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Manage sites, resource groups, replication plans, datastores and virtual machines information with NetApp Disaster Recovery

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NetApp Disaster Recovery provides overviews and more detailed perspectives into all of your resources:

  • Sites

  • Resource groups

  • Replication plans

  • Datastores

  • Virtual machines

Tasks require different NetApp Console roles. For details, see the Required NetApp Console role section in each task.

Learn about user roles and permissions in NetApp Disaster Recovery.
Learn about NetApp Console access roles for all services.

Manage vCenter sites

You can edit the vCenter site name and the site type (on-premises or AWS).

Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, or Disaster recovery admin role.

Steps

  1. From the menu, select Sites.

  2. Select the Actions option Actions menu icon in NetApp Disaster Recovery service on the right of the vCenter name and select Edit.

  3. Edit the vCenter site name and location.

Manage resource groups

You can create resource groups by VMs or datastores. They can be added when you create the replication plan or after.

Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Disaster recovery admin, or Disaster recovery application admin role.

You can create a resource group by datastores in the following ways:

  • When you're adding a resource group using datastores, you can see a list of datastores. You can select one or more datastores to create a resource group.

  • When you're creating a replication plan and creating a resource group within the plan, you can see the VMs in the datastores.

You can perform the following tasks with resource groups:

  • Change the resource group name.

  • Add VMs to the resource group.

  • Remove VMs from the resource group.

  • Delete resource groups.

For details about creating a resource group, refer to Create a resource group to organize VMs together.

Steps

  1. From the menu, select Resource groups.

  2. To add a resource group, select Add group.

  3. You can modify or delete the resource group by selecting the Actions option Actions menu icon in NetApp Disaster Recovery service.

Manage replication plans

You can disable, enable and delete replication plans. You can change schedules.

Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Disaster recovery admin, Disaster recovery failover admin, or Disaster recovery application admin role.

  • If you want to pause a replication plan temporarily, you can disable it and later enable it.

  • If you no longer need the plan, you can delete it.

Steps

  1. From the menu, select Replication plans.

    Replication plan list

  2. To view the plan details, select the Actions option Actions menu icon in NetApp Disaster Recovery service and select View plan details.

  3. Do any of the following:

    • To edit the plan details (change the recurrence), select the Plan details tab and select the Edit icon to the right.

    • To edit the resource mappings, select the Failover mapping tab and select the Edit icon.

    • To add or edit the virtual machines, select the Virtual machines tab and select the Add VMs option or Edit icon.

  4. Return to the list of plans by selecting "Replication plans" in the breadcrumbs at the left.

  5. To perform actions with the plan, from the list of replication plans, select the Actions option Actions menu icon in NetApp Disaster Recovery service to the right of the plan and select any of the options, such as Edit schedules, Test failover, Fail over, Fail back, Migrate, Take snapshot now, Clean up old snapshots, Disable, Enable, or Delete.

  6. To set or change a test failover schedule or set the compliance frequency check, select the Actions option Actions menu icon in NetApp Disaster Recovery service to the right of the plan and select Edit schedules.

    1. In the Edit schedules page, enter how often in minutes you want the failover compliance check to occur.

    2. Check Run test failovers on a schedule.

    3. In the Repeat option, select the daily, weekly, or monthly schedule.

    4. Select Save.

Reconcile snapshots on demand

Disaster Recovery automatically deletes snapshots on the source every 24 hours. If you discover that snapshots are out of sync between the source and destination, you need to resolve the discrepancy between the snapshots to ensure consistency across sites.

Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Disaster recovery admin, Disaster recovery failover admin, or Disaster recovery application admin role.

Steps

  1. From the menu, select Replication plans.

    Replication plan list

  2. From the list of replication plans, select the Actions option Actions menu icon in NetApp Disaster Recovery service then Reconcile snapshots.

  3. Review the reconciliation information.

  4. Select Reconcile.

Delete a replication plan

If you delete a replication plan, you can also delete the primary and secondary snapshots created by the plan.

Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Disaster recovery admin, Disaster recovery failover admin, or Disaster recovery application admin role.

Steps

  1. From the menu, select Replication plans.

  2. Select the Actions option Actions menu icon in NetApp Disaster Recovery service to the right of the plan and select Delete.

  3. Select whether you want to delete the primary snapshots, secondary snapshots, or only the metadata created by the plan.

  4. Enter "delete" to confirm the deletion.

  5. Select Delete.

Change retention count for failover schedules

Changing the retention count enables you to increase or decrease the number of datastore saved.

Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Disaster recovery admin, Disaster recovery failover admin, or Disaster recovery application admin role.

Steps

  1. From the menu, select Replication plans.

  2. Select the replication plan then the Failover mapping tab.Select the Edit pencil icon.

  3. Select the down arrow in the Datastores row to expand it.

    Edit failover mappings page

  4. Change the value of the Retention count for all datastores.

  5. With the replication plan selected, select the Actions menu, then select Clean up old snapshots to remove old snapshots on the target to match the new retention count.

View datastores information

You can view information about how many datastores exist on the source and on the target.

Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Disaster recovery admin, Disaster recovery failover admin, Disaster recovery application admin, or Disaster recovery viewer role.

Steps

  1. From the menu, select Dashboard.

  2. Select the vCenter in the site row.

  3. Select Datastores.

  4. View the datastores information.

View virtual machines information

You can view information about how many virtual machines exist on the source and on the target along with CPU, memory, and available capacity.

Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Disaster recovery admin, Disaster recovery failover admin, Disaster recovery application admin, or Disaster recovery viewer role.

Steps

  1. From the menu, select Dashboard.

  2. Select the vCenter in the site row.

  3. Select Virtual machines.

  4. View the virtual machines information.