Chapter 2. Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans

In the previous chapter, you learned how to install SRM, configure it, and lay the foundation for an SRM protected environment. You learned how to create resource, folder, and network mappings, as well as configure placeholder datastores and array managers. In this chapter, you will learn how to create protection groups and recovery plans.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding datastore groups
  • Understanding protection groups
  • Understanding recovery plans

Once you have done the groundwork required to form an SRM protected environment, the next step is to enable protection on the virtual machines (VMs). Before we delve into the procedural steps involved in protecting ...

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