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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