Managing and controlling full server to ESX appliance jobs

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

 

Column 1 (Blank)

The first blank column indicates the state of the job.

The job is in a healthy state.

The job is in a warning state. This icon is also displayed on any server groups that you have created that contain a job in a warning state.

The job is in an error state. This icon is also displayed on any server groups that you have created that contain a job in an error state.

 The job is in an unknown state.

Job

The name of the job

Source Server

The name of the source. This could be the name or IP address of your source.

Target Server

The name of the target. This could be the name or IP address of your target.

Job Type

Each job type has a unique job type name. This job is a Full Server to ESX Appliance job. For a complete list of all job type names, press F1 to view the Double-Take Console online help.

Activity

There are many different Activity messages that keep you informed of the job activity. Most of the activity messages are informational and do not require any administrator interaction. If you see error messages, check the job details. Keep in mind that Idle indicates console to server activity is idle, not that your servers are idle.

Mirror Status

• Calculating—The amount of data to be mirrored is being calculated.
• In Progress—Data is currently being mirrored.
• 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.
• 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

• Active—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.

 

The details displayed in the bottom pane of the Manage Jobs page provide additional information for the job highlighted in the top pane. If you select multiple jobs, the details for the first selected job will be displayed.

 

Name

The name of the job

Target data state

• OK—The data on the target is in a good state.
• Mirroring—The target is in the middle of a mirror process. The data will not be in a good state until the mirror is complete.
• Mirror Required—The data on the target is not in a good state because a remirror is required. This may be caused by an incomplete or stopped mirror or an operation may have been dropped on the target.
• Busy—The source is low on memory causing a delay in getting the state of the data on the target.
• Not Loaded—Double-Take target functionality is not loaded on the target server. This may be caused by an activation code error.
• Not Ready—The Linux drivers have not yet completed loading on the target.
• Unknown—The console cannot determine the status.

Mirror remaining

The total number of mirror bytes that are remaining to be sent from the source to the target

Mirror skipped

The total number of bytes that have been skipped when performing a difference or checksum mirror. These bytes are skipped because the data is not different on the source and target.

Replication queue

The total number of replication bytes in the source queue

Disk queue

The amount of disk space being used to queue data on the source

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 job was made. This field is blank, indicating that a TCP/IP socket is not present, when the job 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.

Recent activity

Displays the most recent activity for the selected job, along with an icon indicating the success or failure of the last initiated activity. Click the link to see a list of recent activities for the selected job. You can highlight an activity in the list to display additional details about the activity.

Additional information

Depending on the current state of your job, you may see additional information displayed to keep you informed about the progress and status of your job. If there is no additional information, you will see (None) displayed.

 

You can control your job through the toolbar buttons available on the Manage jobs page. If you select multiple jobs, some of the controls will apply only to the first selected job, while others will apply to all of the selected jobs. For example, View Job Details will only show details for the first selected job, while Stop will stop protection for all of the selected jobs.

If you want to control just one job, you can also right click on that job and access the controls from the pop-up menu.

 

Create a New Job

This button leaves the Manage Jobs page and opens the Get Started page.

View Job Details

This button leaves the Manage Jobs page and opens the View Job Details page.

Delete

Stops (if running) and deletes the selected jobs.

If you no longer want to protect the source and no longer need the replica of the source on the target, select to delete the associated replica virtual machine. Selecting this option will remove the job 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 to keep the associated replica virtual machine.

Provide Credentials

Changes the login credentials that the job (which is on the target machine) uses to authenticate to the servers in the job. This button opens the Provide Credentials dialog box where you can specify the new account information and which servers you want to update. See Providing server credentials. You will remain on the Manage Jobs page after updating the server credentials. If your servers use the same credentials, make sure you also update the credentials on the Manage Servers page so that the Double-Take Console can authenticate to the servers in the console session. See Managing servers.

View Recent Activity

Displays the recent activity list for the selected job. Highlight an activity in the list to display additional details about the activity.

Start

Starts or resumes the selected jobs.

If you have previously stopped protection, the job will restart mirroring and replication.

If you have previously paused protection, the job will continue mirroring and replication from where it left off, as long as the Double-Take queue was not exhausted during the time the job was paused. If the Double-Take queue was exhausted during the time the job was paused, the job will restart mirroring and replication.

Also if you have previously paused protection, all jobs from the same source to the same IP address on the target will be resumed.

Pause

Pauses the selected jobs. Data will be queued on the source while the job is paused.

All jobs from the same source to the same IP address on the target will be paused.

Stop

Stops the selected jobs. The jobs remain available in the console, but there will be no mirroring or replication data transmitted from the source to the target. Mirroring and replication data will not be queued on the source while the job is stopped, requiring a remirror when the job is restarted. The type of remirror will depend on your job settings.

Take Snapshot

Snapshots are not applicable to full server to ESX appliance jobs.

Manage Snapshots

Snapshots are not applicable to full server to ESX appliance jobs.

Failover or Cutover

Starts the failover process. See Failing over full server to ESX appliance jobs for the process and details of failing over a full server to ESX appliance job.

Failback

Starts the failback process. Failback does not apply to full server to ESX appliance jobs.

Restore

Starts the restoration process. Restore does not apply to full server to ESX appliance jobs.

Reverse

Reverses protection. Reverse protection does not apply to full server to ESX appliance jobs.

Undo Failover

Cancels a test failover by undoing it. Undo failover does not apply to full server to ESX appliance jobs.

View Job Log

Opens the job log. On the right-click menu, this option is called View Logs, and you have the option of opening the job log, source server log, or target server log. See Viewing the log files through the Double-Take Console for details on all three of these logs.

Other Job Actions

Opens a small menu of other job actions. These job actions are not available for full server to ESX appliance jobs.

Filter

Select a filter option from the drop-down list to only display certain jobs. You can display Healthy jobs, Jobs with warnings, or Jobs with errors. To clear the filter, select All jobs. If you have created and populated server groups, then the filter will only apply to the jobs associated with the server or target servers in that server group. See Managing servers.

Type a server name

Displays only jobs that contain the text you entered. If you have created and populated server groups, then only jobs that contain the text you entered associated with the server or target servers in that server group will be displayed. See Managing servers.

Overflow Chevron

Displays any toolbar buttons that are hidden from view when the window size is reduced.