Select Monitor protection from the left pane of the console. The Monitor protection page allows you to view information about your connections. You can also manage your connections from this page.
The top pane displays high-level overview information about your connections.
| Column | Description |
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| Name | The name of the connection |
| Status | A description of the current status of the protection |
| Bytes Pending | The remaining amount of data (.vmdk files plus snapshot files) that needs to be transmitted |
| Remaining Interval | The amount of time until the next replication cycle |
When the View protection details button in the toolbar is toggled on, the bottom pane displays detailed connection information.
| Section | Status Item | Description |
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| Source | Virtual Disk | A list of the virtual disks being protected |
| Snapshot Data Size | The size of the snapshot of each virtual disk | |
| Last Modified | The last time the snapshot was updated | |
| Virtual machine name | The name of the virtual machine that contains the virtual disk being protected | |
| Snapshot datastore | The name of the datastore on the source storing the snapshot data | |
| Free space | The amount of free space on the source snapshot datastore | |
| Target | Virtual machine name | The name of the target replica virtual machine |
| Datastore | The name of the target datastore | |
| Free space | The amount of free space on the target datastore | |
| Last replication | The last time snapshot files were replicated to the target | |
| Last synchronization | The last time .vmdk files were mirrored to the target |
The connection controls are available in the toolbar of the Monitor protection page.
| Toolbar Item | Description |
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Opens the Protection Summary page allowing you to modify some protection settings. |
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Deletes the selected protection. You will be prompted to keep or delete the associated replica virtual machine on the target. If you do not need the replica on the target, you can delete it. However, if you want to keep the replica on the target, for example, if you want to being using the replica on the target as the production server, you can keep the replica. In this case, the replica will be preserved and registered (as long as the initial mirror has completed) allowing the virtual machine to be available in VirtualCenter. If the initial mirror has not completed, the files will be available on the target ESX server but will not be registered. |
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Starts protection |
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Stops protection |
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Initiates failover by stopping the virtual machine on the source and starting the replica virtual machine on the target |
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Initiate reverse protection by mirroring and replicating from the replica virtual machine on the target to the virtual machine on the source |
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Initiate undo failover to reset the virtual machines and the protection job back to the original state |
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View errors for the selected protection |
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View details for the selected protection |
Overview connection information displayed in the top pane
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