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Configure protection groups

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You should create protection groups to protect a group of virtual machines on the protected site.

What you will need

You should ensure that both the source and target sites are configured for the following:

  • Same version of SRM installed

  • Virtual machines

  • Paired protected and recovery sites

  • Source and destination datastores should be mounted on respective sites

Steps

  1. Log in to vCenter Server and then click Site Recovery > Protection Groups.

  2. In the Protection Groups pane, click New.

  3. Specify a name and description for the protection group, direction, and then click Next.

  4. In the Type field, select the Type field option…​ as Datastore groups (array-based replication) for NFS and VMFS datastore. The fault domain is nothing but SVMs with replication enabled. The SVMs that have only peering implemented and have no issues are displayed.

  5. In the Replication groups tab, select either the enabled array pair or the replication groups that have the virtual machine you configured, and then click Next.

    All the virtual machines on the replication group are added to the protection group.

  6. Select either the existing recovery plan or create a new plan by clicking Add to new recovery plan.

  7. In the Ready to complete tab, review the details of the protection group that you created, and then click Finish.