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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:
 
  1. 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.
Protection Groups 
  1. On the Virtual Machines tab, identify the VMs and the replicated devices that are protected. 
Identify the VMs and the replicated devices  
  1. Note down the datastores of the replicated devices in Discover devices of Array Pair. This information is required later.
Note down the datastores of the replicated devices
  1. Upgrade SRM to 8.5 as mentioned in VMware document: Update the Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance (vmware.com). Third party link icon
Upgrade SRM 
  1. Delete the protection group identified in step 1.
Delete the protection group
  1. Create a new protection group with Type Datastore groups and click Next.
Create a new protection group with Type Datastore groups
  1. Select the datastores that are identified in step 3 and click Next.
Select the datastores
  1. Add the new protection group to existing recovery plan and click Next.
Add the new protection group
  1. Click Finish to complete the process.
Click Finish
  1. Summary tab of new protection group shows type Datastore groups.
Summary tab
  1. VMs listed in Virtual Machines tab are the same as in step 2.
VMs listed in Virtual Machines tab
 

Affected Products

Compellent (SC, SCv & FS Series)
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Article Number: 000202315
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 12 May 2023
Version:  4
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Last Modified: 12 May 2023
Version:  4
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