The following system elements are preserved as part of the backup:
- Element inventories: Storage Systems, Servers, and Fabric Switch inventories
- SNMP managers: Locations for forwarding SNMP traps
- Jobs: All jobs on the system
- Alerts: Monitoring alerts
- Tier names: Tier names for DT pools
- Security information: Local usernames and passwords, and integrated Active Directories
- Replication groups: All copy groups and replication groups and their associated snapshot schedules
- Virtual Appliance Manager settings: Connected NTP servers, log level settings, SSL certificate, and service settings are preserved. Host settings are not preserved.
- Migration tasks: All migration tasks and their associated migration pairs
- Storage launch settings: Option settings under storage launch settings