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22 Disaster Recovery with Dell PS Series SANs and VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager | TR1073
6 SRM protection groups
A protection group is a datastore volume or group of datastore volumes with virtual machines that need to be
protected or it can be based on a storage policy. A protection group can be configured from either site through
the VMware vSphere Web Client. More detailed information can be found in the SRM Administration Guide.
The steps are an example of creating a datastore protection group.
Note: Recovery plans can only consist of storage policy protection groups or array based replication
datastore protection groups.
1. From the vSphere Web Client, log into the protected site, click on Home and select Site Recovery
from Inventories. Select the Protection Groups and click Create Protection Group from the menu
bar.
2. Provide a name and description that clearly identify what will be protected, and then select the
relevant site-pair. Click Next.
3. Select the direction of protection (in this example the Prod Site will failover to the DR Site) and then
select the protection group type (in this example datastore groups). Finally, select the array pair and
click Next.
4. On the next screen, select all of the datastores to be included in the protection group. If a VM has
entities that reside across multiple datastores, they will all be included in the same group. By
selecting each datastore group you will see which VMs will be associated with the protection group.
Protection groups are used by SRM when creating recovery plans. Make your selection and click
Next.