You can restore your vSphere Bitfusion database and recover the cluster to a previously healthy state.
To recover your
vSphere Bitfusion cluster from a failure or unhealthy state, you can use a backup file to restore the configuration, connectivity, health state, and history data of the cluster.
Prerequisites
- Verify that you have a backup of your vSphere Bitfusion environment.
- Verify that your vSphere Bitfusion cluster has one vSphere Bitfusion server in a healthy state.
Procedure
- In the vSphere Client, select .
- On the Settings tab, click Backup/Restore.
- Restore the cluster.
- Click Restore From Download.
- Select a backup file.
- Click Restore From Backup.
Results
The restore operation might need several minutes to complete. During the process, a
Restore in progress notification is displayed in the
Backup/Restore pane.
What to do next
After the operation is completed and the
vSphere Bitfusion plug-in is registered again with
vCenter Server, click the refresh icon (
) to update all data in the current
vSphere Client view.