After you finish recovering VMs, you can end ransomware recovery by stopping the plan.

After you end a ransomware recovery plan, it reverts to the ready state. Ending the recovery plan deletes all staging snapshots, removes running VM instances in the recovery SDDC, and resumes snapshot retention schedules for VMs in the plan.
Note: You cannot end a recovery plan for ransomware recovery if any VMs are in validation or staged. Cancel or recover VMs in those states before ending the plan.

Procedure

  1. From the Recovery plan page, click the End Recovery button.
    End ransomware recovery button on the Recovery plan page.
  2. The End ransomware recovery dialog box launches and states how many VMs you recovered and where they were recovered to. In this dialog box you can create a failback plan, if you have VMs recovered to the recovery SDDC and now you want to be able to fail those VMs back once the original protected site (or another site) has been restored.
    Here you can create a failback plan, if you have VMs recovered to the recovery SDDC and now you want to be able to fail those VMs back, once the original protected site (or another site) has been restored.
    Under 'Failback plan', you can select 'Create a failback plan', which creates a duplicate failback plan that reverses the order of steps in the plan. You can use the duplicate plan for failback if you recovered any VMs on the recovery SDDC and want to fail them back at a later time.
    Make sure you set an alternative datastore for the plan. (You can also set this later, before you run the plan.)
    You can select the 'During failback, wait for user confirmation before powering off VMs', if you want the failback to wait for user confirmation before powering off all VMs in the plan. You can also add an optional prompt to display when the plan pauses. Choose this option if you want to control the time at which VMs in the plan will be shut down, which can take considerable time, depending on the size and number of VMs.
    Enter a name for the failback plan. As a best practice, it is helpful to leave the [failback] text in front of the plan name, so it is easy to distinguish between failback and failover plans.
  3. Click End Ransomware Recovery to stop the plan.