Backup/recovery appliances are centrally managed from themanagement console.From theManage>Appliances page, you can manage appliancecapacity heath, configure appliance settings, manage Backup and DRagents, update appliances, configure appliance networking, and remove appliances.

Overview of all backup/recovery appliances

From this page, you can see information for each managed backup/recovery appliance,such as the following:

• TheName of the appliance.
• TheAppliance ID.
• Connectivity Status: Whether the connection to themanagement console is active or stale (not reachable based onthe last synchronization).
• TheIP address of the management console appliance.

• Appliance Capacity Health: Links to a dashboard that shows thisappliance's data change rate and snap count over the last 24 hours compared tothe appliance's recommended capacity limit. If the current value exceeds therecommended value, monitor it for a few days, and consider adding more disksor other resources if it is underprovisioned, or creating a new appliance.

  Caution: Exceeding the capacity of a backup/recovery appliance can lead to failedjobs and unprotected data and failed restore operations.

• TheMachine Type: e2-standard-4, e2-standard-16, or n2-standard-16.

• The date and time that the appliances wasLast Synchronized with themanagement console. If the management console andbackup/recovery appliance's connectivity status shows red and the lastsynchronization time is less than 30 minutes from the current time, contactcustomer support to resolve the issue. Due to networking changes,backup/recovery appliances connectivity status may be temporarily down.However, they will automatically re-establish connectivity and sync withthe management console.

• The applianceSystem Version.

• Version: The appliance version is the first two numbers in the systemversion, so you don't need to show this column if you show theSystem Version column.

• Error: This only shows a value when there is a system error.

• Timezone: The time zone that the appliances uses for scheduling jobs.

• Service Account: The service account used in deploying the appliance.

• Zone: The Google Cloud zone in which the backup/recovery appliance is deployed.

• Project ID: The Google Cloud project in which the backup/recovery applianceis deployed.

• Region: The Google Cloud region in which the backup/recovery applianceis deployed.

• TheUpdate Status of the appliance, as follows:

  • Up to date: This indicates the appliance is running on the latestversion and no action is required.
  • Pending: This indicates the appliance has a new available update to apply.You can apply the update to the appliance from theManage >Appliance Updates.
  • Overdue: This indicates the appliance is running on earlier versions andmust be updated immediately. You can update the appliance from theManage >Appliance Updates.
  • Out of support: This indicates the appliance is older than thesupported version and needs to be updated immediately. You cannot back upany new entities or applications until you update the backup/recovery applianceto the supported version. You can apply the update to theappliance from theManage >Appliance Updates.
  Warning: Don't rename the backup/recovery appliance, as the resourcesgenerated during deployment, such as the service account, Google Cloudcredentials, firewall rules, and managed appliance, are not renamed.Renaming of the appliance is not supported at this time.

To modify the display of fields that appear in theAppliances table, follow these steps.

1. Click theManage tab and selectAppliances fromthe drop-down menu. TheAppliances page opens listing all appliancesmanaged by the management console.

2. To modify the display, you can do the following:

   • Adjust Fields: To modify the fields that appear in the table,right-click within the table header row and click the checkboxes for thefields you want displayed–or clear them for fields you don't want to view.
   • Sort Content: To sort the content listed in a table column byalphanumeric order, select a column header and then click theUp orDown arrow to change the order.
   • Adjust Column Width: To adjust the width of a table column to show morecontent in the table, drag the column divider in a column header to the leftor right to resize the column width. Column dividers are marked by a pair ofthin gray lines.
   • Filter By: To filter the list, clickshow filter. Enter one or morefilter criteria as appropriate. To clear a filter, clickx to theright of the applied filter.
   Note: Filters that are of type text, list, and date persist across different management console sessions for the same user.

3. To export the appliances list, click theExport icon.You can export the appliances list in PDF format.

Filter by appliance

You can filter the appliance-related data shown in the management console.

To filter data by appliance:

1. Click theManage tab and selectAppliances from the drop-down menu.

   TheAppliances page opens.

2. Click theFilter icon in the top right-hand corner of theAppliancespage.

   Data related to only the selected appliance is shown.This information varies depending on the appliance selection.

3. From the drop-down menu, select theAppliances that you want to filter.

4. ClickSave.

Resources summary

TheResources Summary page provides an at-a-glance view of the status ofan appliance. It includes usage information and the warning threshold forVDisks.

When usage of any of these resources reaches or exceeds the warning threshold,the appliance performance can suffer. To avoid this issue,contact support for guidance and solutions.

View and manage VDisk usage

A VDisk is a virtual disk on an appliance that imports the appliance's hosts,applications, users, and roles. The appliance is presented to thehost as a unit of usable storage capacity.

You use VDisks for each LUN, VMDK, database, or file system protected, with eachvolume comprising a snapshot of an application, and each LUN comprising a mountor clone of an application.

To view the number of virtual disks on an appliance:

1. Click theManage tab and selectAppliances from thedrop-down menu.

   TheAppliances page opens. Select an appliance.

2. ClickConfigure Appliance.

   TheAppliance Configuration page opens.

3. SelectResources from the left navigation panel.

4. Select theVDisks tab.

   UnderVDisk Usage, the following information is provided:

   • The number of VDisks in use
   • The number of available VDisks
   • The total VDisk capacity

Top Ten VDisks list

TheTop Ten VDisks list shows the ten applications that have the maximumnumber of virtual disk copies. These are usually snapshots, mounts, or clones.

Change the warning threshold for VDisks

If the number of virtual disks created on an appliance exceeds the warningthreshold, a warning is posted to the event log. You must reduce disk consumptionor add another appliance to share the load.

The default warning threshold for VDisks usage is 90%. To change the warningvalue, drag the threshold value to the new value and clickSave.

Caution: Change the warning threshold only if your usage requirements justifya different value. Consult support as they can help. Before changing the warningthreshold, follow the steps in the next section to reduce disk consumption.

Reduce VDisk consumption

Perform the following tasks to reduce VDisk consumption:

• If you are not using one yet, deploy an E2-Standard-4"Standard for Compute Engine VMs or SAP HANA databases" backup/recovery applianceand use that to protect up to 5,000 Compute Engine VMs, Cloud SQLinstances, and SAP HANA and IBM Db2 databases that are backed up to Persistent Diskdisks.

• Reduce the number of snapshots kept for an application by changing thepolicy template or backup rule used by a backup plan to reduce the time thatbackups and logs are retained on the backup/recovery appliance before beingreplicated to OnVault storage.

• Delete unneeded mounts, clones, and LiveClones.

• Change VMware VMDKs that don't need to be protected toIndependent Mode, as these cannot be protected by VMware snapshots.

• Group Microsoft SQL Server databases from a single host together into a consistency group.For example, if a single host has 9 SQL databases, create oneConsistency Group for that host and include all nine databases, thenprotect that group rather than the individual databases.In this example, VDisk consumption is reduced from nine to one.

Replication

You can configure the bandwidth used to replicate StreamSnap image data from onebackup/recovery appliance to another so that two appliances can share thebandwidth available to your organization with other organizational resources.Throttling determines the amount of bandwidth you want to dedicate to anappliance for your data replication.

When two backup/recovery appliances are paired for replication (seeData replication), you can choose to set the maximum bandwidth usedfor this replication. The bandwidth setting is made from the point-of-view ofthe originating appliance, called the A-side.When choosing this bandwidth setting, the bandwidth chosen represents the amountof traffic originating from this appliance to appliance B. If appliance Areplicates to appliances B and C simultaneously, bandwidth throttling is setindependently for appliance A to appliance B and appliance A to appliance C.For example, for paired appliances A and B bandwidth throttling can be 10Mbpswhile paired appliances A and C can be 100Mbps.

Configure bandwidth throttling

Use theBandwidth Throttling feature to limit the bandwidth used bythe replication process between appliances.

• Enable Bandwidth Throttling: Set Throttling toOn if you plan to limit the maximum amount of bandwidth available for appliance replication (Steam Snap). You can restrict bandwidth usage by turning on bandwidth throttling and limiting the maximum amount of bandwidth that the appliance shouldn't exceed for each type of replication.

• Disable Bandwidth Throttling: Set Throttling toOff if you don't want to restrict the amount of bandwidth used for appliance replication. This option lets you use the maximum available bandwidth.

Use these instructions to turn bandwidth throttling on or off with a bandwidthlimit:

1. Click theManage tab and selectAppliances from thedrop-down menu.

   TheAppliances page opens.

2. Select an appliance.

3. ClickConfigure Appliance to open theAppliance Setup page.

4. Go toSystem, thenConfiguration, thenAppliance Settings.

5. Click theStreamSnap tab if you have to turn bandwidth throttlingon or off for StreamSnap replication.

6. To enable bandwidth throttling, clickOn.

   Note: If you choose not to restrict the maximum amount of bandwidth used forbackup/recovery appliance replication, click theOff button to disablebandwidth throttling.

7. ClickYes to override existing triggers or to configure a constantbandwidth value.

8. Enter the new bandwidth inSet bandwidth value to. A value ofzero means unlimited bandwidth.

9. ClickSave to update the bandwidth configuration settings.

Schedule bandwidth throttling

During various times of the day or week you may want a backup/recovery applianceto use less bandwidth so that other priority services can use thisbandwidth. You can customize the bandwidth throttle so that it runsautomatically based on predefined schedules (triggers).

This section describes how to schedule bandwidth throttles. Each schedulespecifies the amount of bandwidth that you want to allocate during the intervaland time. You can create separate schedules for weekdays and weekends.

Note: You can create up to 10 different bandwidth triggers.

Use the instructions to create a custom schedule for bandwidth throttling:

1. Click theManage tab and selectAppliances from thedrop-down menu.

   TheAppliances page opens.

2. Select an appliance.

3. ClickConfigure Appliance to open theAppliance Configuration page.

4. Go toSystem, thenConfiguration, thenAppliance Settings.This page lets you coordinate bandwidth throttling through the use ofscheduled triggers.

5. Click theStreamSnap subtab if you have to schedule bandwidth throttlingfor StreamSnap replication.

6. Click theOn button next toThrottling to enable throttling.

7. Click theNo button next toOverride Triggers.

8. Click theAdd New Trigger (+) button to add a new trigger schedule.

9. Enter the bandwidth value (in Mbps), day, and time for the new schedule.

10. ClickSave to update the changes.

Activate a trigger schedule

To activate a trigger schedule, select the schedule and clickSet This Trigger.

Delete a trigger schedule

To delete an existing trigger schedule, select the schedule and clickRemove This Trigger (-).

View bandwidth usage statistics

Use theStatistics tab to monitor bandwidth consumption for StreamSnapreplication.

Use these instructions to view the bandwidth statistics for your appliances:

1. Click theManage tab and selectAppliances fromthe drop-down menu.

   TheAppliances page opens. Select an appliance.

2. Select an appliance.

3. ClickConfigure Appliance to open theAppliance Configuration page.

4. Go toSystem, thenConfiguration, thenAppliance Settings.

5. Click theStatistics tab.

6. By default,StreamSnap is selected from theReplication Typedrop-down list.

7. A pair of charts appears displaying outgoing and incoming bandwidthconsumption statistics for the selected appliance on a time scalethat you select.

   • TheIncoming Bandwidth (All Sources) graph depicts the incomingtraffic reaching the local appliance from all joined appliances.
   • TheOutgoing Bandwidth graph depicts the outgoing traffic fromthe local appliance to the selected appliance.

   You can modify the scale by selecting a time unit, such asDay (bandwidthused during the last seven days),Hour (bandwidth used during the last 23hours), andMinute (bandwidth used in the last 10 minutes). The bandwidthis measured in Mbps.

Remove a backup/recovery appliance from the management console

You can remove a backup/recovery appliance from management by themanagement console through theManage tab. All resourcesassociated with this appliance will be removed from the management console.

When you remove an appliance, the following process occurs:

• De-schedules resource replication.
• Removes everything related to the removed backup/recovery appliance fromthe management console database except promoted backup templates, users, androles.
• Untags all promoted backup templates on the target backup/recovery applianceto return it to free-standing status.
• Removes the management of the backup/recovery appliance by themanagement console.

To remove a backup/recovery appliance from the managementconsole:

1. Click theManage tab and selectAppliances from the drop-down list.

   TheAppliances page opens listing all appliances managed by themanagement console.

2. Select the appliance you want to remove from the list, then clickRemove Appliance.

   Note: You can also right-click on the appliance and selectRemove Appliances.

3. ClickConfirm in the confirmation dialog.

Note: A backup/recovery appliance runs forever, even if it is removed from themanagement console, until the instance isstopped or deleted.