VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 Configuring a Protection Group

In Part 7 of this VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 Tutorial Series, we will be running through how to create a Protection Group.

VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Creating a Protection Group

1. Within VMware Site Recovery Manager 5, click on Protection Groups on the left hand side.


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2. Click on Create Protection Group on the left hand side window. I will select the Protected Site as Primary Site Lab and the Protection Group Type will be Array based replication (SAN). As you can see below, under Array Pair I select the San1 paired with san2 pair. Click Next.


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3. In this step I select the Datastore that is being replicated, in this case the name is vmware_datastore. This datastore contains 2 virtual machines, Windows 2008 Web 1 and Windows 2008 Web 2. Click Next.


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4. Let’s name this Protection Group VMware Primary Servers and give it a description, Contains Web1 and Web2. Click Next.


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5. Here is a summary of your settings for the Protection Group. Click Finish.


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6. Your new Protection Group name VMware Primary Servers has now been completed.


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7. If we click on the Virtual Machines Tab, we can see that our Web 1 and Web 2 servers are included in this Protection Group. You have now successfully setup a Protection Group within VMware Site Recovery Manager 5


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Continue onto Part 8 VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 Recovery Plans

Disclaimer:
All the tutorials included on this site are performed in a lab environment to simulate a real world production scenario. As everything is done to provide the most accurate steps to date, we take no responsibility if you implement any of these steps in a production environment.

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