Create Recovery Plan

To ensure business continuity and facilitate efficient disaster recovery for your virtual machines, you create a recovery plan for a protection group in a given pairing.

Prerequisites

Verify that your Site Recovery Manager (SRM) connection is authenticated against the protected (local) and recovery (remote) vCenter Server systems. This example uses the $srmConnection variable from Connect to a Local and to a Remote Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Server.
You must have created one or more protection groups on the protected (local) site. This example uses the $protectionGroup variable from Create Protection Group for Host-Based Replication.
You must have the required privileges to create recovery plans on the recovery site.

Procedure

Create the recovery plan spec.

$recPlanSpec = Initialize-SrmRecoveryPlanCreateSpec `
    -Name "<myRecoveryPlanName>" `
    -ProtectedVcGuid $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalVcServer.Id `
    -ProtectionGroups $protectionGroup.Id

Create the recovery plan task.

$task = Invoke-SrmCreatePlan -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
    -RecoveryPlanCreateSpec $recPlanSpec

Monitor the task progress.
```
$task = Invoke-SrmGetTaskInfo -TaskId $task.Id
```
Eventually, the task status changes to SUCCESS.

(Optional) Retrieve the recovery plan you created.

$recoveryPlan = Invoke-SrmGetRecoveryPlan -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
-PlanId $task.Result