Licensing updates: With BlueXP disaster recovery, you can sign up for a 90-day free trial or Bring Your Own License (BYOL), which is a NetApp License File (NLF) that you obtain from your NetApp Sales Rep. You can use the license serial number to get the BYOL activated in BlueXP digital wallet. BlueXP disaster recovery charges are based on provisioned capacity of datastores.

Edit schedules: With this release, you can now set up schedules to test compliance and failover tests so that you ensure that they will work correctly should you need them.

Network enhancement: With this release, you can now resize the VM CPU and RAM values. You can also now select a network DHCP or static IP address for the VM.

Custom scripts can now be included as post failover processes. With custom scripts, you can have BlueXP disaster recovery run your script after a failover process. For example, you can use a custom script to resume all database transactions after the failover is complete.

SnapMirror relationship: You can now create a SnapMirror relationship while developing the replication plan. Previously, you had to create the relationship outside of BlueXP disaster recovery.

Consistency groups: When you create a replication plan, you can include VMs that are from different volumes and different SVMs. BlueXP disaster recovery creates a Consistency Group Snapshot by including all the volumes and updates all the secondary locations.

VM power-on delay option: When you create a replication plan, you can add VMs to a Resource Group. With Resource Groups, you can set a delay on each VM so that they power up on a delayed sequence.

Application-consistent Snapshot copies: You can specify to create application-consistent Snapshot copies. The service will quiesce the application and then take a Snapshot to obtain a consistent state of the application.

With this release, you can access information on other pages from the Dashboard more quickly.

Dashboard updates: You can now click into the options on the Dashboard, making it easier for you to review the information quickly. Also, the Dashboard now shows the status of failovers and migrations.

Replication plan updates:

Resource groups update for boot order: When you create a disaster recovery or replication plan, you can add virtual machines into functional resource groups. Resource groups enable you to put a set of dependent virtual machines into logical groups that meet your requirements. For example, groups could contain boot order that can be executed upon recovery. With this release, each resource group can include one or more virtual machines. The virtual machines will power on based on the sequence in which you include them in the plan. Refer to Select applications to replicate and assign resource groups.

Replication verification: After you create the disaster recovery or replication plan, identify the recurrence in the wizard, and initiate a replication to a disaster recovery site, every 30 minutes BlueXP disaster recovery verifies that the replication is actually occurring according to the plan. You can monitor the progress in the Job Monitor page. Refer to Replicate applications to another site.

Replication plan shows recovery point objective (RPO) transfer schedules: When you create a disaster recovery or replication plan, you select the VMs. In this release, you can now view the SnapMirror associated with each of the volumes that are associated with the datastore or VM. You can also see the RPO transfer schedules that are associated with the SnapMirror schedule. RPO helps you determine whether your backup schedule is enough to recover after a disaster. Refer to Create a replication plan.

Job Monitor update: The Job Monitor page now includes a Refresh option so that you can get an up-to-date status of operations. Refer to Monitor disaster recovery jobs.