When logged into the Site Recovery UI, you notice that the Protection Groups and Recovery Plans tabs are missing:
Site Recovery Manager 8.x +
Live Site Recovery 9.x +
Either option below:
If you have not deployed an SRM appliance per vCenter, go ahead and follow the documentation on deploying and configuring SRM:
If you have deployed and configured an SRM appliance on per vCenter, then follow the steps below to create the SRM Site Pairs:
Once you have deployed, configured and created the SRM site pairings, then you will see the Protection Groups and Recovery Groups tabs that SRM offers.