Peer-to-peer workload protection is a function of workload portability to a virtual machine infrastructure. You use a Live Transfer method to convert a workload to a virtual machine and simultaneously establish an optional protection contract in your conversion job to incrementally update the target virtual machine on a recurring schedule. See Scheduling and Synchronization.
In terms of scope of data transferred from your source workload to the target, you can protect a workload by using one of the following two methods:
Straight P2V or V2V Conversion: To protect a workload with this method, you convert your workload to a virtual machine and enable incremental synchronizations as a parameter of the conversion job. During the conversion process, Portability Suite creates an initial virtual replica of the source machine, transfers the workload to the VM, and regularly updates it according to the specified synchronization schedule. See Converting a Workload to a Virtual Machine (P2V, V2V).
Server Sync virtualization with incremental synchronization: To protect a workload with this method, you enable incremental synchronizations as a parameter of the Server Sync job, which creates the initial virtual replica of the source machine without transferring the entire volume data; it transfers only the differences between your source and an existing base VM with a matching OS profile. Subsequent changes are regularly synchronized according to the specified synchronization schedule. See Synchronizing Workloads with Server Sync.
In either case, the virtual machine is left offline as a warm back-up. To support disaster recovery plans and disaster recover-readiness exercises, Portability Suite provides mechanisms for testing and implementing workload failover to the virtual machine. See Managing Workload Protection Contracts.