Plan Overview
Create policies, schedules, and jobs on the Plan tab. You can also, edit, view and delete policies and schedules using this tab.
A policy is a user-defined set of tasks and rules. Once a policy is added to ECX, it can be combined with a schedule or trigger to create a job. There are several policy types including catalog, report, scripts, Copy Data and Use Data.
A schedule is a set of rules for triggering a policy. Create a schedule to apply to one or more jobs. Once a schedule is applied, the job sessions are run as defined by the parameters of the schedule.
A job is an execution of a policy. When a job is run, the job session status is monitored and its status can be watched real-time in the job monitor. Job sessions are run on demand or by trigger.
Best Practice: Create a schedule before creating a job definition so that you can easily add the schedule to the job definition.
- NetApp ONTAP Storage Catalog Data policies, which are high-level objects.
- NetApp ONTAP File Catalog Data policies, which are low-level objects.
Tip: NetApp ONTAP File Inventory jobs may take a long time to run because they catalog at a file level. Consider creating NetApp ONTAP File Inventory job definitions that constrain the number of file system objects to catalog by limiting the number of storage systems and volume processed by a single job. You can also stagger the scheduled run times of the jobs to prevent them from running concurrently. Consider running NetApp ONTAP File Inventory jobs less frequently than you run NetApp ONTAP Storage Inventory jobs.
ECX utilizes automated Copy Data Management workflows for replicating and intelligently reusing snapshots, vaults, and mirrors. Backup and Restore jobs offer control over testing and cloning use cases, instant recovery, and full disaster recovery. Through Backup and Restore jobs, you can:
- Copy data from a variety of storage providers to multiple locations.
- Reuse and recover resources from snapshots, vaults, mirrors, and other copies and replicas.
- Support use cases for automated data protection, recovery, DevOps, Dev/Test, data and database validation with data masking, through the use of automated Instant Disk Restore, Instant VM Restore, volume, and file restore functionalities.
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