Array-based: Multiple point-in-time hardware snapshots or rollback is supported by some storage manufacturers. Also, VM software snapshots are replicated to the target site where the snapshot tree is maintained.

vSphere Replication (VR): VR 5.5 introduced Multiple Point In Time (MPIT) recovery. MPIT recovery enables an administrator to recover a VM to the latest replicated copy at the target site and then revert, or “roll back”, that VM to a previous point in time. MPIT recovery points appear as VM software snapshots at the target location. There are no dependencies between VM software snapshots at the source location and recovery points at the target location. VR does not replicate a VM software snapshot hierarchy from the source location to the target location.

VR Point-in-Time snapshots are not supported for configurations where the replication target is a VVOL datastore.