System information

2 On the Related Objects > Recovery Plans tab, click the icon to create a recovery plan.
3 Enter a name for the plan, select a location, then click Next.
4 Select the recovery site and click Next.
5 Select one or more protection groups for the plan to recover, and click Next.
6 Select a test network for the virtual machines whose configured recovery network is the selected
recovery network identified by the datacenter and recovery network. The test network can be only from
the same datacenter and the default is Auto.
Option Action
Datacenter
Select the datacenter to which virtual machines recover.
Recovery Network
Select the network to use for planned migration and disaster recovery.
Test Network
Select the test network to use for recovery plan tests.
7 Click Next.
8 (Optional) Add a description for the recovery plan and click Next.
9 Review the summary information and click Finish to create the recovery plan.
Edit a Recovery Plan
You can edit a recovery plan to change the properties that you specified when you created it. You can edit
recovery plans from the protected site or from the recovery site.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery > Recovery Plans.
2 Right-click a recovery plan, and select Edit Plan. You can also edit the plan from the Recovery Steps
tab.
3 (Optional) Change the name of the plan in the Recovery Plan Name text box, and click Next.
4 On the Recovery site page, click Next.
You cannot change the recovery site.
5 (Optional) Select or deselect one or more protection groups to add them to or remove them from the
plan, and click Next.
6 (Optional) Change the recovery site test network settings.
a Select the configured network settings and click Remove.
b Select a new test network for any recovery network.
7 Click Next.
8 (Optional) Enter or modify the description for the plan and click Next.
9 Review the summary information and click Finish to make the specified changes to the recovery plan.
You can monitor the update of the plan in the Recent Tasks view.
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