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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

By : Abhilash G B
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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a Recovery Plan


Once you have Protection Groups created, the next step would be to create a Recovery Plan for these Protection Groups. The Recovery Plan should be created at the recovery site SRM. This is because, in the event of a disaster, the protected site may become inaccessible. Hence, for very obvious reasons, a Recovery Plan is always created at the recovery site. The following steps show you how to create a Recovery Plan:

  1. Navigate to the vCenter Server's inventory home and click on Site Recovery.

  2. Click on Recovery Plans [A] on the left pane.

  3. Click on Create Recovery Plan [B] to bring up the Create Recovery Plan wizard as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. In the Create Recovery Plan wizard, select the Recovery Site and click on Next to continue. If the Recovery Plan wizard is initiated at a site, then the wizard will select the other site in the site pair as the recovery site. For example, if you were to initiate the Recovery Plan wizard at SITE-A, then the wizard will autoselect...