Disabling Protection

Scenarios

You can disable protection for a protected instance in a protection group.

After protection is disabled, data synchronization stops for the protected instance.

Prerequisites

• The status of the protected instance is Synchronization finished, Synchronizing, or Disabling protection failed.
• Protected instance services are running at the production site.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click Service List and choose Storage > Storage Disaster Recovery Service.

   The Storage Disaster Recovery Service page is displayed.

3. Choose Asynchronous Replication. In the right pane, locate the replica pair housing the protected instance you want to disable protection and click the number in the Protection Groups column.

   The Protection Groups tab page is displayed.

4. In the navigation tree, choose the target protection group.

   The protection group details page is displayed.

5. In the Protected Instances area, locate the target protected instance, choose More > Disable Protection in the Operation column.

   

   If you want to disable protection for multiple protected instances, select the desired instances and click Disable Protection above the instance list.

   

6. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the protected instance information and click Yes to disable protection. The protected instance status changes to Disabling protection.

   

7. After protection is disabled, the protected instance status changes to Pending protection.