Instance Recovery Guide

Recovering a
VMware Cloud Foundation
system by performing a complete reconstruction from a backup.
This document provides detailed instructions on recovering an entire
VMware Cloud Foundation
system, including the management domain and VI workload domains, where you must recover all components.

Example Failure Scenarios

The cases when you must recover all components in a
VMware Cloud Foundation
instance might be one of the following:
  • Complete site failure
  • Recovery from a malware or ransomware attack
  • Catastrophic logical corruption

Intended Audience

VMware Cloud Foundation Instance Recovery Guide
is intended for cloud architects, cloud administrators, and cloud operators who are familiar with and want to recover a
VMware Cloud Foundation
system that has experienced a significant failure.

Related
VMware Cloud Foundation
Documentation

In addition to this documentation, the following publications for the
VMware Cloud Foundation
version in your environment must be available during the recovery process:
  • VMware Cloud Foundation
    Deployment Guide
  • VMware Cloud Foundation
    Administration Guide
You can open these documents from the VMware Cloud Foundation Documentation main page.