HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Virtual Infrastructure user's guide (T2558-96095, April 2008)

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z Delete Protection—Select a protection, then click the Delete Protection button to remove
configuration information for the selected protection.
z Start protection—Select a protection, then click the Start button to enable protection for the
protection.
z Stop protection—Select a protection, then click the Stop button to disable protection for the job.
z Failover—Select a protection, then click the Failover button to shut down the source virtual
machine and start the replica virtual machine. A dialog box will appear where you can select
failover options. For more information about when to use each option, see Understanding
failover and job reversal on page 33.
z Reverse protection—Select a protection that has already failed over, then click the Reverse
protection button to start the protection in the reverse order.
The job will start synchronization in the reverse direction. The job name and the log file name
will change accordingly. When the restore completes, the job will be running in the opposite
direction (that is, if the job had originally be running from server
Indy to server Jersey, it will
now be running from server
Jersey to server Indy).
z Undo Failover—Select a protection that has already failed over, then click the Undo Failover
button to undo the failover of the selected protection.
The state will change to Undoing. When the Undo Failover is complete, the job will re-start as
normal.
z View protection errors—Select a protection, then click the View errors button to view the
most recent errors that have been detected for that protection job.
z View protection details—Click this button to show or hide the bottom pane, which shows
protection information for the selected protection job.
NOTE: When you click the Delete Protection button, you will be prompted to either keep
or delete the associated replica virtual machine.
If you no longer want to protect the source and are no longer interested in the target
replica, then select the Delete the associated replica virtual machine option.
If you no longer want to move data from the source to the target but still want to keep
the target replica, then select the Keep the associated replica virtual machine
option. (For instance, you would use this option to de-commission the source and use
the target replica as the production server.) When you select this option, the target
will be preserved and registered (provided that it has been fully synchronized), and
the target virtual machine will appear in VirtualCenter with the name
<source vm
name>_Replica
. If the target is not fully synchronized, related files will be kept on
the target ESX server but will not be registered.
NOTE: If you have previously stopped protection and then click the Start button for that
protection job, Storage Mirroring for Virtual Infrastructure will check to see if the
source ESX server
.vmdk files are the same as the target .vmdk files. If they are the
same, Storage Mirroring for Virtual Infrastructure will resume protection starting with
the Replication cycle, bypassing the synchronization step. If they are not the same
but there is a file on target, Storage Mirroring for Virtual Infrastructure will perform
a difference synchronization.
NOTE: After the initial synchronization has completed, you can use the Stop
button to stop
protection for a job. This allows the end user to perform a manual failover.