Quest Protect 1.8 - User Guide

The Protected Status view of the Protection dashboard shows the unprotected virtual machines and unmonitored Rapid Recovery Protected virtual machines on the monitored Rapid Recovery Core. The Protected Status view includes the following two tables:

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Unprotected Virtual Machines: For more information, see Unprotected Virtual Machines table.

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Unmonitored Rapid Recovery Protected Virtual Machines: For more information, see Unmonitored Rapid Recovery Protected Virtual Machines table.

Figure 5. Protected Status view

To access the Protected Status view:

Ensure that the navigation panel is open.

To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow

on the left.

On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Protection.

The Protection dashboard opens.

Use the Group selector located at the top of the dashboard to select the protection environment that you want to monitor.

On the menu bar, click the Protected Status tab.

The Protected Status view appears at the bottom of the Protection dashboard.

Unprotected Virtual Machines table

The Unprotected Virtual Machines table shows a list of virtual machines that are monitored by the Foglight for VMware, but not backed up in the monitored Rapid Recovery environment.

Table 3. Description of the Unprotected Virtual Machines table

Data displayed

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Name. Shows the name of virtual machine.

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State. Indicates whether the virtual machine is Powered On, Powered Off, or Suspended.

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Explore. Shows the link to the Virtual Machine Explorer dashboard.

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Configure Backup. Shows the link to the Rapid Recovery Core Server.

Where to go next

Drill down on:

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Explore. Click

to navigate to the VMware Explorer dashboard. For more information, refer to the Foglight for VMware User and Reference Guide.

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Configure Backup. Click

to allow user to choose Rapid Recovery Core server for backup.

Unmonitored Rapid Recovery Protected Virtual Machines table

The Unmonitored Rapid Recovery Protected Virtual Machines table shows a list of virtual machines that have backup files on the Rapid Recovery Core Servers, but not monitored by the Foglight for VMware.

Table 4. Description of the Unmonitored Rapid Recovery Protected Virtual Machines table

Data displayed

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Name. Shows the display name of Rapid Recovery Core Server, cluster, or virtual machine.

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Status. Indicates whether the machine connectivity is Online, Failed, Paused, or Unreachable.

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Protected Space. Indicates the amount of protected storage space.

Repositories Capacity Planning Tab - Rapid Recovery

The Repositories Capacity Planning view of the Protection dashboard shows the information about repositories in which backup snapshot data captured from your monitored protection environment is stored and managed. The Repositories Capacity Planning view includes the following two elements:

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Repositories table: For more information, see Repositories table.

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Filter menu: Allows you to filter the repositories based on the following options: Show All (default option), 10 days, 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days.

Figure 6. Repositories Capacity Planning view