You create protection groups to enable Site Recovery Manager to protect virtual machines.
You can organize protection groups in folders. The Protection Groups tab displays the names of the protection groups, but does not display in which folder they are placed. If you have two protection groups with the same name in different folders, it might be difficult to tell them apart. Consequently, ensure that protection group names are unique across all folders. In environments in which not all users have view privileges for all folders, to be sure of the uniqueness of protection group names, do not place protection groups in folders.
When you create protection groups, wait to ensure that the operations finish as expected. Make sure that Site Recovery Manager creates the protection group and that the protection of the virtual machines in the group is successful.
Prerequisites
Verify that you performed one of the following tasks:
- Included virtual machines in datastores for which you configured array-based replication
- Satisfied the requirements in Prerequisites for Storage Policy Protection Groups and reviewed the Limitations of Storage Policy Protection Groups.
- Configured vSphere Replication on virtual machines.
- Performed a combination of some or all of the above.
Procedure
What to do next
For array-based replication and vSphere Replication protection groups, if the protection status of the protection group is Not Configured, apply inventory mappings to the virtual machines:
- To apply site-wide inventory mappings, or to check that inventory mappings that you have already set are valid, seeSite Recovery Manager Administration. To apply these mappings to all the virtual machines, see Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group.
- To apply inventory mappings to each virtual machine in the protection group individually, see Configure Inventory Mappings for an Individual Virtual Machine.
For storage policy protection groups, if the protection status of the protection group is Not Configured, verify that you satisfied the prerequisites in Prerequisities for Storage Policy Protection, review Limitations of Storage Policy Protection Groups, modify the storage policy implementation accordingly, and attempt to recreate the protection group.