You must create protection groups to protect a group of virtual machines on the protected site.
Before you begin
You should ensure that both the source and target sites are
configured for the following:
- Same version of SRM installed
- vVols datastore configured with replication enabled and datastore mounted
- Similar storage capability profiles
- Similar VM Storage Policies with replication capability that must
be mapped in SRM
- Virtual machines
- Paired protected and recovery sites
- Source and destination datastores should be mounted on respective sites
Procedure
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Log in to your vCenter Server, and then click .
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In the Protection Groups pane, click
New.
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Specify a name and description for the protection group, direction, and then
click NEXT.
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In the Type field, select one of the following:
| For... |
Type field option... |
|---|
| Traditional datastore |
Datastore groups (array-based replication) |
| vVols datastore |
Virtual Volumes (vVol replication) |
The fault domain is nothing but SVMs with replication enabled.
The SVMs that have only peering implemented and with no issues are
displayed.
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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 of the virtual machines on the replication group are added to
the protection group.
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Select either the existing recovery plan or create a new plan by clicking
Add to new recovery plan.
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In the Ready to complete tab, review the
details of the protection group that you created, and then click
Finish.