Protection

The Protection tab provides you with a detailed view on the available recovery points for the recovery group. Furthermore, it provides you with the capability to run a test recovery using a specific recovery point or to activate a recovery plan for a recovery.

Assign a new clean room profile to a recovery group

To assign a new clean room profile to a recovery group, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Recovery plan dashboard, go to the clean room profile section and click the pen symbol.

  2. In the pop-up window, review the list of available clean room profiles and select the clean room profile that you want to associate with the recovery group.

  3. In the pop-up window, click the Save button.

Assign a new governance profile to a recovery group

To assign a new governance profile to a recovery group, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Recovery plan dashboard, go to the governance profile section and click the pen symbol.

  2. In the pop-up window, review the list of available governance profiles and select the governance profile that you want to associate with the recovery group.

  3. In the pop-up window, click the Save button.

Note: Updating the governance profile of a recovery group causes a new validation of the recovery plan. A recovery plan that was valid before, can become invalid or vice versa.

Initiate the test of a recovery point

If you test a recovery point, a test recovery of the recovery group is initiated.

To initiate the test of a recovery point, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Recovery plan dashboard, go to the Recovery Points section.

  2. Scroll the list to the recovery point of interest.
    Note: You can use the search bar to search for a specific time or filter the list for specific states of a recovery plan.

  3. Open the context menu in the right side and select Test recovery point.

  4. After the recovery is finished, the recovery point used changes the status to Awaiting validation. You can perform a validation of the recovery point now.

Initiate the activation of a recovery point

If you activate a recovery point, a test recovery of the recovery group is initiated.

To initiate the activation of a recovery point, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Recovery plan dashboard, go to the Recovery Points section.

  2. Scroll the list to the recovery point of interest.
    Note: You can use the search bar to search for a specific time or filter the list for specific states of a recovery plan.

  3. Open the context menu in the right side and select Activate recovery point. This action opens a pop-up window.

  4. In the pop-up window, select a recovery point that you want to activate.

  5. Click the Next button.

  6. Select a clean room profile that you want to use for the recovery.

  7. Click the Next button.

  8. Review the planned recovery process.

  9. Click the Recover button.

  10. After the recovery is finished, the recovery point used changes the status to Awaiting validation. You can perform a validation of the recovery point now.

Initiate the validation of a recovery point

If you validate a recovery point after the manual test recovery or the manual activate recovery process, the recovery point is marked with the result. This information helps you when you want to use the recovery point for a recovery later.

The validation process implements two options:

  • The validation after the manual test recovery – This process will not change the resources of the Recovery Group, but will mark the recovery point for you to simplify later to find a valid recovery point.

  • The validation after the activate recovery point process – In this process IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service assumes that the former resources are no longer usable and removes it from the Recovery Group. You can add the new resources that exist after the recovery to the Recovery Group after the validation.

Note: Ensure that you copy the resource information that is displayed as part of the validation process. You will need this information to find the recovered resources in the vCenter for renaming or removal.

The following figure illustrates the validation process:

To initiate the validation of a recovery point after manual test recovery, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Recovery Plan dashboard, go to the Recovery Points section.

  2. Choose the recovery point of interest from the list.
    Tip: You can use the search bar to search for a specific time or filter the list for specific states of a recovery plan.

  3. Open the context menu from the panel in the right side and select Validate. This action opens a pop-up window.

  4. In the pop-up window, select the Test Only button.

  5. In the next step, you can specify if the recovery point is valid or not valid.
    Note: Ensure that you copy the resource information.

  6. Click the Yes button to confirm the recovery point is valid.

  7. After the validation is finished, the recovery point will be in the Valid or Not valid status.
    Note: IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service does not remove the recovered resources from the vCenter automatically. To remove the resources from the vCenter, see section Clean up vCenter after Recovery below.
To initiate the validation of a recovery point after activate recovery plan, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Recovery Plan dashboard, go to the Recovery Points section.

  2. Choose the recovery point of interest from the list.
    Note: You can use the search bar to search for a specific time or filter the list for specific states of a recovery plan.

  3. Open the context menu from the panel in the right side and select Validate. This action opens a pop-up window.

  4. In the pop-up window, select the Recovery Plan button.

  5. In the next step, you can specify if the recovery point is valid or not valid.
    Note: Ensure that you copy the resource information.

  6. Click the Yes button to confirm the recovery point is valid.

  7. After the validation is finished, the recovery point will be in the Valid or Not valid status.
    Note: If you have defined that the recover point is valid, the original resources are removed from the Recovery Group. Optionally, you can rename the recovered resources in the vCenter that you used for the recovery. You can add the recovered resources to the same Recovery Group again.

Clean up after Safeguarded Copy recovery

If you initiate the clean up after Safeguarded Copy recovery, the virtual machines created for the recovery, the datastore, and the clone created on the IBM Storage FlashSystem is cleaned up automatically.

To initiate the test of a recovery point, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Recovery plan dashboard, go to the Protection section. In this section, click on the tab Recovery Points.

  2. For the recovery point that you validated, click on the overflow menu.

  3. Click the Cleanup button.

The cleanup process gets initiated and the process removes the virtual machines from the vCenter. Furthermore, it removes the host mapping of the snapshot clone and removes the clone from the IBM Storage FlashSystem.

Clean up vCenter after Recovery

To locate the recovered virtual machine in the vCenter, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to the vCenter that was defined in the clean room profile. The clean room profile is the one that is used for the Recovery Group that is activated.

  2. In the Search bar, enter the date by when the Recovery Plan is activated in the format: YYYYMMDD.

    1. The vCenter user interface lists all the virtual machines that have the date in the name.

    2. The virtual machines that were recovered with the Data Resiliency Service uses the original virtual machine's name with the prefix IBM_ and the postfix _YYYYMMDDhhmmss.

  3. Identify one of the virtual machines that belong to the Recovery Group that is recovered. Click on this virtual machine.

    1. The vCenter user interface opens the browser view of the folder structure that contains the virtual machine that you identified.

    2. The folders are created automatically when the recovery of the Recovery Group is performed.

    3. Each folder contains all the virtual machines that are part of the Recovery Group.

To cleanup the recovered virtual machines in the vCenter, complete the following steps:

  1. Locate the recovered virtual machines.

  2. Shutdown the virtual machines that you want to remove from the vCenter.

  3. Use the vCenter functionality to remove the virtual machines from the vCenter.

  4. If you remove all virtual machines from the containing folder, you can remove the folder from the vCenter by using the vCenter functionality.