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5. The Site Recovery Summary tab now indicates that one protection group has been created.
Note that in vCenter at the DR site a placeholder virtual machine has been created for each virtual
machine that was in the protection group. These virtual machines have .vmx configuration files stored in
vmware_temp_dr, but they have no virtual disks attached to them.
6.7 CREATING A RECOVERY PLAN
Recovery plans are created in the vCenter server at the DR site. Each recovery plan contains one or more
of the protection groups created at the primary site. All of the protection groups contained in a recovery plan
will be recovered by SRM when that plan is executed.
1. In the vCenter server at the DR site click the Create link next to Recovery Plans. Enter a name for this
recovery plan and click Next.
2. The protection group created at the primary site will be shown in the dialog box. Select the group and
click Next.
3. If necessary, adjust the virtual machine response times. These are the times allotted that SRM will wait
for a response from VMware tools in the guest to indicate that the virtual machine has completed power
on. It’s generally not necessary to adjust these values.
4. Configure a test network to use when running tests of this recovery plan. If the test network for a
recovery network is set to Auto, then SRM will automatically create a “test bubble” network to connect to
the virtual machines during a DR test. However, if a “DR test bubble network” already exists in this