Create SRM Recovery Plan

introdction

now after we completed all 5 aspects of inventory mapping ,

we will discuss the second part of configuring SRM :

create recovery plan
create protection group
protect VM
Running SRM Test Recovery
Cleaning up Test Recovery

what is recovery plan

vCenter Site recovery manager recovery plan is a automated plan for recovering protected VM s to the recovery site.

SRM should include at least

One recovery plan
One protection group

SRM recovery plan includes one or more protection groups. > even You can include a protection group in more than one recovery plan.

You create one recovery plan to handle a planned migration or other can be created only to recovery specific application or services by only including specific protection groups as part of the recovery plan.

Recovery plans can be used for Test recovery, planned migration to the recovery site or for disaster recovery.

Recovery plan components:

A vCenter Site Recovery Manager Recovery plan includes the following information:

A list of VM s from protection groups
A startup and priority order for those VM s
Any custom steps added before or after VM startup

You can configure the recovery plans to include custom actions during recovery like

IP customization for VM s,
Custom scripts before VM start up
and you can define the priority of VM s, etc.
Recovery plans can be configured to use an isolated internal network for testing.

Automatically generated virtual switches have no physical adapters. When you are performing the test recovery, You can use the isolated network for the recovered VM s to connect to avoid disturbance to the production VM s.