Today I performed some failovers with my customer using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and one of requirement was the protection of VMs grouped in vApp. SRM using vSphere Replication or array-based replication can protect VMs from vApp, however, SRM still does not understand vApp (there is no mapping of vApp objects at the recovery site to vApps the Protected Site) and if you need to protect it properly, you have to perform some manual steps. In my case, we wanted to failover EMC ViPR SRM vApp (5 VMs). As shown on the below figure, this vApp contains some properties that should be available in Recovery Site:

To protect vApp using Site Recovery Manager, please follow the below steps: