When you use Site Recovery Manager to configure the protection for virtual machines, you reserve resources on the recovery site by creating placeholders. You map the resources of the protected virtual machines to resources on the recovery site.
About Placeholder Virtual Machines Site Recovery Manager creates a placeholder virtual machine at the recovery site.About Inventory Mappings Site Recovery Manager can create placeholder virtual machines.About Placeholder Datastores Site Recovery Manager creates a placeholder virtual machine at the recovery site. You must identify a datastore on the recovery site in which Site Recovery Manager can store the placeholder virtual machines. Configure Datastore Mappings for vSphere Replication vSphere Replication uses to store replicated virtual machine disks and configuration files at the recovery site.
