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Description of Protection relationships windows and dialog boxes

You can view and manage protection-related details such as resource pools, SVM associations, and protection jobs. You can use the appropriate Health Thresholds page to configure global health threshold values for aggregates, volumes, and relationships.

  • Resource Pools page
    The Resource Pools page displays existing resource pools and their members, and enables you to create, monitor, and manage resource pools for provisioning purposes.
  • Create Resource Pool dialog box
    You can use the Create Resource Pool dialog box to name and describe a new resource pool and to add aggregates to and delete aggregates from that resource pool.
  • Edit Resource Pool dialog box
    You can use the Edit Resource Pool dialog box to change the name and description of an existing resource pool. For example, if the original name and description is inaccurate or incorrect, you can change them so they are more precise.
  • Aggregates dialog box
    You can use the Aggregates dialog box to select the aggregates that you want to add to your resource pool.
  • Storage VM Associations page
    The Storage VM Associations page enables you to view existing SVM associations between source and destination SVMs and to create new SVM associations for use by partner applications to create SnapMirror and SnapVault relationships.
  • Create Storage Virtual Machine Associations wizard
    The Create Storage Virtual Machine Associations wizard enables you to associate source and destination storage virtual machines (SVMs) for use in SnapMirror and SnapVault protection relationships.
  • Jobs page
    The Jobs page enables you to view the current status and other information about all partner application protection jobs that are currently running, as well as jobs that have completed. You can use this information to see which jobs are still running and whether a job has succeeded or failed.
  • Job details page
    The Job details page enables you to view status and other information about specific protection job tasks that are running, that are queued, or that have completed. You can use this information to monitor protection job progress and to troubleshoot job failures.
  • Advanced Secondary Settings dialog box
    You can use the Advanced Secondary Settings dialog box to enable version-flexible replication, multiple copy backup, and space-related settings on a secondary volume. You might use the Advanced Secondary Settings dialog box when you want to change enable or disable the current settings.
  • Advanced Destination Settings dialog box
    You can use the Advanced Destination Settings dialog box to enable space guarantee settings on a destination volume. You might select advanced settings when space guarantee is disabled on the source, but you want it enabled on the destination. The settings for deduplication, compression, and autogrow in a SnapMirror relationship are inherited from the source volume and cannot be changed.
  • Restore dialog box
    You can use the Restore dialog box to restore data to a volume from a specific Snapshot copy.
  • Browse Directories dialog box
    You can use the Browse Directories dialog box when you want to restore data to a directory on a cluster and SVM that is different from the original source. The original source cluster and volume are selected by default.
  • Configure Protection dialog box
    You can use the Configure Protection dialog box to create SnapMirror and SnapVault relationships for all read, write, and data protection volumes on clusters to ensure that the data on a source volume or primary volume is replicated.
  • Create Schedule dialog box
    The Create Schedule dialog box enables you to create a basic or advanced protection schedule for SnapMirror and SnapVault relationship transfers. You might create a new schedule to increase the frequency of data transfers due to frequent data updates, or you might create a less frequent schedule when data changes infrequently.
  • Create SnapMirror Policy dialog box
    The Create SnapMirror Policy dialog box enables you to create a policy to set the priority for SnapMirror transfers. You use policies to maximize the efficiency of transfers from the source to the destination.
  • Create SnapVault Policy dialog box
    The Create SnapVault Policy dialog box enables you to create a policy to set the priority for SnapVault transfers. You use policies to maximize the efficiency of transfers from the primary to the secondary volume.
  • Edit Relationship dialog box
    You can edit an existing protection relationship to change the maximum transfer rate, the protection policy, or the protection schedule.
  • Initialize/Update dialog box
    The Initialize/Update dialog box enables you to perform a first-time baseline transfer on a new protection relationship, or to update a relationship if it is already initialized and you want to perform a manual, unscheduled, incremental update.
  • Resynchronize dialog box
    The Resynchronize dialog box enables you to resynchronize data on a SnapMirror or SnapVault relationship that was previously broken and then the destination was made a read/write volume. You might also resynchronize when a required common Snapshot copy on the source volume is deleted causing SnapMirror or SnapVault updates to fail.
  • Select Source Snapshot Copy dialog box
    You use the Select Source Snapshot Copy dialog box to select a specific Snapshot copy to transfer data between protection relationships, or you select the default behavior, which varies depending on whether you are initializing, updating, or resynchronizing a relationship, and whether the relationship is a SnapMirror or SnapVault.
  • Reverse Resync dialog box
    When you have a protection relationship that is broken because the source volume is disabled and the destination is made a read/write volume, reverse resynchronization enables you to reverse the direction of the relationship so that the destination becomes the new source and the source becomes the new destination.
  • Relationship: All Relationships view
    The Relationship: All Relationships view displays information about protection relationships on the storage system.
  • Relationship: Last 1 month Transfer Status view
    The Relationship: Last 1 month Transfer Status view enables you to analyze the volume transfer trends over a period of time for volumes in asynchronous relationships. This page also displays whether the volume transfer was a success or a failure.
  • Relationship: Last 1 month Transfer Rate view
    The Relationship: Last 1 month Transfer Rate view enables you to analyze the amount of data volume that is transferred on a day-to-day basis for volumes in asynchronous relationships. This page also provides details about daily volume transfers and the time required to complete the transfer operation.