How to Use Cohesity Instant Mass Restore

Cohesity Instant Mass Restore

Traditional data recovery methods, such as relying on tape backups, are slow and cumbersome, as it can take hours or even days to recover data from tapes, during which time the business is effectively paralyzed.

Cohesity Instant Mass Restore addresses the pain points of traditional approaches, building on advanced deduplication and compression algorithms to dramatically reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred and stored during backup and recovery.

Next, use Cohesity Instant Mass Restore to instantly recover the VM from a sudden security event.

How to Recover with Cohesity Instant Mass Restore

Cohesity Instant Mass Restore enables you to instantly access and use data from cloned backups—whether it's volumes, objects, databases, or virtual machines—without the need to move the data. By reducing recovery point objectives (RPOs) to just minutes, it goes beyond traditional service level agreements (SLAs).

1. From Cohesity Dashboard, click Cluster Manager to select the cluster you want to restore.

Note: Ensure that the target host has sufficient resources (e.g., CPU, memory, storage) to run the restored VM.

2. Click Data Protection > Recoveries to open the Recovery Configuration wizard. Select Virtual Machines.

3. Select VMs from the list.

4. Select the backup you want to restore from and make the other selections as shown below.

Those steps are the following:

• Present NFS Datastore to ESX from Cohesity Cluster
• Create new VM from the backup
• Power on VM from the temporary datastore
• Storage vMotion to the primary storage
• Clean up temporary datastore

By eliminating redundant data, Cohesity Instant Mass Restore not only speeds up the recovery process at scale, but also optimizes storage utilization.

After completing the Cohesity instant mass restore process, log in to the restored VM and check if the application can start and run normally and if the data is intact.

Alternative: Free Instant Recovery Tools for Massive Data Recovery

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Effective data protection is crucial for any business. AOMEI Cyber Backup offers several benefits:

• Comprehensive Security: Protects against ransomware and cyber threats, ensuring your backups remain intact and recoverable.
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• Quick Recovery: Its instant recovery options allow businesses to restore data quickly, minimizing downtime during a disaster.

Step 1: Create a VMware ESXi Backup

☞Connect your VMware ESXi, and create a VMware backup for your VMs. You can select full or incremental backups based on your organization’s needs. And schedule automated backups for VM recovery plan.

Step 2: Perform Instant VM Recovery

☞Access the “Instant Recovery” option to restore a VM directly from the backup storage. Click "Task" > "Instant Recovery" > "New Instant Recovery" > "Restore from task".

☞Select recovery content from backup, choose the host and virtual machine and backup version.

☞Select the device to be restored to in "Restore to". Choose the target device.

☞Set the hardware settings for the new virtual machine, such as CPU quantity, CPU Cores and memory size.

☞Type a special name for the new virtual machine.

☞Click "Start Restore" to start the instant restore.

Step 3: Migrate VM

After creating VM instant recovery, start the migration process timely by selecting “Migrate Virtual Machine” from the task menu or details page to resume normal business operation.

AOMEI Cyber Backup offers a competitive edge in VM backup and recovery. Its instant VM recovery feature minimizes potential financial losses due to prolonged downtime, making it ideal for businesses of all sizes.

FAQs about Cohesity Mass Recovery

What makes Cohesity Instant Mass Restore different from other recovery solutions?

Cohesity instant mass restore has two key steps that differentiate it from other solutions. One is presenting the storage to ESX, which is the storage running in the Cohesity cluster and can apply QoS. While other solutions present NFS mount points and can run on any device, mostly placing the files on a device outside the backup system, with no control over the quality of service when backing up the VMs, Cohesity presents the ESX back to the ESX using its own filesystems, and also leverages the ESX network with individual VLAN optimizations (more on this later). (more on this in a separate article).

Secondly, in the penultimate step of the list, Cohesity automates the storage vMotion migration process to primary storage, eliminating the need for manual scripting or other user actions and radically simplifying the process to provide a complete solution.

Can Cohesity Instant Mass Restore be used for database recovery?

Yes, it can quickly restore database environments like Oracle, SQL Server, and other critical enterprise applications.

How scalable is Cohesity Instant Mass Restore?

Cohesity Instant Mass Restore scales with your data growth, supporting large volumes of data and enterprise-scale environments with ease.

Conclusion

Whether you're protecting virtual environments, applications or massive data repositories, Cohesity Instant Mass Restore enables organizations to respond quickly and effectively to data loss events thanks to its speed, scalability and simplicity.

With AOMEI Cyber Backup, businesses can ensure their data is protected against evolving threats, recover quickly from disasters, and maintain seamless operations. This solution works well alongside tools like Cohesity Instant Mass Restore, giving organizations the best of both worlds—fast, reliable restores combined with comprehensive data