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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 includes the virtual machine that you
want to configure.
4 On the Virtual Machines page, right-click a virtual machine and click Configure Protection.
5 In the Edit Virtual Machine Properties window, review and configure properties as needed.
a In the resource list, click Folder to review the recovery site folder to which this virtual machine is
assigned.
If inventory mappings have not been established for this site, you can edit this property.
b Click Next to review the recovery site host to which the virtual machine is assigned.
If inventory mappings have not been established for this site, you can edit this property.
c Click Next to review the recovery site resource pool to which this virtual machine is assigned.
If inventory mappings have not been established for this site, you can edit this property.
d Click Next to review the recovery site networks to which this virtual machine is assigned.
If inventory mappings have not been established for this site, you can edit this property.
e Click Next to review the list of storage devices attached to the virtual machine and verify that they
are all in the same datastore group or have appropriate storage on a nonreplicated datastore at the
recovery site.
If any device has a Recovery Location that has a status of Not Configured, click Browse to find an
appropriate datastore at the recovery site, or click Detach to detach the device during recovery.
f Click Next to review the datastore that you originally selected for the placeholder virtual machines
in the protection group.
If inventory mappings have not been established for this site, you can edit this property.
g Select a customization specification. Click Browse to see a list of customization specifications available
from the vCenter at the recovery site.
You can also enter a description of the specification you apply. Only the IP properties from the selected
specification are applied. All other properties in the specification are ignored. If you have used the
dr-ip-customizer.exe command to customize virtual machines in the recovery plan, you do not need
to specify that customization here.
h Click Next to select a recovery priority group for the virtual machine. See “Specify Virtual Machine
Recovery Priority,” on page 50.
i Click Next to add a message or command step that executes before the machine is powered on.
j Click Next to add a message or command step that executes before the machine is powered on.
6 Click Finish to apply the new configuration to the selected virtual machine.
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