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6 On the Datastore for Placeholder VMs page, select a datastore group from the list.
The datastores listed on this page exist only at the recovery site. None of them are replicated from the
protected site. The datastore that you select is used to hold the files that constitute the placeholder virtual
machines. These files are not large, so any datastore that is accessible to the recovery site host and cluster
can be an appropriate choice.
7 Click Finish to create the protection group.
SRM creates a protection group that includes all of the virtual machines on the datastore you selected in
Step 5. Placeholders are created and inventory mappings applied for each member of the group. If a group
member cannot be mapped to a folder, network, and resource pool on the recovery site, it is listed with a status
of Mapping Missing, and a placeholder cannot be created for it.
Edit a Protection Group
You can change the name of a protection group and its default recovery site datastore.
Procedure
1 Open a vSphere Client and connect to the vCenter server at the protected site.
Log in as a vSphere administrator.
2 On the vSphere Client Home page, click the Site Recovery icon.
3 In the Site Recovery tree view, navigate to the protection group that you want to edit.
4 Right-click the group and click Edit.
NOTE If you change the datastore for Placeholder VMs, that change applies only to new members added
to the protection group. To change the datastore used by existing placeholders, connect to the recovery
site with a vSphere Client and use the vSphere Datastores page to migrate the placeholder to a new
datastore.
Adding and Removing Members of a Protection Group
When you create a protection group, it includes all the virtual machines on the selected datastore. You can add
or remove protection group members by adding or moving virtual machines to the datastore, or by removing
them from the datastore.
All virtual machines and templates that reside on a protected datastore are part of the protection group that
applies to that datastore. There is no explicit add or remove operation to change group membership. The
contents of the datastore implicitly specify the membership of the protection group.
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To add a new virtual machine or template to a protection group, create it on the protected datastore and
then configure protection for it.
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To add an existing virtual machine to a protection group, use Storage VMotion to move it to the protected
datastore and then configure protection for it.
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To remove a virtual machine or template from a protection group, remove it from the protected datastore.
NOTE When you add a virtual machine or template to a protected datastore, it has an initial status of Not
Configured in the protection group. You must configure protection for the new group member by applying
inventory mappings if they exist, or by configuring resource mappings for it individually.
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