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5 Add new or existing recovery plans to the folder.
Option Description
Create a new recovery plan
Right-click the folder and select Create Recovery Plan.
Add an existing recovery plan
Drag and drop recovery plans from the inventory tree into the folder.
6 (Optional) To rename or delete a folder, right-click the folder and select Rename Folder or Delete
Folder.
You can only delete a folder if it is empty.
Edit a Recovery Plan
You can edit a recovery plan to change the properties that you specified when you created it. You can edit
recovery plans from the protected site or from the recovery site.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery > Recovery Plans.
2 Right-click a recovery plan, and select Edit Plan.
You can also edit a recovery plan by clicking the Edit recovery plan icon in the Recovery Steps view in
the Monitor tab.
3 (Optional) Change the name or description of the plan in the Recovery Plan Name text box, and click
Next.
4 On the Recovery site page, click Next.
You cannot change the recovery site.
5 (Optional) Select or deselect one or more protection groups to add them to or remove them from the
plan, and click Next.
6 (Optional) Click the test network to select a different test network on the recovery site, and click Next.
7 Review the summary information and click Finish to make the specified changes to the recovery plan.
You can monitor the update of the plan in the Recent Tasks view.
Test a Recovery Plan
When you test a recovery plan, Site Recovery Manager runs the virtual machines of the recovery plan on a
test network and on a temporary snapshot of replicated data at the recovery site. Site Recovery Manager
does not disrupt operations at the protected site.
Testing a recovery plan runs all the steps in the plan, except for powering down virtual machines at the
protected site and forcing devices at the recovery site to assume mastership of replicated data. If the plan
requires the suspension of local virtual machines at the recovery site, Site Recovery Manager suspends those
virtual machines during the test. Running a test of a recovery plan makes no other changes to the
production environment at either site.
Testing a recovery plan creates a snapshot on the recovery site of all of the disk files of the virtual machines
in the recovery plan. The creation of the snapshots adds to the I/O latency on the storage. If you notice
slower response times when you test recovery plans and you are using VMware Virtual SAN storage,
monitor the I/O latency by using the monitoring tool in the Virtual SAN interface.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery > Recovery Plans, and select a recovery plan.
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