Manage active mounts

The Active Mounts page in App Manager lists all active images—mounts—available in the management console. From this page, you can view information such as the application name, application type, source and mounted hostname, label, source image, and image name associated with an active image. You can also check if an active image is marked sensitive and it's expiration date.

From the Active Mounts page, you can perform the following actions:

• Unmount and delete an active image
• Unmount an active image
• Remount an image that was previously unmounted
• Delete a mount that was previously unmounted
• Forget an active mount (Compute Engine instances only)
• Mount and migrate operations from the active mounts page
• Access container YAML code from active mounts page

Unmount and delete an active image

When you no longer require an active image, you can unmount and delete the image. If instead you unmount an image without deleting it, you can remount it later.

Use these instructions to unmount and delete an active image:

1. Go to App Manager menu and select Active Mounts.

   The Active Mounts page opens.

2. Select one or more active images that you want to unmount and delete.

3. Select Unmount and delete from the drop-down menu.

4. Click Submit to complete the unmount operation. You can view the status of the unmount and delete job in the Monitor. Only use the force option if advised by Support.

Unmount an active mount

To remove a mount from a host and retain it for later use, you can choose to unmount it without deleting it.

Use these instructions to unmount an active image:

1. Go to App Manager and select Active Mounts.

   The Active Mounts page opens.

2. Select one or more active images that you either want to unmount.

3. Select Unmount from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page.

4. Click Submit to complete the unmount operation. You can view the status of the unmount and delete job in the Monitor. Only use the force option if advised by Support.

Remount an unmounted image

To remount an unmounted image, follow these steps:

1. Go to App Manager and select Active Mounts

   The Active Mounts page opens.

2. Select one or more images that you want to remount, they should have the Image Status of Unmounted.

3. Select Remount from the drop-down menu.

   The Remount page opens.

4. From the Host drop-down list, select a target host.

5. For VMware hosts only:

   1. For Mount Mode, select from the NFS (default), vRDM (virtual raw device mapping) or pRDM (physical raw device mapping) options.

      Note: VMware snapshots treat mounted vRDMs as independent and are not included in snapshots. Because of this, by default, Backup and DR does not include vRDMs when protecting a mounted VM. Backup and DR does provide an option where you can mark vRDMs as dependent. Although rarely used, when this option is enabled, vRDMs is included in VMware snapshots. Backup templates captures vRDMs marked as dependent. Note that vRDM and pRDM uses iSCSI, which Google Cloud Google Cloud VMware Engine does not support by default.

   2. From Map to ESX Hosts, select one of the following options:

      • One: Select One if you want to map only to the ESX host running the target VM.
      • Two: Select Two if you want to map to two ESX hosts, but not all ESX hosts in the cluster. On selecting Two, you are given the option to choose the second host, or choose Auto-select. Auto-select chooses the second host based on logical pairs of ESX hosts and always selects the partner ESX host for the one running the target VM.
      • All: Select All if you want to map to all the ESX hosts present in the cluster. Note that selecting All may increase the duration of the job.

6. Enter a unique name in Label.

7. Enter an unused drive letter in Mount Drive. The Mount Drive is where backup/recovery appliance tries to put the data. If the selected drive letter is occupied, then the data is put in the next available letter approaching A.

8. Enter a Mount Point. This is where the new data exists after it is mounted to the host.

9. Click Submit. A job is submitted to mount the image to the selected host, and the image becomes Active.

Delete an unmounted image

Images take up storage space, so if you find there are unmounted images that are no longer required, you can delete them to free up that space. Periodically check for and delete unused images.

Use these instructions to delete an unmounted image:

1. Go to App Manager and select Active Mounts.

   The Active Mounts page opens.

2. Select one or more unmounted active images that you want to delete.

3. Select Delete from the drop-down list at the bottom of the page. You can also right-click on the item in the list and select Delete from the menu.

4. Click Submit. You can view the status of the delete job in the Monitor.

Forget active mount (only for Compute Engine instances)

After a mount to a new or existing Compute Engine instance is complete, you have the option to remove the newly mounted image from the appliance without deleting the instance from the cloud.

Use these instructions to forget an active mount:

1. Click the App Manager menu and select Active Mounts option from the drop-down list.

   The Active Mounts page opens.

2. Select the active mount that you want to forget.

3. Select Forget Active Mount from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page.

   The Forget Active Mount page opens.

4. Click Submit. You can view the status of the job in the Monitor. Go to Monitor Jobs.