting each of the VMs was powering them off and then deleting from disk as follows: (click to expand)

    Here the VM will be first powered off:

    After the VM is powered off, it is then deleted from disk:

    This same process is used for each of the VMs:

    After the VM is powered off, it is then deleted from disk:

    Then, from the FlashArray, we can see the Volume Groups and Volumes pending eradication:

    Let's get started.