Configuring a Recovery
Plan
You can configure
a recovery plan to run commands on
Site
Recovery Manager Server
or on a virtual machine, display messages that require a
response when the plan runs on the
Site
Recovery Manager Server
or in the guest OS, suspend non-essential virtual machines
during recovery, configure dependencies between virtual machines, customize
virtual machine network settings, and change the recovery priority of protected
virtual machines.
A simple recovery plan that
specifies only a test network to which the recovered virtual machines connect
and timeout values for waiting for virtual machines to power on and be
customized can provide an effective way to test a
Site
Recovery Manager
configuration.
Most recovery plans require
configuration for use in production. For example, a recovery plan for an
emergency at the protected site might be different from a recovery plan for the
planned migration of services from one site to another.
A recovery plan always
reflects the current state of the protection groups that it recovers. If any
members of a protection group show a status other than OK, you must correct the
problems before you can make any changes to the recovery plan.
When a recovery plan is
running, its state reflects the state of the recovery plan run, rather than the
state of the protection groups that it contains.