Create Protection Group and Recovery Plan for ABR

To ensure business continuity and facilitate efficient disaster recovery for your virtual machines with array-based replication, you create protection groups and recovery plans.

Prerequisites

• Verify that your SRM connection is authenticated against the protected and recovery vCenter Server systems. This example uses the $srmConnection variable from Connect to a Local and to a Remote Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Server.

• Verify that you created a replicated array pair for the protected (local) and recovery (remote) SRM sites. This example uses the variables from Create Replicated Array Pair

• You must have the required privileges to create protection groups and recovery plans on the recovery site.

Procedure

1. Discover the storage devices of the replicated array pair.

   $task = Invoke-SrmDiscoverStorageDevices -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
      -SrmId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalSrmServer.Id `
      -ArrayPairId $replicatedArrayPair.Id
    

2. Monitor the task progress.

   $task = Invoke-SrmGetTaskInfo -TaskId $task.Id

   $task.Status eventually changes to SUCCESS.

3. Retrieve the storage devices from the replicated array pair.

   $storageDevices = Invoke-SrmGetStorageDevices -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
      -SrmId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalSrmServer.Id `
      -ArrayPairId $replicatedArrayPair.Id

4. Prepare the ABR protection group spec.

   This example uses the replicated array pair with a single storage device and a single datastore created in Create Replicated Array Pair.

   $abrProtectionGroupSpec = Initialize-SrmAbrProtectionGroupSpec `
      -ReplicatedArrayPair $replicatedArrayPair.Id `
      -Datastores $storageDevices.StorageDevicesData[0].Datastores[0].Id

5. Prepare the protection group create spec.
   For the ReplicationType parameter, specify ABR.

   $protectionGroupSpec = Initialize-SrmProtectionGroupCreateSpec -Name "<MyAbrProtectionGroup>" `
      -ReplicationType ABR `
      -ProtectedVcGuid $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalVcServer.Id `
      -AbrSpec $abrProtectionGroupSpec

6. Create the ABR protection group.

   $task = Invoke-SrmCreateGroup -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
      -ProtectionGroupCreateSpec $protectionGroupSpec

7. Monitor the task progress.

   $task = Invoke-SrmGetTaskInfo -TaskId $task.Id

   $task.Status eventually changes to SUCCESS.

8. (Optional) Retrieve the ABR protection group.

   $protectionGroup = Invoke-SrmGetGroup -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
      -GroupId $task.Result

9. Prepare the recovery plan create spec.

   $recPlanSpec = Initialize-SrmRecoveryPlanCreateSpec `
      -Name "<MyAbrRecoveryPlan>" `
      -ProtectedVcGuid $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalVcServer.Id `
      -ProtectionGroups @($protectionGroup.Id)

10. Create the recovery plan.

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

11. Monitor the task progress.

    $task = Invoke-SrmGetTaskInfo -TaskId $task.Id

    $task.Status eventually changes to SUCCESS.