Managing the application details

The application details are classified into Overview, Storage, Backups, and Resources tabs.

You can click the Assign a policy to open the Assign a backup policy page. For more information about Assign a backup policy page, see Setting up backup policies from Applications list page.

In addition, you can also click Assign policy to open the Assign a backup policy page. For more information about Assign a backup policy page, see Setting up backup policies from Applications list page.

Overview

The Overview tab includes the following details:

The Storage section provides a summary of how this application is utilizing storage resources. It represents overall capacity and usage of the PVCs in a line chart. The capacity usage of storage classes is represented as a pie chart. For example, 1200 GiB is the overall capacity and 300 GiB is the used capacity.
The Events section includes critical and recent events that occurred on the application. Click View all to see all the events that are associated to this application.
The Disaster recovery section displays the disaster recovery to which applications are enrolled. It shows Regional status, Metro status, Current site, Home site, and Last consistent time.
The Backups section provides a summary of backup jobs. The percentage of successful backups, timestamp of the recent successful backup, and total number of available backups and backup policies. The storage capacity usage from a policy perspective is represented as a pie chart. For example, there are 3 policies and 600 GiB overall capacity. The "check_app" policy usage is 400 GiB, the "object_policy" usage is 150 GiB, and the "client26" sewage is 50 GiB.
The Inventory section displays a clickable list of storage and resources. The number within parenthesis for Storage and Resources headings indicate the total number of available storage and resources respectively.

Storage

The Storage tab includes the following details:

Capacity usage by PVCs section displays the current application capacity usage by PVCs.
Capacity by storage class section represents in a pie chart the total capacity of the storage class and the amount of used storage in GiB.
Storage classes section individually lists all the storage classes along with the total number of PVCs, total capacity of the PVC, and the total used capacity in GiB. The number that is specified within parentheses is the total number of storage classes.
Note: A Persistent Volume (PV) storage is dynamically provisioned by using the storage classes. For more information about how to create storage classes, see Dynamic provisioning of Persistent Volume in filesystem.
The Persistent Volume Claims section lists PVCs distributed across the associated storage classes along with their used and total capacities.
Note: The PVC is a storage request and it uses the PV resources. It also does claim checks to these resources.
The following details of the PVCs are available in the list:
- The Name of the storage class.
- The PVC status of the storage class. The values are Bound and Unbound.
- The Used and Capacity indicates the used storage and the total capacity in GiB.
- The Storage class and PV indicates the associated storage class and PV.
Use the Search text box to filter the records in the list. You can filter based on PVC status and storage class parameters. You can further refine your search based on the different values of these parameters. For example, you can filter PVC status based on Bound, unbound, or All.

You can also use the settings icon to choose the columns to display. Click Reset to default if you want the original system settings.

Backups

The Backups tab includes the following details:

Note: If a backup is in progress for the application, then a message is displayed with details about the percentage completion of the backup job.

Usage: The Usage section provides total number of backup policies that are used and available policies.

Backup policies

For individual associated policies, it provides Retention, Total used, and Last backup. You can use the ellipsis overflow menu to view details, edit, or remove a policy association from the application.

If you want to assign policies from this section, click Assign. For the procedure to assign, see Setting up backup policies from Applications list page.

Backups

The Backups section lists all backup jobs. The following details about a backup are available in the list:

The Time of backup. Click the Time link of a record to view details.
The Policy used.
The Status of the backup. The various statuses are namely, Snapshot in progress, In progress, Completed, Failed, PartiallyFailed, Failed Validation.
The Capacity in GiB.
The Location where it is backed up.

Use the Search text box to filter the records in the list. You can also use the settings icon to customize the column display. Click Reset to default if you want the original system settings.

For advanced search on the records, click the filter icon and select values for Policy, Status, or Location from the drop-down lists. After selecting the values, click Done. Click Clear filters to clear the selection made in these drop-down lists.

Resources

The Resources tab lists all the included resources of the selected application in a table format with Name, Type, and Label headers.

Use the Search text box to filter the records in the list. For advanced search, click the filter icon and select a value from the Type drop down to list all resources that belong only to a selected type.

You can also use the settings icon to choose the columns to display. Click Reset to default if you want the original system settings.

Actions that you can perform on an application record

Click Actions and select any of the following operations:

Click Assign backup policy to select one or more backup policies for data protection. In the Assign policy slide out pane, click the Frequency and select run backup now to do an immediate backup. It overrides the frequency set in the policy and starts the on-demand backup job immediately. However, the scheduled backups continue to run as set in the associated policy. After you select, click Done to complete the operation. If the listed policies do not match your requirement, then create a new policy from the Backup Policies page. A message is displayed to inform the success of the policy assignment operation.
Note: If you have not assigned a policy to this application, the Actions and Restore buttons are not visible. Instead Assign policy button is available.
Click Backup now to backup the application data. In the Backup now slide out pane, verify the application, policy, backed up data location, and retention period. If there is more than one policy associated to the application, then select one or more policies and click Run <n> backup policies. Here, n indicates the number of policies that are selected to run backup. In the confirmation window, click Run backup policy to initiate the backup job.
Click Restore to restore the application backup. A Restore Application <application name> slide out pane gets displayed. For more details about how to work with the slide out pane, see Restoring an application.
Click Failover to register this application for disaster recovery. For more information about failover steps, see Failover section in Protecting your applications. For more details about disaster recovery, see Metro-DR for IBM Storage Fusion HCI System. A message gets displayed confirming that the application is enabled for disaster recovery.
Note: If the two sites of the Metro sync DR setup are in network disconnected state, then before you start the failover or failback operation on the surviving site, scale down the Ramen DR. To get the name of surviving site, run mmlsmgr command. After network issues are resolved, scale up the Ramen DR.
After an application is enabled for disaster recovery, the Actions shows Remove disaster recovery option. If you no longer need disaster recovery (fail back) for an application, click Remove disaster recovery to disable the protection for the application. In the confirmation message box, click Disable to proceed with the disable operation. In the Remove disaster recovery window, click Remove.