1. A method for recovering a production environment which includes one or more virtual data processing infrastructure elements that together comprise one or more logical domains, and where a recovery environment provides a managed recovery service for the virtual infrastructure elements, the method carried out in the recovery environment, comprising: a. receiving one or more data files containing configuration information for the virtual infrastructure elements exported from the production environment; b. instantiating a recovery system for hosting a logical domain of the same type of logical domain as in the production environment; c. configuring one or more local storage devices for the recovery system; d. configuring one or more network interfaces for the recovery system; e. executing a user interface within the recovery system to confirm: i. data files containing the configuration information are available to the recovery system; ii. one or more disks are available for use by the logical domain in the recovery system; iii. a mapping of storage devices reported in the production system data to storage devices configured for the production system; iv. a mapping of network interfaces reported in the production system to network interfaces configured for the recovery system; and f. executing a script file within the recovery system to recover the logical domains.