Select individual VMs: Clicking on the Virtual machines button enables you to select individual VMs to protect. As you select each VM, the service adds it to a default resource group located on the right-hand side of the screen.

Select previously created resource groups: You can create custom resource groups beforehand using the Resource group tab at the top of the BlueXP disaster recovery UI. This is not a requirement as you can use the other two methods to create a resource group as part of the replication plan process. For details, see Create a replication plan.

Select entire vCenter datastores: If you have a lot of VMs to protect with this replication plan, it may not be as efficient to select individual VMs. Because BlueXP disaster recovery uses volume-based SnapMirror replication to protect the VMs, all VMs residing on a datastore will be replicated as part of the volume. In most cases, you should have BlueXP disaster recovery protect and restart any VMs located on the datastore. Use this option to tell the service to add any VMs hosted on a selected datastore to the list of protected VMs.