In this article, we are going to cover Recovery Plan. We will see how you can create a Recovery plan. A recovery plan specifies how Site Recovery Manager recovers the virtual machines in the protection groups that it contains. You can include one or more protection groups in a recovery plan.
Step by Step Guide: –
- Login to Site Recovery Manager Console. To do so, go to Web Client and Open vCenter Server. Go to Home Page and Click on Site Recovery.
- Under Site Recovery Console, Click on Recovery Plans. You will get Objects tab there. Click on Create Recovery Plans.
- Enter a name for Recovery Plan and Select a location for this recovery plan. Click on Next.
- Select the site to which the VMs in this plan will recover. Here I have choosed my Recovery Site. Click on Next.
- Select Protection Group you want to add to this Recovery Plan. You can add more than one Protection Groups in a Recovery Plan. Click on Next.
- Select the test networks and Click on Next.
- Recovery Plan is Ready to Complete. Click on Finish.
- Review the Recovery Plan under Recovery Plan tab.
That’s all from Site Recovery Manager Configuration part. SRM is ready to execute DR. Now in next article, we will see how to execute test and Disaster Recovery. Stay Tuned.
Take a look in below topics, explore and learn Site Recovery Manager: –
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Learn SRM – Part 1 – Introduction of VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1
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Learn SRM – Part 2 – Understand VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing
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Learn SRM – Part 3 – Understand Minimum Requirement for SRM in your Home Lab
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Learn SRM – Part 4 – Prepare for Replicated Storage in you Home Lab (Ignore this step in Real Environment. You need to interact with Storage team for all these tasks in real environment)
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Learn SRM – Part 4.1 – Deploy HP VSA in Both Site
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Learn SRM – Part 4.2 -Configure HP VSA Appliance Networking in both Site
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Learn SRM – Part 4.3 -Install HP CMC Management Console
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Learn SRM – Part 4.4 -Add Appliance in HP CMC
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Learn SRM – Part 4.5 -Create Management Group in HP VSA
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Learn SRM – Part 4.6 -Create Cluster and Volumes in HP VSA
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Learn SRM – Part 4.7 -Find and Add ISCSI Initiator in ESXi Host
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Learn SRM – Part 4.8 -Assign Volume to ESXi Host
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Learn SRM – Part 4.9 -Scheduling Array Based Replication
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Learn SRM – Part 5 – Install VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 (SRM)
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Learn SRM – Part 6 – Install SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)
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Learn SRM – Part 7 – Configure Site Pairing for both Protected and Recovery Site
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Learn SRM – Part 8 – Configure SRM Array Manager Pairing
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Learn SRM – Part 9 – Configure Resource Mapping in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 10 – Create Placeholder Datastore in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 11 – Configure Protected Groups in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 12 – Configure Recovery Plans in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 13 – Perform Test Drill using VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 14 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 15 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM