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Creating protection groups, Creating a recovery plan – Dell PowerVault MD3260i User Manual

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2.

Select the protected site and click Rescan SRAs.

3.

Select the recovery site and click Rescan SRAs.

4.

Select either the Protected or Recovery spindle in the Array Managers view.

5.

Select the Array Pairs tab.

6.

Click Enable to activate the SRA on both the protected and recovery sites.
The SRAs should be loaded into SRM. Check the Summary tab to ensure that they display properly.

Creating Protection Groups

The final configuration step at the protected site is to create Protection Groups for the VMs that you want to include in
the recovery solution. SRM associates datastore groups with protection groups to collect any files related to virtual
machine failover.

1.

In Protection Groups view, select Create Protection Group.

2.

In the Select Site and Protection Group Type, select the protected site.

Figure 16. Creating a Protection Group

3.

In Protection Group Type, select the Array based replication (SAN) option.

4.

Select one or more datastore groups from the list, then click Next.

5.

Enter a name and optional description for the protection group, then click Next .

6.

Click Finish to create the protection group.

Creating A Recovery Plan

The final step in the solution configuration process is to create a recovery plan in the recovery site.

1.

In Recovery Plans view, select Create a Recovery Plan.

2.

In the Recovery Site window, choose the recovery site.

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