You use the Storage Policy Protection Group (SPPG) migration tool to migrate storage policy protection groups to regular array-based replication protection groups.

The Storage Policy Protection Group migration tool preserves the information for the current migration tasks and if there is an unexpected failure, you can rerun the migrate command and resume the failed task. An example of an unexpected error might include network or electricity glitches.
Note: If there is an SPPG with errors and there are other SPPGs with no errors, the tool attempts to migrate the groups and recovery plans that have no errors.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have checked your storage policy protection groups for errors. You must fix all errors for the migration of an SPPG to complete successfully.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Site Recovery Manager appliance host virtual machine as root.
  2. Navigate to /opt/vmware/srm/bin, and run the following command.
    1. (Optional) For a vCenter Server instance with an internal Platform Services Controller, run the following command ./migrate-sppg -cmd migrate -vc FQDN_of_the_vCenter_Server -srm FQDN_of_Site_Recovery_Manger.
    2. (Optional) For a vCenter Server instance with an internal Platform Services Controller and a specified user, run the following command ./migrate-sppg -cmd migrate -vc FQDN_of_the_vCenter_Server -srm FQDN_of_Site_Recovery_Manger -u [email protected].
    3. (Optional) For a vCenter Server instance with an external Platform Services Controller, run the following command ./migrate-sppg -cmd migrate -vc FQDN_of_the_vCenter_Server -psc FQDN_of_Platform_Services_Controller -srm FQDN_of_Site_Recovery_Manger.
  3. Accept the SHA2 thumbprints of the certificates and provide the required credentials.
  4. Confirm that you want to proceed with the migration of protection groups without errors.
  5. Confirm that you want to reconfigure the related recovery plans.