vCenter Mapping

Mapping vCenters in a recovery plan consists of selecting vCenters registered to the protected site.

You must map all source vCenters that contain VMs protected by protection groups to a target vCenter on a recovery SDDC.

Every recovery plan has vCenter mappings for the following three objects:

• vCenter folders
• Compute resources
• Virtual networks

vCenter Folders Object Inventory Mapping

The recovery plan displays a subset of the vCenter object inventory item for both the protected and recovery vCenters. You must map source vCenter object nodes that contain protected VMs, which are displayed in the UI with blue text. All other mappings are optional.

To add a mapping, select the source vCenter node and the corresponding target vCenter node indicating where the source VMs are recovered. Then, click Add. Complete this step for each mapping, and then click OK when finished.

Note: If your VMs on the protected vSphere site have tags associated with them, make sure that the same sets of tags and tag categories also exist on the target site of the plan (the recovery SDDC).

Important: Avoid having other VMs in target folders on the recovery SDDC, because name conflicts can arise when registering VMs with vCenter.