Using Vmware Data Recovery without Vcenter

Hello

I am lead to believe that you can use VDR to restore backups without Vcenter server. Since my Vcenter server is Virtualised in a DR scenario I would need to recover this backup using VDR.

Can this be done if so how?

I have set up an ESX machine and installed the plugin and deployed the appliance but I cant connect to the appliance in the Vmware Client.

Thanks