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Application Groups

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Application groups are created to set a list of VMs that should be running together during the verification. It is used with VMs that are dependent on services running on other VMs, such as a domain controller or a DNS server. The VMs in the application group are started first to ensure the proper testing environment.

Keep in mind that all VMs from the application group must belong to the same platform — VMware or Hyper-V, and must have at least one valid restore point created by the time the SureBackup job starts.

The created application group can be reused by several SureBackup jobs.

You will need the following cmdlets to create and manage the application groups:

Operation	VMware	Hyper-V
Creates a new application group	Add-VSBViApplicationGroup	Add-VSBHvApplicationGroup
Looks for application groups you manage	Get-VSBApplicationGroup	Get-VSBApplicationGroup
Removes an application group	Remove-VSBApplicationGroup	Remove-VSBApplicationGroup