The placeholder virtual machine on the recovery site still exists after you delete the protection group and recovery plan
When
you delete the recovery plan and protection group from the
Site
Recovery Manager
inventory, the placeholder VM might still be visible
on the recovery site. When you
delete the recovery plan and protection group from the
Site
Recovery Manager
inventory, the placeholder VM is still
visible on the recovery site. An error occurs when you try to create a new
protection group with the same datastore and virtual machine. When you try to
manually delete the placeholder virtual machine from the vCenter Server
inventory, an error occurs.
Site
Recovery Manager
marks the
virtual machine as orphaned.Delete the placeholder virtual machine and remove the orphaned virtual machine, then
create the protection group with the same virtual
machine.