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Creating protection groups

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

  • You must have installed Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) and Site Recovery Manager (SRM) in your vCenter Server environment.
  • You must have configured SRA and performed a replication operation for the protected site.

    Each replicated virtual machine must be assigned to an existing resource pool, folder, and network on the recovery site using inventory mappings.

  1. Log in to your vCenter Server, and click Site Recovery > Protection Groups.
  2. In the Protection Groups pane, click Objects > .
  3. In the Create Protection Group wizard, specify the following information:
    1. Specify a name and description for the protection group, and then click Next.
    2. In the Protection group type field, select the protected site, select array-based replication (ABR) as the protection group type, and then click Next.
    3. In the Datastore groups tab, select the required datastore groups, and then click Next.
      All of the virtual machines on the selected datastore are added to the protection group.
    4. In the Ready to complete tab, review the details of the protection group that you created, and then click Finish.

The protection group is created. You can repeat steps 2 and 3 to create more protection groups.