PlateSpin Forge User Guide
- PlateSpin Forge User Guide
- Planning
- Planning Your PlateSpin Environment
- Supported Configurations
- Supported Data Transfer Methods
- Security and Privacy
- Performance
- Access and Communication Requirements across Your Protection Network
- Basic Workflow for Workload Protection and Recovery
- Managing the PlateSpin Appliance and Server
- Using PlateSpin Tools
- Launching the Web Interface
- Dashboard Overview
- Workloads Overview
- Workload Protection and Recovery Commands
- Other PlateSpin Server Management Tools
- Managing Licenses
- Activating Your Product License
- About Workload License Consumption
- Viewing License Information
- Adding a License
- Deleting a License
- Generating a Licensing Report for Technical Support
- Configuring User Authorization and Authentication
- About PlateSpin Forge Role-Based Access
- Managing PlateSpin Forge Access and Permissions
- Managing PlateSpin Forge Security Groups and Workload Permissions
- Configuring the Forge Appliance
- Modifying the Password for the SQL Server System Administrator User
- Setting Up Appliance Networking
- Using External Storage Solutions with PlateSpin Forge
- Managing the Forge VM with vSphere Web Client
- Physically Relocating the Appliance
- Recovering the Forge Management VM to Factory Defaults
- Resetting the Forge Appliance to Factory Defaults
- Configuring the PlateSpin Server Application
- Configuring Language Settings for International Versions
- Configuring Email Notification Services for Events and Replication Reports
- Configuring Alternate IP Addresses for PlateSpin Server
- Configuring Behavior for Installing Network Drivers on Target Physical Machines at Failback
- Optimizing Data Transfer over WAN Connections
- Optimizing Replication Environment Performance
- Setting Reboot Method for the Configuration Service
- Configuring Support for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Configuring PlateSpin Web Interface
- Creating and Managing Workload Tags
- Configuring Refresh Rates for the Web Interface
- Managing Multiple PlateSpin Servers in the Management Console
- Using the PlateSpin Forge Management Console
- About PlateSpin Forge Management Console Cards
- Adding Instances of PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Forge to the Management Console
- Editing Cards on the Management Console
- Removing Cards on the Management Console
- Rebranding the PlateSpin Forge Web Interface
- Rebranding the Web Interface By Using Configuration Parameters
- Rebranding the Product Name in the Windows Registry
- Preparing Protection Targets and Sources
- Preparing Containers (Protection Targets)
- Refreshing Container Details
- Preparing Workloads (Protection Sources)
- About Workloads (Protection Sources)
- Adding Workloads (Protection Sources)
- Tagging Workloads
- Refreshing Workload Details
- Removing Workloads
- Preparing Device Drivers for Physical Failback Targets
- Managing Device Drivers
- Managing the PlateSpin PnP ID Mappings
- Preparing Linux Workloads for Protection
- Verifying Block-Based Drivers for Linux
- Preparing Snapshots for Block-Level Transfer (Linux)
- Using Freeze and Thaw Scripts for Every Replication (Linux)
- Preparing for Windows Clusters Protection
- Planning Your Cluster Workload Protection
- Configuring Windows Active Node Discovery
- Configuring the Block-Based Transfer Method for Clusters
- Adding Resource Name Search Values
- Quorum Arbitration Timeout
- Setting Local Volume Serial Numbers
- PlateSpin Failover
- PlateSpin Failback
- Troubleshooting Workload Discovery and Inventory
- Troubleshooting Discovery for Windows Workloads
- Troubleshooting Discovery for Linux Workloads
- Linux Distributions Supported by Forge
- Analyzing Your Linux Workload
- Pre-compiled blkwatch Drivers for Linux Distributions
- Synchronizing Serial Numbers on Cluster Node Local Storage
- Protect Agent Utility
- Requirements for Protect Agent Utility
- Using the Protect Agent Utility for Windows
- Using Protect Agent with Block-Based Transfer Drivers
- Protecting Workloads
- Workload Protection and Recovery
- Prerequisites for Workload Protection
- Configuring Protection Details and Preparing the Replication
- Starting the Workload Protection
- Aborting Commands
- Failover
- Failback
- Reprotecting a Workload
- Essentials of Workload Protection
- Guidelines for Workload and Container Credentials
- Protection Tiers
- Recovery Points
- Initial Replication Method (Full and Incremental)
- Service and Daemon Control
- Volumes Storage
- Networking
- Failback to Physical Machines
- Protecting Windows Clusters
- Generating Reports
- About Forge Reports
- Generating Workload and Workload Protection Reports
- Generating Diagnostic Reports
- Troubleshooting Workload Protection and Recovery
- Optimizing Throughput for a Connection
- Troubleshooting Traffic-Forwarding Workloads
- Troubleshooting the Configuration Service
- Troubleshooting Workload Prepare Replication (Windows)
- Troubleshooting Workload Replication
- Troubleshooting Workload Failover or Failback
- Replication Cannot Complete If an Anti-Virus Update Is Pending a Restart on the Source
- Shrinking the PlateSpin Forge Databases
- Post-Protection Workload Cleanup
- PlateSpin Tools
- Using Workload Protection Features through the PlateSpin Protect Server API
- API Overview
- PlateSpin Protect Server API Documentation
- Samples and Other References
- Using the iPerf Network Test Tool to Optimize Network Throughput for PlateSpin Products
- Introduction
- Calculations
- Setup
- Methodology
- Expectations
- Documentation Updates
- Documentation Update History
- January 2019
- September 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- Legal Notice