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3. Verify that all the primary resources have the associated corresponding secondary resources.
4. Each of the connection, array managers, and inventory preferences steps in the Setup section of the
Summary tab should now indicate Connected or Configured.
5. Proceed with building a protection group.
6.6 BUILDING A PROTECTION GROUP
Protection groups allow virtual machines to be collected in groups that will be recovered together. Protection
groups are created on the primary site vCenter server and identify which datastores and virtual machines
are protected and will be recovered with SRM. In a NetApp environment, using volume SnapMirror (VSM),
replication occurs at the FlexVol level. Therefore, SRM protection groups may be easily built using FlexVol
volumes as the basis of grouping virtual machines.
1. At the primary site vCenter server, click the Create link next to Protection Groups: Enter a name for the
protection group and click Next.
2. Select the datastores to be protected by this group. In this case, the SnapMirror datastore vmware_prod
is selected. The virtual machines that will be protected are displayed at the bottom in the window.
3. SRM creates placeholder virtual machines in the environment at the DR site. In the next step, select a
datastore that will contain the placeholder virtual machines. In this case, a datastore called
vmware_temp_dr has already been created at the DR site for the purpose of storing the placeholder
virtual machines. This datastore need only be large enough to contain a placeholder .vmx file for each
virtual machine that will be part of a protection group. During DR tests and real DR failovers the actual