4.7.2 Site Recovery Manager Inventory Mappings
Inventory mappings provide default objects in the inventory on the recovery site for the recovered virtual machines to use when you run recovery.
For array-based protection and vSphere Replication protection, if you configure site-wide inventory mappings before you create protection groups, you do not have to configure protection individually on each virtual machine when you create a protection group. Site Recovery Manager applies the site-wide mappings to all virtual machines in an array-based replication protection group or a vSphere Replication protection group at the moment that you create the protection group.
When you use storage policy protection, Site Recovery Manager applies inventory mappings at the moment that a recovery plan runs. You cannot configure protection individually on the virtual machines in a storage policy protection group. As a consequence, you must configure site-wide inventory mappings if you use storage policy protection.
When creating a vCenter Server pair, the administrator must map resources, such as virtual port groups (logical switches), and so on. The following table lists the typical resources that must be mapped for Site Recovery Manager.
Table 10. Site Recovery Manager Inventory Mapping Types
Inventory Category | Description |
Network mapping | Map networks on the protected site to networks on the recovery site. |
Folder mapping | Map data centers or virtual machine folders on the protected site to data centers or virtual machine folders on the recovery site. |
Resource Mapping | Map resource pools, standalone hosts, vApps, or clusters on the protected site to resource pools, standalone hosts, vApps, or clusters on the recovery site. You can map any type of resource on one site to any type of resource on the other site. Note: You cannot map individual hosts that are part of clusters to other resource objects. |