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After a protection has been created and the virtual machines have been successfully protected,
placeholder virtual machines will be visible in the vCenter Server inventory at the recovery site.
The presence of placeholders provides a visual indication to Site Recovery Manager
administrators that virtual machines are protected. Placeholder virtual machines have a unique
icon in vSphere Web Client.
Figure 15. Placeholder Virtual Machines.
For more details, see Creating and Managing Protection Groups in the Site Recovery Manager
documentation.
Exercise 6: Create a Recovery Plan
After you configure Site Recovery Manager at the protected and recovery sites and you have
created at least one protection group, you can create a recovery plan. A recovery plan controls
every step of the recovery process, including the order in which virtual machines are recovered,
IP address changes, and so on. Protection groups are created at the protected site. As one
might expect, recovery plans are created at the recovery site.
A recovery plan must contain one or more protection groups. A protection group can be part of
more than one recovery plan. For example, there are two protection groups: Accounting and
Email. Three recovery plans can be created: The Accounting recovery plan containing the
Accounting protection group, the Email recovery plan containing the Email protection group,
and the Entire Site recovery plan containing both protection groups.