System information
Prerequisites
You ran or tested a recovery plan, or cleaned up after a test.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery > Recovery Plans, and select a recovery plan.
2 On the Monitor tab, click History.
3 (Optional) Click the Export icon for the recovery plan history for a specific time period, recovery plan
run, test, or cleanup operation.
You can save the recovery plan history as HTML, XML, CSV, or MS Excel or Word document.
Delete a Recovery Plan
You can delete a recovery plan if you do not need it.
The recovery plan must be a consistent state before you can delete it.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery > Recovery Plans, and select a recovery plan.
2 (Optional) On the Monitor tab, click Recovery Plans History, and click Export History Report to
download the history of the plan.
You can view the history for deleted plans in Recovery Plans History.
3 Right-click the recovery plan to delete and select Delete Recovery Plan.
Recovery Plan Status Reference
You can monitor the status of a recovery plan and determine the operation that is allowed in each state. The
state of a recovery plan is determined by the states of the protection groups within the plan.
Table 4‑2. Recovery States
State Description
Ready Recovery steps are cleared.
Test in progress Canceling a test moves plan to Cancel In Progress state.
Test complete Test completed with or without errors.
Test interrupted Server failed while a test was running.
Cleanup in progress After successful cleanup, plan state goes to Ready.
If cleanup is incomplete, state goes to Cleanup Incomplete.
If you set the Force Cleanup option, state goes to Ready
after an error.
If a failure occurs during cleanup, state goes to Cleanup
Incomplete.
Cleanup incomplete Errors occurred during cleanup.
You can run the cleanup again.
When running cleanup from this state, the cleanup wizard
provides an option to ignore errors.
Cleanup interrupted Site Recovery Manager failed during cleanup.
You cannot change recovery options.
Recovery in progress If you cancel recovery, the state goes to Cancel in progress.
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