Workgroup

You can create one or more workgroups within a host group and add virtual machines to the workgroup.

All operations and commands that are run for host group, can also be run for a workgroup. A default workgroup is created automatically when you create a host group. If you do not create a workgroup, and add virtual machines to your host group, all the virtual machines are added to the default workgroup.

If you run a command on a workgroup, the command operation takes effect on all the virtual machines that are added to the workgroup. If you run the discovery, verify, move, and DR-test operations at a host group level, the operations also take the same effect on the workgroups within the host group.

You can create a host group without workgroup support. Set the workgroup_support attribute to no in the command that you run to create a host group

The following figure shows the host group, workgroup, and virtual machine configuration.

Four host groups are added in this symmetric host group configuration. Host1 and Host2 belong to home site. Host3 and Host4 belong to backup site. The hosts from home site, Host1 and Host2, are paired to the hosts in the backup site, Host3 and Host4 respectively. The virtual machines of the host groups are added to the two different workgroups. If you do not create a workgroup, and add virtual machines to your host group, all the virtual machines are added to the default workgroup.