Protected VMs and Recovery Groups will be assigned one of the following protection statuses. Protection status changes during the course of normal operation indicating the current stage of the protection process.

Protection Status

Description

Initializing

This is short-lasting status when the AROVA creates the replication infrastructure (secondary disks, CG, start replication) and updates the CDB accordingly.

Initial Sync

This is potentially long-lasting status (depending on the VM’s initial data set size) when all data existing before starting protection must be replicated. The VM is not recoverable in this state.

Recoverable

This is a healthy status. During this time, newly generated data are replicated consistently with low RPO (typically, less than 1 minute).

Error

This status indicates the disk of at least one protected VM is experiencing replication failure. The affected VM is not recoverable.

Unprotected

This is the initial status of a recovered VM after failover. In this state, the VM has been correctly recovered but replication/protection for it has not started because its respective target region may not be available.

Table 6: States of protection status.

    • AROVA sets a VM’s Initial Sync, Recoverable and Error status according to the PDAR replication monitoring information, aggregating it across all involved disks.
    • An RG’s protection status is the accumulated replication status of all its VMs. RG status can be inferred as follows:
      • If all the contained VMs are Recoverable, the entire RG is considered Recoverable.
      • If at least one VM status is Initial Sync, the RG status will be Initial Sync.
      • If the RG contains a mix of VMs with Recoverable and Error statuses, the RG status will be Partially Recoverable. All VMs with Recoverable status can be recovered.
        • Manually review the VMs of the RG to determine their individual statuses.
      • If the RG contains a mix of VMs with Initial Sync and Error statuses, the RG status will be Partially Recoverable. No VMs are currently in a recoverable state.
        • Manually review the VMs of the RG to determine their individual statuses.
    • If a disaster occurs while the RG status is Recoverable, all the VMs of the RG will be recovered consistently.
      • If a disaster occurs while the RG status is Initial Sync, Partially Recoverable or Error, the impacted VMs will be skipped during failover; however, Recoverable VMs will failover normally.


Note: It is possible to view the status of protected virtual disks for Recovery Groups and independent VMs.