You must install the branch recovery agent on each VM for which you want the benefit of the branch recovery feature. You must have administrative privileges to perform the installation. After the installation, the agent starts to monitor I/O operations and records the activity into designated files.

When recovering a branch from a disaster, you must enable branch recovery for the LUN. For VMFS LUNs, you can enable branch recovery for all the VMs on the LUN, or pick and choose specific VMs on which you want the feature enabled.

You must disable the branch recovery feature prior to configuration changes. If you want to add or remove any VMs from the configurations, follow these steps:

You can choose a start time for branch recovery. This option enables you to control bandwidth usage and to choose the best time to start the recovery when you restore branches. For example, you can choose to schedule the recovery during the night, when the least amount of bandwidth is being used. In addition, you can set a cap (that is a percentage of the total disk size) for the amount of data that is pushed per (virtual) disk.

You can configure branch recovery in the Management Console and in the CLI. In the Management Console, choose Configure > Manage: LUNs, and select the Branch Recovery tab on the desired LUN.