Adding/Deleting a Protected Object

A protected object refers to an object for which UltraVR provides disaster recovery (DR). UltraVR allows you to add, delete, and modify authentication information about protected objects of a protected group.

This operation supports only storage devices of Huawei distributed block storage series.
In the array DR scenario, if you need to add or remove protected objects, refresh the corresponding storage and FusionCompute. For details, see Refreshing Resource Information.

Adding a Protected Object

This section describes how to add a protected object to a protected group.

Prerequisites

At least one protected group has been created.
The number of protected objects in the protected group has not reached the upper limit.
The template type of the protected object you want to add matches the existing type.
When a shared volume is protected, the shared volume can only be mounted to VMs in the protected group.
Set only one DR storage pool for each production storage pool.

Procedure

On the menu bar, choose Protection.
Select a protected group, and in the details area, click the Protected Object tab.
Click Add.
The Add Protected Object dialog box is displayed.
Select one or more protected objects, and click OK.

Deleting a Protected Object

If a protected object does not need to be protected, you can remove it from the protected group.

Prerequisites

At least one protected group has been created.
Multiple protected objects have been added to a protected group.

Context

This operation can be performed only when the protected group status is Normal.
When the protected group status is Normal, you can add a removed protected object to this protected group again.

Procedure

On the menu bar, choose Protection.
Select a protected group, and in the details area, click the Protected Object tab.
Select the protected object which you want to delete and click Delete in the operation area.
In the Warning dialog box that is displayed, read the content of the dialog box carefully and select I have read and understood the consequences associated with performing this operation.
Click OK.