A protection group is the container for the application resource groups and remote replication components, which contain data for services that are protected from disaster. The Geographic Edition software protects the data by replicating it from the primary cluster to the secondary cluster. By adding a remote replication component to a protection group, the software monitors the replication status of an appliance project. The software also controls the role and state of the project during protection group operations such as start, stop, switchover, and takeover.
This section provides the following information for administering remote replication components in an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance protection group: