vVol Storage Policy Based Protection Groups

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Starting with Site Recovery Manager 8.3, vVol-based virtual machines protected by FlashArray periodic replication can be added to SRM protection groups.

To see the configuration steps of vVols and vVol replication, refer to SRM User Guide: Configuring Site Recovery Manager vVol-Based Storage Policy Discovery.

To create a vVol-based protection group, login to SRM and click on Protection Groups, then New.

Give the protection group a name and description, then click Next.

Then choose Virtual Volumes (vVol replication). Below, SRM will then list all discovered replication sources (in this case a FlashArray) for the previously selected source vCenter. Choose one and click Next.

The next screen will show all available replication groups and the VMs assigned to them. Choose one or more. Empty groups can be filtered out by clicking the filter slider at the bottom:

Note:

Do not add a replication group that has more than one FlashArray replication targets. VMware SRM does not support replication groups that replicate to more than one target at this time.

Complete the process by adding it to an existing recovery plan or a new one.