SC Series: SRM Migrating from Storage Policy to Datastore Protection Group for Stretched Storage
Summary: With Site Recovery Manager 8.5, VMware is moving away from storage policy protection groups and moving towards datastore group protection groups for stretched storage. It is recommended to delete and replace any existing storage policy-based protections group to ensure that no recovery plan is run against them with SRM 8.5. ...
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Instructions
See the steps below for migration:
- Identify the protection group that must be migrated. The type should be storage policies. Note down the Virtual Machines count in protection group details. This information is required later.
- On the Virtual Machines tab, identify the VMs and the replicated devices that are protected.
- Note down the datastores of the replicated devices in Discover devices of Array Pair. This information is required later.
- Upgrade SRM to 8.5 as mentioned in VMware document: Update the Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance (vmware.com).
- Delete the protection group identified in step 1.
- Create a new protection group with Type Datastore groups and click Next.
- Select the datastores that are identified in step 3 and click Next.
- Add the new protection group to existing recovery plan and click Next.
- Click Finish to complete the process.
- Summary tab of new protection group shows type Datastore groups.
- VMs listed in Virtual Machines tab are the same as in step 2.
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Compellent (SC, SCv & FS Series)Article Properties
Article Number: 000202315
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 12 May 2023
Version: 4
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