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 protection groups. By piping the output of the $SrmApi.Protection property to the Get-Member cmdlet, we will get a list of the available methods, as shown in the following example.

PowerCLI C:\> $srmApi.Protection | Get-Member

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