Monitoring virtual workloads in the Double-Take Console

Click Monitor Connections from the main Double-Take Console toolbar. The Monitor Connections page allows you to view information about your connections. You can also manage your connections from this page.

Overview connection information displayed in the top pane

The top pane displays high-level overview information about your connections.

Column 1 (Blank)

The first blank column indicates the state of the connection.

The connection is in a healthy state.

The connection is in a warning state.

The connection is in an error state.

The connection is in an unknown state.

Connection

The name of the connection

Source Server

The name of the source. This could be a name or IP address of a standalone server, a cluster, or a node. Cluster connections will be associated with the cluster name and standalone jobs will be associated with a standalone server or a cluster node.

Target Server

The name of the target

Replication Set

The name of the replication set

Activity

There are many different Activity messages that keep you informed of the connection activity. Most of the activity messages are informational and do not require any administrator interaction. If you see error messages, check the connection details.

Mirror Status

Calculating—The amount of data to be mirrored is being calculated.
Mirroring—If the amount of data to be mirrored has not been calculated and data is actively being mirrored to the target, the Mirror Status will indicate Mirroring.
Percentage Complete—If the amount of data to be mirrored has been calculated and data is actively being mirrored to the target, the Mirror Status will display the percentage of data that has been sent.
Waiting—Mirroring is complete, but data is still being written to the target.
Idle—Data is not being mirrored.
Paused—Mirroring has been paused.
Stopped—Mirroring has been stopped.
Removing Orphans—Orphan files on the target are being removed or deleted depending on the configuration.
Verifying—Data is being verified between the source and target.
Restoring—Data is being restored from the target to the source.
Archiving—Data is being archived or an archive report is being run.
Unknown—The console cannot determine the status.

Replication Status

Replicating—Data is being replicated to the target.
Ready—There is no data to replicate.
Pending—Replication is pending.
Stopped—Replication has been stopped.
Out of Memory—Replication memory has been exhausted.
Failed—The Double-Take service is not receiving replication operations from the Double-Take driver. Check the Event Viewer for driver related issues.
Unknown—The console cannot determine the status.

Transmit Mode

Started—Data is being transmitted to the target.
Paused—Data transmission has been paused.
Scheduled—Data transmission is waiting on schedule criteria.
Stopped—Data is not being transmitted to the target.
Error—There is a transmission error.
Unknown—The console cannot determine the status.

Filtering the connections displayed in the top pane

You can filter the connections displayed in the top pane using the toolbar buttons in that pane.

View Connection Details

Leave the Monitor Connections page and open the View Connection Details page

Filter

Select a filter option from the drop-down list to only display certain connections. You can display Healthy Connections, Connections with warnings, or Connections with errors. To clear the filter, select All connections.

View Connections with Warnings

Display only connections with warnings

View Connections with Errors

Display only connections with errors

Type a server name

Only those servers that contain the entered text will be displayed

Detailed connection information displayed in the bottom pane

The details displayed in the bottom pane of the Monitor Connections page will depend on the type of protection workload that is highlighted in the top pane.

Name

The name of the server

Activity

Source server

The name of the source

Target server

The name of the target

Bytes sent

The total number of mirror and replication bytes that have been transmitted to the target

Bytes sent compressed

The total number of compressed mirror and replication bytes that have been transmitted to the target. If compression is disabled, this statistic will be the same as Bytes sent.

Connected since

The date and time indicating when the current connection was made. This field is blank, indicating that a TCP/IP socket is not present, when the connection is waiting on transmit options or if the transmission has been stopped. This field will maintain the date and time, indicating that a TCP/IP socket is present, when transmission has been paused.

Protection type

The type of workload protection

Hypervisor

The type of target virtual server host

Protection status

The status of the workload protection

Protected volumes

The volumes that are being protected

Target datastore or Target path

The location on the target where the source replica is being stored

Automatic failover

Indicates if failover will be automatic and the number of retries that have been attempted if the source is unresponsive

Connection controls available in the bottom pane

The connection controls available in the bottom pane of the Monitor Connections page will depend on the type of protection workload that is highlighted in the top pane.

Configure

Opens the Protection Summary page

Delete

Removes configuration information for the selected connection

If you no longer want to protect the source and no longer need the replica of the source on the target, select the appropriate delete option when prompted. The option name will vary depending on your workload type. Selecting this option will remove the connection and completely delete the replica virtual machine on the target.

If you no longer want to mirror and replicate data from the source to the target but still want to keep the replica of the source on the target, select the appropriate keep option when prompted. The option name will vary depending on the your workload type. For example, you may want to use this option to relocate the virtual hard disks and create a new job between the original source and the new location. Selecting this option, will preserve and register the source replica on the target, provided it has been fully synchronized. If the source replica is not fully synchronized, related files will be kept on the target but will not be registered.

Start protection

Enables protection for the selected connection

If you have previously stopped protection, the virtual hard disks on the target will be checked. If they are the same as the source, replication only (no mirroring) will begin. If they are not the same but there is a file on the target, a difference mirror will begin.

If you have previously paused protection, the protection job will resume where it left off.

Pause protection

Pause the selected connection

Stop protection

Stops the selected connection

Failover

Initiate failover by shutting down the source and starting the replica of the source on the target

Undo Failover

For some workload types, you can undo failover after it has occurred. This resets the servers and the job back to their original state.

Reverse protection

For some workload types, you can reverse the protection. The connection will start mirroring in the reverse direction with the connection name and log file names changing accordingly. After the mirror is complete, the job will continue running in the opposite direction.

View protection error

Displays the most recent error associated with the selected connection