Data Protection Plan Management

After you have successfully created a protection plan, the Oracle MaxRep for SAN GUI displays the Manage Protection Plan page. This page allows you to view details about the protection plan, check its status, and modify and delete the plan.

Protection

To navigate to the Manage Protection Plan page, choose Protect > Oracle Storage > Manage Protection Plan.

The Protection table displays information about the protection plan and provides actions that allow you to manage the protection plan properties:

Display all the protection plans.
Add protection to an already completed plan.
Create a recovery scenario for an existing protection plan.
Manage the consistency policy of a protection plan.
Modify a protection plan.
Delete a protection plan.
Edit the name of a protection plan.
View the summary of a protection plan.
Activate and deactivate a protection plan.
Reactivate a plan.
Check the current state of a protection plan.

The following buttons allow you to modify the protection plan:

Add Protection

Creates protection plans from one or more source LUNs.

You create a one‑to‑many protection plan when you take any of these actions on an existing plan:

Add another secondary Oracle FS System.
Add a target LUN on an existing secondary Oracle FS System.

Create Recovery Scenario

Defines the type of recovery scenario for the protection plan. The available scenarios include:

Create Rollback Scenario: Allows you to manage the target LUNs that are write protected during replication.
Create Data Validation and Backup: Allows you to manage the virtual and physical backups of your data.

Manage Consistency Policy

Allows you to create a new application consistency policy and run it or to manage an existing application consistency policy.

Plan Details

Displays an overview of the protection plan settings and replication health.

The Protection table shows the following details about the protection plan:

Protection Type

Displays the type of protection chosen for the protection plan.

Servers

Displays the Replication Engines that are part of protection plan.

Application

Displays the chosen application for the protection plan.

Action

Provides the following protection plan operations:

Summary

Provides a read-only summary of the protection plan. After reviewing the summary, click Back to return to the Manage Protection Plan page.

Activate

Activates the protection plan.

You can also review the protection plan options and run a readiness check.

From the Manage Protection Plan page you can also activate or reactivate a failed protection plan. Prompts on the page allow you to resolve specific problems with a failed protection plan.

Modify

Allows you to make changes to the protection plan. When you click Modify, a dialog displays the following options:

Modify Replication Options

Allows you to modify the protection plan replication options.

Modify Retention Policy

Allows you to specify retention policies for the protection plan.

The retention storage path cannot be altered for a protection plan that is backing up data.

Pause/Resume Protection

Allows you to pause, resume, or restart the protection plan.

Restart Resync

Allows you to start data protection after the replication has stopped.

If during the protection plan creation process, you selected a secondary Oracle FS System, but did not complete all of the fields in the protection plan, the Modify action provides the following protection plan states.

Create Incomplete

Indicates that the protection plan is incomplete. Selecting the link allows you to edit the protection plan starting with the last incomplete field.

Inactive

Indicates that the protection plan is complete, but not active. Selecting this link allows you to edit all of the protection plan.

Active

Indicates that the protection plan is complete, and active.

Selecting this link allows you to edit the protection plan, however, you cannot select a new primary Oracle FS System, or modify the retention storage path.

Delete

Allows you to view a protection plan or a protection scenario for deletion. Deleting a protection scenario also deletes any replication pairs managed by the protection plan. This option also allows you to purge the CDP Retention logs.

Note: Deleting a protection plan without purging the retention journal creates legacy journaled data on the retention storage path that the Replication Engine does not release.

This legacy journaled data reduces the available storage capacity for retention journals of other protection plans. Contact Oracle Customer Support for clearing residual journals from the Replication Engine.

A red cross icon (x) indicates an incomplete protection plan. Click this icon to delete the plan.

Deactivate

Allows you to suspend the protection plan as necessary. This option also allows you to purge the CDP retention logs.

Activation Status

Displays the state of the protection plan. For the Inactive status, you can activate the plan using the Activate action. For Incomplete status, you can complete the protection plan creation using the Modify action. Refer to the table below for the appropriate action that is required for each Activation Status.

Creation Incomplete

Protection is not fully created. Use the Modify action to complete the protection plan.

Inactive

The protection plan is completed but not activated. When the plan is not activated, no data protection occurs. Use the Activate option to start data protection.

Active

The application data is being protected with the protection details and policies. Selecting this status provides you with the following possible actions:

Modify protection settings
Delete the protection
Create a recovery scenario
Run an existing recovery scenario

Deactivation Pending

An administrator has initiated the deactivation of the protection plan. Selecting this status provides you with the Force Deactivation link that allows you to force delete the plan.

Note: A force delete will not purge the CDP retention logs and reduces the retention storage capacity that is available for other protection plans.

Deletion Pending

An administrator has initiated the deletion of the protection plan. Selecting this status provides you with the Force Deactivation link that allows you to force delete the plan.

Last Modified Time

Indicates the most recent time that the protection plan was modified.