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Creating a recovery plan

You must create a recovery plan to define the protection groups that must be recovered simultaneously.

  • You must have configured your storage system.
  • You must have installed Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
  • You must have created protection groups.

You can include multiple protection groups in a single recovery plan, or you can include a single protection group in multiple recovery plans.

  1. Log in to your vCenter Server, and click Site Recovery > Sites.
  2. In the Related Objects tab, select Recovery Plans, and then click the icon.
  3. In the Create Recovery Plan wizard, specify the following details:
    1. In the Name and location tab, specify a name and description for the recovery plan, and then click Next.
    2. In the Recovery site tab, select the recovery site, and then click Next.
    3. In the Protection groups tab, select the protection groups for the recovery plan, and then click Next.
    4. In the Test networks, select the test networks that are to be used for running a test recovery operation, and then click Next.
    5. In the Ready to complete tab, review the details of the recovery plan, and then click Finish.