Managing recovery plans
Recovery plans are plans that describe the steps to be performed during the execution of a recovery. You can use a recovery plan for a planned migration or a disaster recovery. A recovery plan contains the following information:
- The name of the recovery plan
- The location (paired sites) of the recovery plan
- A protected site
- The site to which virtual machines in the plan will recover
- The protection groups to use for the recovery plan
- The networks to use while running tests of the plan
- The description of the recovery plan
- Steps to perform during the execution of the recovery plan
A recovery plan can include one or more protection groups. A protection group can be included in more than one recovery plan.
The steps of the recovery plan can be divided into the following:
- Test steps
- Recovery steps
- Cleanup steps
- Reprotect steps
In the following sections, Retrieving recovery plans and Running recovery plans, you will learn how to retrieve and run recovery plans. You will also see how to...