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title: "Adding Inventory Groups"
description: "After you create a recovery plan, you must add to this plan inventory groups that contain VMs that you plan to restore: Navigate to Recovery Plans. Select the plan to which you want to add inventory groups and click Manage > Edit."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vro/userguide/adding_vm_groups.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > Working with Recovery Plans > Editing Recovery Plans > Configuring Groups > Adding Inventory Groups"
dateModified: "2026-08-31"
---

# Adding Inventory Groups

After you create a recovery plan, you must add to this plan inventory groups that contain VMs that you plan to restore:

1. Navigate to **Recovery Plans**.
2. Select the plan to which you want to add inventory groups and click **Manage** > **Edit**. 
3. On the **Edit Plan** page, click **Add**.
4. In the **Add Inventory Group** window, choose groups that you want to add to the plan and click **Next**. For an inventory group to be displayed in the **Group** list, it must be added to the list of inventory items available for the scope, as described in section [Managing Inventory Items](managing_inventory_items.md).

   Note that one restore plan can contain inventory groups of one type only (either VMware vSphere, Veeam Agent or Microsoft Hyper-V). To recover workloads added to inventory groups of different types, create separate restore plans.

5. In the **Group Options** window, configure the group settings as described in section [Configuring Group Settings](configuring_group_settings.md).
6. To save changes made to the plan settings, click **Apply**.

::: important

For Orchestrator to be able to recover a machine to a VMware vSphere environment, it is recommended that the machine has VMware Tools installed:

- For VMs recovered from Veeam agent backups, Orchestrator automatically verifies whether VMware Tools are installed on all machines included in a plan when running a readiness check or a DataLab test for the plan. However, this verification is supported for Windows-based machines only. For Linux-based machines, you must perform the verification manually.
- For VMs recovered from vSphere backups, the verification is performed automatically on the vCenter Server side — for both Windows-based and Linux-based VMs. To know how to install and upgrade VMware Tools in vSphere, see [this VMware KB article](https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004754).

:::

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