HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for VMware - Manual (Page 17)

The Recovery Set browser
NOTE: You must have an HP 3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere license in order to
use the Recovery Set browser.
In Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere, every Recovery Set, VM, or Datastore has its own
metadata, which is used in instances where a restoration is necessary. Metadata is kept in a local
file system of the server.
Figure 1 Recovery Set browser
A Recovery Set of a VM or Datastore has the following properties:
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The Recovery Set creation time.
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The HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage system where Recovery Set volumes exist.
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The Recovery Set name (optional).
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The number of Recovery Set volumes in the Recovery Set.
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A list of pairs (source volume, Recovery Set volume). Each pair can have a list of virtual disks
and/or VM names.
All Recovery Sets are organized in the browser based on their creation times. The browser displays
all relevant metadata so that you can make restore decisions faster and without actually mounting
Recovery Set volumes.
The data shown in the Recovery Set browser comes from the metadata repository and may not
reflect the current state of HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage system. It is possible that volumes shown in
the browser may not exist in the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage system; for example, if a volume is
deleted.
VMFS snapshots
In order to maintain a VM consistent Recovery Set, a VMFS snapshot will be created before creating
an HP 3PAR Recovery Set and the VMFS copy will be deleted when the HP 3PAR Recovery Set is
created. HP 3PAR Recovery Sets and VMFS snapshots cannot coexist. HP 3PAR Recovery Set
creation in VM, Datastore, or Remote Copy will fail if there are preexisting VMFS snapshots for
the VM.
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