HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for VMware - Manual (Page 30)

Promote
Restores the content of the base Volume with the selected Recovery Set. This option is only available
to the datastore level Recovery Set. When you run this operation, access to the base Volume is
temporary removed until the promote operation completes. The entire Virtual Volume is promoted
to the selected point-in-time image.
Update Recovery Manager Cache
Refreshes the current server cache to reflect the changes in vCenter or storage array inventory
objects.
When you select a Recovery Set object from the list, the details pertaining to the object is displayed.
Getting Started tab
Displays information about Recovery Sets.
Summary tab
Shows properties of the Recovery Set object
Manage tab
Shows the list of Virtual Copies and VMDKs that are contained in the set, and allows you to perform
mount, unmount, attach, detach, and detect operations.
Related Objects tab
Shows objects that are related to the Recovery Set.
Creating Recovery Sets
Recovery Set is the snapshot of a Virtual Volume that resides on the HP 3PAR Storage array.
Recovery Manager for VMware supports Recovery Set creation at both VM and datastore levels.
Prior to creating Recovery Sets, ensure that the following conditions are met:
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Creating a Recovery Set at the VM level requires sufficient free space on the datastore where
the VMDK file resides.
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datastore creation from NFS drives is not supported for Recovery Set operations.
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Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere requires VMFS snapshots. However, taking a VMFS
snapshot of a VM participating in disk sharing, such as Microsoft MSCS, is not supported
(this is a VMFS limitation).
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Recovery Manager for VMware supports only one Virtual Volume per datastore.
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The following steps apply only to Virtual Volumes that are not Peer Persistent enabled. If Peer
Persistent is enabled, use the Remote Recovery Configuration page to create new Recovery
Sets.
NOTE: Recovery Set space must be available on the HP 3PAR Virtual Volume. To create a
Recovery Set on an HP 3PAR base volume, the volume must have snapshot space allocated during
its creation.
To create a new Recovery Set on the VM:
1.
Navigate to the home page, and click VMs and Templates.
2. Click the Virtual Machine for which you need to create the Recovery Set.
3. Click Related Objects, and then click Recovery Sets. All the Recovery Sets related to the Virtual
Machine are displayed.
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