Pausing and Resuming the Protection of a VPG
During periods when the WAN bandwidth is utilized to its maximum, you can pause the protection of a VPG, to free up some of this bandwidth. After pausing the protection, the VPG can still be recovered to the last checkpoint written to the journal before the pause operation.
Note:
■ Zerto recommends adding a checkpoint to the VPG immediately before pausing protection, if you might want to recover the VPG to the latest point in time before the pause.
■ You cannot pause a VPG while a backup job is running.
To pause the protection of VPGs:
1. In the Zerto User Interface, click the VPGs or VMs tab and select one or more VPGs to pause protection.
2. Click MORE > PAUSE.
A warning is displayed. If you click PROCEED in this warning, the VPG protection is paused.
Note: If the VPG was previously viewed, and the tab for this VPG is still displayed, you can access the details by selecting the tab.
The VPG protection is paused until you click Resume VPGs.
To resume the protection of VPGs:
1. In the Zerto User Interface, click the VPGs or VMs tab and select one or more VPGs to resume protection.
2. Click MORE > Resume.
After resuming protection, a Bitmap Sync will most probably be performed to synchronize the protection and recovery sites.