Understanding recovery plans

Recovery plans are created at the recovery site. They are accessible and can be run from the recovery site when there is a disaster at the protected site. A recovery plan is executed to failover the virtual machine workload that was running at the protected site, to the recovery site. It can also be used to perform planned migrations. A recovery plan is a series of configuration steps that has to be performed to failover the protected VMs to the recovery site.

Note

A recovery plan should be associated with at least one protection group.

Creating a recovery plan

Once you have created protection groups, the next step would be to create a recovery plan for these protection groups. A recovery plan can be created either from ...

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