System information

When you create protection groups, wait to ensure that the operations finish as expected. Make sure that

Site Recovery Manager creates the protection group and that the protection of the virtual machines in the

group is successful.

Prerequisites

Verify that you performed one of the following tasks:

Included virtual machines in datastores for which you configured array-based replication

Configured vSphere Replication on virtual machines

Performed a combination of both

Procedure

1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Protection Groups.

2 On the Objects tab, click the icon to create a protection group.

3 On the Name and location page, enter a name for the protection group, select a pair of sites or a folder,

and click Next.

4 On the Protection group type page, select the protected site, select the replication type, and click Next.

Option Action

Array-based replication groups

Select Array Based Replication (ABR) and select an array pair.

vSphere Replication protection

groups

Select vSphere Replication.

5 Select datastore groups or virtual machines to add to the protection group.

Option Action

Array-based protection groups

Select datastore groups and click Next.

vSphere Replication protection

groups

Select virtual machines from the list, and click Next.

When you create vSphere Replication protection groups, only virtual machines that you configured for

vSphere Replication and that are not already in a protection group appear in the list.

6 (Optional) Enter a description for the protection group, and click Next.

7 Review your settings and click Finish.

You can monitor the progress of the creation of the protection group on the Objects tab under

Protection Groups.

If Site Recovery Manager successfully applied inventory mappings to the protected virtual

machines, the status of the protection group is OK.

If you did not configure inventory mappings, or if Site Recovery Manager was unable to apply

them, the status of the protection group is Not Configured.

What to do next

If the status of the protection group is Not Configured, apply inventory mappings to the virtual machines:

To apply site-wide inventory mappings, or to check that inventory mappings that you have already set

are valid, see Select Inventory Mappings in Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration. To apply

these mappings to all of the virtual machines, see “Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a

Protection Group,” on page 35.

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