I took much of my instructions from here:
Rubrik instructions on how to make their boot ISO
Rubrik instructions to do the restore
Create an a WindowsPE Boot ISO using the info from the above links. When creating the boot ISO, one will need both the ADK for Windows AND the Windows PE Add-On and also the Rubrik Recovery Tool Install kit. When installing the ADK check all of the features.
Boot the machine from that ISO. Once there make note of the IP, if there is no IP address, assign one.
In Rubrik, find the server to be restored, choose a snapshot to "Mount", choose "No Host" , leave domain, usernames, and AD groups blank, I did put the IP's of a management station and the IP of the WinPE machine.
In Rubrik, go to the "Live Mounts" section, the "Windows Volumes", one should see the server we are working with mounted. Make note of the "Restore Script Path". What Rubrik has done is present a CIFS share that contains a PowerShell script and a VHDX (Hyper-V virtual hard drive). Test this by browsing to the share (make note of the security limitations that were set during the presenting of the snapshot. IE if the snapshot was limited to certain IP's, test the share from a machine having a matching IP.
On the machine to be restored, map the Z-drive to share off of the Rubrik, far as I can tell this is for authentication purposes. Use: "administrator" and no password.
net use z: \\<IP of Rubrik>\<sharename> /user:<winpe_client_ip>\administrator *
On the machine to be restored, the next step is to launch the power shell script that will take the contents of the VHDX and dump it to the hard drive.
Type:
"powershell" then "set-executionPoloicy unrestricted" then "\\<IP of Rubrik>\<sharename>\with_layout\RubrikBMR.ps1
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