Managing protection groups

SRM protection groups are groups of virtual machines that SRM protects together. One or more protection groups can be included in a recovery plan. Recovery plans will be discussed in more detail in the section Managing recovery plans in this chapter.

There are three types of protection groups:

  • Array-based replication protection groups
  • vSphere replication protection groups
  • Storage policy protection groups

You cannot combine virtual machines replicated by array-based replication and vSphere replication in the same protection group. You cannot protect virtual machines with SRM for which you did not configure array-based or vSphere replication.

The Protection property of the $SrmApi variable contains methods to create and retrieve ...

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