Recovery plans are plans that describe the steps to be performed during the execution of a recovery. You can use a recovery plan for a planned migration or a disaster recovery. A recovery plan contains the following information:
The name of the recovery plan
The location (paired sites) of the recovery plan
A protected site
The site to which virtual machines in the plan will recover
The protection groups to use for the recovery plan
The networks to use while running tests of the plan
The description of the recovery plan
Steps to perform during the execution of the recovery plan
A recovery plan can include one or more protection groups. A protection group can be included in more than one recovery plan.
The steps of the recovery plan can be divided into the following:
Test steps
Recovery steps
Cleanup steps
Reprotect steps
In the following sections, Retrieving recovery plans and Running recovery plans, you will learn how to retrieve and run recovery plans. You will also see how to...