Protect a Virtual Machine

You can protect a virtual machine by replicating it to a remote SRM site.

Procedure

1. Connect to the vCenter Server system that the SRM server is registered with.

   Connect-VIServer -Server vc3.example.com -User 'MyAdministratorUser' -Password 'MyPassword'

2. Establish a connection to the local SRM server by providing credentials to the remote SRM site.

   $srmConnection = Connect-SrmServer -RemoteUser 'MyRemoteUser' -RemotePassword 'MyRemotePassword'

3. List all protection groups associated with the SRM server.

   $srmApi = $srmConnection.ExtensionData
   $protectionGroups = $srmApi.Protection.ListProtectionGroups()

4. Associate the TestVM virtual machine with the ProtGroup1 protection group and enable the protection for that virtual machine.

   $vmToAdd = Get-VM "TestVM"
   
   $targetProtectionGroup = $protectionGroups | where {$_.GetInfo().Name -eq "ProtGroup1" }
   
   $targetProtectionGroup.AssociateVms(@($vmToAdd.ExtensionData.MoRef))
   
   # Enable protection for that virtual machine
   $protectionSpec = New-Object VMware.VimAutomation.Srm.Views.SrmProtectionGroupVmProtectionSpec
   $protectionSpec.Vm = $vmToAdd.ExtensionData.MoRef
   $protectTask = $targetProtectionGroup.ProtectVms($protectionSpec)
   while(-not $protectTask.IsComplete()) { sleep -Seconds 1 }