Methods and apparatus to perform site recovery of a virtual data center

A site recovery tool comprising:

• a recovery engine to issue a discover command to discover a first work item to be included in a protection group associated with a recovery plan, the first work item not being identified in the recovery plan prior to execution of the site recovery workflow, the discover command being issued during execution of the site recovery workflow;
• a persistable data container to store a first work item identifier identifying the first work item and a result indicating an outcome of an operation performed on the first work item;
• a status output device to:
• generate an initial display structure that includes a second work item identifier identifying a second work item,
• detect when the first work item identifier is placed in the persistable data container, and
• modify the initial display structure to create a modified display structure incorporating the first work item.

A tangible machine readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least:

• during execution of a site recovery workflow on a recovery plan, issue a discover command to discover a work item to be included in a protection group associated with the recovery plan, the work item not being identified in the recovery plan prior to execution of the site recovery workflow;
• cause an operation of the site recovery workflow to be performed on the work item;
• and
• store, in a persistable data container, a work item identifier identifying the work item and a result indicating the outcome of the operation performed on the work item, the persistable data container being accessible to a status output device.