Create Protection Group and Recovery Plan for ABR

To ensure business continuity and facilitate efficient disaster recovery for your virtual machines with array-based replication, you create protection groups and recovery plans.

Prerequisites

Verify that your SRM connection is authenticated against the protected and recovery vCenter Server systems. This example uses the $srmConnection variable from Connect to a Local and to a Remote Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Server.
Verify that you created a replicated array pair for the protected (local) and recovery (remote) SRM sites. This example uses the variables from Create Replicated Array Pair
You must have the required privileges to create protection groups and recovery plans on the recovery site.

Procedure

Discover the storage devices of the replicated array pair.

$task = Invoke-SrmDiscoverStorageDevices -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
   -SrmId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalSrmServer.Id `
   -ArrayPairId $replicatedArrayPair.Id

Monitor the task progress.
```
$task = Invoke-SrmGetTaskInfo -TaskId $task.Id
```
$task.Status eventually changes to SUCCESS.

Retrieve the storage devices from the replicated array pair.

$storageDevices = Invoke-SrmGetStorageDevices -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
   -SrmId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalSrmServer.Id `
   -ArrayPairId $replicatedArrayPair.Id

Prepare the ABR protection group spec.

This example uses the replicated array pair with a single storage device and a single datastore created in Create Replicated Array Pair.
```
$abrProtectionGroupSpec = Initialize-SrmAbrProtectionGroupSpec `
   -ReplicatedArrayPair $replicatedArrayPair.Id `
   -Datastores $storageDevices.StorageDevicesData[0].Datastores[0].Id
```

Prepare the protection group create spec.

For the ReplicationType parameter, specify ABR.

$protectionGroupSpec = Initialize-SrmProtectionGroupCreateSpec -Name "<MyAbrProtectionGroup>" `
   -ReplicationType ABR `
   -ProtectedVcGuid $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalVcServer.Id `
   -AbrSpec $abrProtectionGroupSpec

Create the ABR protection group.

$task = Invoke-SrmCreateGroup -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
   -ProtectionGroupCreateSpec $protectionGroupSpec

Monitor the task progress.
```
$task = Invoke-SrmGetTaskInfo -TaskId $task.Id
```
$task.Status eventually changes to SUCCESS.

(Optional) Retrieve the ABR protection group.

$protectionGroup = Invoke-SrmGetGroup -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `
   -GroupId $task.Result

Prepare the recovery plan create spec.

$recPlanSpec = Initialize-SrmRecoveryPlanCreateSpec `
   -Name "<MyAbrRecoveryPlan>" `
   -ProtectedVcGuid $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.LocalVcServer.Id `
   -ProtectionGroups @($protectionGroup.Id)

Create the recovery plan.

$task = Invoke-SrmCreatePlan -PairingId $srmConnection.ConnectedPairing.PairingId `  
   -RecoveryPlanCreateSpec $recPlanSpec

Monitor the task progress.
```
$task = Invoke-SrmGetTaskInfo -TaskId $task.Id
```
$task.Status eventually changes to SUCCESS.