System information

What to do next

If the status of the protection group is Not Configured and the status for the new virtual machines is

Mapping Missing, 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.

To apply inventory mappings to each virtual machine in the protection group individually, see

“Configure Inventory Mappings for an Individual Virtual Machine in a Protection Group,” on

page 36.

Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group

If the status of a protection group is Not Configured, you can configure protection for all of the

unconfigured virtual machines by using existing site-wide inventory mappings, in one step.

Site Recovery Manager applies site-wide inventory mappings to virtual machines when you create a

protection group or when you add virtual machines to an existing protection group. If you change the site-

wide inventory mappings after you create a protection group or add virtual machines to it, the virtual

machines continue to recover with the original inventory mappings. To apply new inventory mappings, you

must reconfigure protection on the virtual machines in the protection group.

The status of a protection group can be Not Configured for several reasons:

You did not configure site-wide inventory mappings before you created the protection group.

You did not configure placeholder datastore mappings before you created the protection group.

You added virtual machines to a protection group after you created it.

Virtual machines lost their protection, possibly because you reconfigured them after you added them to

a protection group. For example, you added or removed virtual disks or devices.

Prerequisites

Configure or reconfigure site-wide inventory mappings. To select inventory mappings, see Select

Inventory Mappings in Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration.

Configure or reconfigure placeholder datastore mappings. To configure a placeholder datastore, see

Configure a Placeholder Datastore in Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration.

Procedure

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

2 Select a protection group and on the Related Objects tab, click the Virtual Machines tab.

3 Click the Configure All icon.

At least one virtual machine in the protection group must be in the Not Configured state for the

Configure All button to be activated.

4 Click Yes to confirm that you want to apply inventory mappings to all unconfigured virtual machines.

If Site Recovery Manager successfully applied inventory mappings to the virtual machines, the

status of the protection group is OK.

If Site Recovery Manager was unable to apply some or all of the inventory mappings, the status of

the virtual machines is Not Configured or Mapping Missing.

If Site Recovery Manager applied the inventory mappings, but was unable to create placeholders

for virtual machines, the status of the virtual machines is Placeholder VM creation error.

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