Select Monitor protection from the left pane of the console. The Monitor protection page allows you to view information about your ESX to ESX jobs. You can also manage your jobs from this page.
The job controls are available in the toolbar of the Monitor protection page.
—Opens the Protection Summary page allowing you to modify some protection settings.
—Deletes the selected connection. 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.
—Starts protection
—Stops protection
—Initiates failover by stopping the virtual machine on the source and starting the replica virtual machine on the target
—Initiate reverse protection by mirroring and replicating from the replica virtual machine on the target to the virtual machine on the source
—Initiate undo failover to reset the virtual machines and the protection job back to the original state
Overview job information displayed in the top pane
—Opens the Protection Summary page allowing you to modify some protection settings.
—Deletes the selected connection. 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.
—Starts protection
—Stops protection
—Initiates failover by stopping the virtual machine on the source and starting the replica virtual machine on the target
—Initiate reverse protection by mirroring and replicating from the replica virtual machine on the target to the virtual machine on the source
—Initiate undo failover to reset the virtual machines and the protection job back to the original state
—View errors for the selected connection
—View details for the selected connection