After you create a protection group for the cloud management platform VMs, you create a recovery plan. Use this plan to configure dependencies between the virtual machines. 

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Management vCenter Server by using the vSphere Web Client.
    1. Open a Web browser and go to https://sfo01m01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local/vsphere-client.
    2. Log in using the following credentials.

      Setting

      Value

      User name

      administrator@vsphere.local

      Password

      vsphere_admin_password

  2. From the Home menu of the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery.
  3. On the Site Recovery home page, click Sites and double-click the sfo01m01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local protected site.
  4. On the Related Objects tab, click the Recovery Plans tab and click the Create Recovery Plan icon.

    The Create Recovery Plan wizard appears.

  5. On the Name and location page, configure the following settings and click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    Name

    SDDC Cloud Management RP

    Description

    Recovery Plan for vRealize Automation and vRealize Business

    Site pair

    sfo01m01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local - lax01m01vc01.lax01.rainpole.local

  6. On the Recovery Site page, select lax01m01vc01.lax01.rainpole.local as the recovery site and click Next.
  7. On the Protection groups page, select the protection group for the recovery plan and click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    Group type

    VM protection groups

    Protection group

    SDDC Cloud Management PG

  8. On the Test networks page, leave the default values and click Next.

    The default option automatically creates an isolated test network.

  9. On the Ready to complete page, click Finish.

Results

The SDDC Cloud Management RP recovery plan appears in the list of available recovery plans in Site Recovery Manager.