Create a Recovery Plan

You create a recovery plan to establish how Site Recovery Manager recovers virtual machines.

Procedure

1. In the vSphere Client or the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Open Site Recovery.
2. On the Site Recovery home tab, select a site pair and click View Details.
3. Select the Recovery Plans tab, and click New to create a recovery plan.
4. Enter a name, description and direction for the plan, select a folder and the direction of protection then click Next.
5. Select the group type from the menu.

   Option	Description
   Protection groups for individual VMs or datastore groups	Select this option to create a recovery plan that contains array-based replication and vSphere Replication protection groups.
   Storage policy protection groups	Select this option to create a recovery plan that contains storage policy protection groups.

   The default is Protection groups for individual VMs or datastore groups.
   Note: If using stretched storage, select Storage policy protection groups for the group type.
6. Select one or more protection groups for the plan to recover, and click Next.
7. From the Test Network drop-down menu, select a network to use during test recovery, and click Next.
   If there are no site-level mappings, the default option Use site-level mapping creates an isolated test network automatically.
8. Review the summary information and click Finish to create the recovery plan.