Recovery of a software-defined data center from persistent entity stores for virtual machines

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform stages for backing up and recovering a software-defined data center (“SDDC”), the stages comprising:

• changing, by a controller of the SDDC, a state of a virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine updates an entity store to include the state, wherein the entity store corresponds to the virtual machine and persists with the virtual machine to reflect the state;
• upon a failure of the controller, restoring the controller from a backup record, wherein the backup record was created prior to changing the state of the virtual machine;
• requesting a list of virtual machines from a host, wherein the list includes the virtual machine;
• and
• when the virtual machine is not reflected in the backup record, updating the controller to include the virtual machine and the state of the virtual machine, wherein the state of the virtual machine is returned to the controller from the entity store.

A system for backing up and recovering a software-defined data center (“SDDC”), comprising:

• a non-transitory, computer-readable medium containing instructions;
• and
• a processor that executes the monitoring module to perform stages comprising:
• changing, by a controller of the SDDC, a state of a virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine updates an entity store to include the changed state, and wherein the entity store persists with the virtual machine to reflect the state;
• upon a failure of the controller, restoring the controller from a backup record of a controller database;
• receiving a list of virtual machines from a host, wherein the list includes the-virtual machine;
• and
• when the backup record does not include the virtual machine, updating the controller database to include the virtual machine and the state of the virtual machine, wherein the state of the virtual machine is retrieved from the entity store.