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4 On the Name and Description page of the Create Protection Group wizard, type a name and optional
description for the protection group, and click Next.
5 On the Select a Datastore Group page, select a datastore group from the list, and click Next
.
The datastores listed were discovered when you configured the array managers. Each datastore in the list
is replicated to the recovery site and supports at least one virtual machine at the protected site. When you
select a datastore, the virtual machines that it supports are listed in the VMs on the selected datastore
group field, and are automatically included in the protection group.
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.
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