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For information about how to create storage policies, see Virtual Machine Storage Policies in the VMware
vSphere ESXi and vCenter Server 6.0 Documentation.
For information about how to create inventory mappings, see “Configure Inventory Mappings,” on page 37.
For information about temporary placeholder mappings, see “Inventory Mappings for Storage Policy
Protection Groups,” on page 34.
For information about known limitations of storage policy protection groups, see “Limitations of Storage
Policy Protection Groups,” on page 50.
Limitations of Storage Policy Protection Groups
Storage policy protection groups are subject to limitations.
Adding Consistency Groups or Virtual Machines After Running a Recovery
Site Recovery Manager does not support the recovery of new consistency groups or virtual machines that
you add to a storage policy protection group that is in the Recovered or Partially Recovered states. Namely,
you cannot add consistency groups or virtual machines to a storage policy protection group if you have
successfully or unsuccessfully run a recovery plan that contains that protection group. Do not add new
consistency groups or virtual machines to a storage policy protection group in the Recovered or Partially
Recovered states. You can add new consistency groups or virtual machines to an existing storage policy
protection group that has never been included in a recovery plan run, or that has only been included in test
recoveries.
When you have run a recovery plan that contains a storage policy protection group, you must include any
new consistency groups or virtual machines in a new storage policy protection group. Remove new
consistency groups or virtual machines from the recovered storage policy protection group before you add
them to a new storage policy protection group. Site Recovery Manager only supports the protection of an
object in a single protection group.
Protecting Virtual Machine Templates
Datastores that are compliant with protected storage policies should not contain virtual machine templates.
Protecting Virtual Machines with RDM Disks
Datastores that are compliant with protected storage policies should not contain virtual machines with RDM
disks.
Duplicate Tags in Enhanced Linked Mode Environments
In an environment that uses Enhanced Linked Mode, if a temporary network partition occurs between
vCenter Server instances, it is possible to create a tag on one site and to create another tag with the same
name on another site. You might then tag one set of datastores on one site with the first tag, and another set
of datastores on the other site with the second, identical tag. Because Site Recovery Manager looks up tags
by name rather than by ID, when the network partition is removed, the datastores on both sites appear to be
tagged with the same tag. If you delete one of the duplicate tags, Site Recovery Manager might remove
protection from the consistency groups that reside in the datastore that bore that tag. The virtual machines
in those consistency groups lose their protection and the recovery settings for the virtual machines are
deleted.
To avoid this situation, resolve tag conflicts before creating storage policy protection groups and
configuring virtual machine recovery settings. If you encounter this situation after you have already created
storage policy protection groups, shut down the protected site temporarily and resolve the tag conflict.
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