This two-day, hands-on training course gives experienced VMware vSphere® administrators the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager™ 8.6. This course also shows you how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Summarize the components of Site Recovery Manager architecture
Deploy and configure the Site Recovery Manager appliance
Describe the principal disaster recovery topologies that are used with Site Recovery Manager
Configure inventory and resource mappings
Describe the storage replication options that are used with Site Recovery Manager
Configure Site Recovery Manager to leverage array-based replication
Describe VMware vSphere® Replication™ functionality
Describe the vSphere Replication architecture
Deploy and configure vSphere Replication for use with Site Recovery Manager
Build Site Recovery Manager array-based protection groups, protection groups based on vSphere Replication, and Virtual Volumes protection groups.
Build, edit, execute, test, and remove a recovery plan
Perform a planned migration

1

  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introductions and course logistics

    Course objectives

2

  • SITE RECOVERY MANAGER ARCHITECTURE

  • Describe Site Recovery Manager architecture

    Identify disaster recovery options with Site Recovery Manager

    Evaluate how Site Recovery Manager integrates with VMware products

    Describe Site Recovery Manager licensing options

    List the disaster recovery topologies supported by Site Recovery Manager

    Describe how VMware Site Recovery for VMware Cloud on AWS integrates with Site Recovery Manager

3

  • DEPLOYING AND CONFIGURING SITE RECOVERY MANAGER

  • Identify the vSphere and vCenter Server requirements for deploying Site Recovery Manager

    Define Site Recovery Manager virtual appliance system requirements

    Deploy the Site Recovery Manager appliance

    Navigate the Site Recovery Manager configuration UI

    Describe the process for registering Site Recovery Manager with vCenter Server

    Describe how to start and stop services in Site Recovery Manager

    Identify ways to perform updates to the Site Recovery Manager appliance

    Describe the options for accessing the Site Recovery Manager

    Describe the process for configuring site pairing

    Describe how to import and export Site Recovery Manager configuration

    Navigate the Site Recovery Manager configuration UI

    Describe the process for registering Site Recovery Manager with vCenter Server

    Describe how to start and stop services in Site Recovery Manager

    Identify ways to perform updates to the Site Recovery Manager appliance

    Describe the options for accessing the Site Recovery Manager

    Describe the process for configuring site pairing

    Describe how to import and export Site Recovery Manager configuration

4

  • CONFIGURING INVENTORY MAPPINGS

  • Explain the importance of inventory mappings

    Identify configuration options for inventory mappings

    Describe the importance of placeholder virtual machines and datastores

    Describe the importance of the vSphere inventory changes for Site Recovery Manager operation

5

  • USING ARRAY-BASED REPLICATION

  • Describe array-based replication

    Describe Storage Replication Adapters and explain their role for the array-based replication

    Describe the concept and configuration of array pairs

    Describe datastore groups and the relationship between devices and datastore groups

    Describe the role of consistency groups

    Identify the advantages of array-based replication

6

  • VSPHERE REPLICATION

  • Describe Site Recovery Manager with vSphere Replication Architecture

    Discuss the role of vSphere Replication components

    Discuss use cases for vSphere Replication

    Discuss system requirements and operational limits of vSphere Replication

    Determine how to calculate bandwidth requirements for vSphere Replication

    Identify the advantages of vSphere Replication

    Deploy a vSphere Replication appliance

    Configure a vSphere Replication appliance and register it with vCenter Server

    Pair vSphere Replication appliances

    Deploy an additional vSphere Replication server

    Register a vSphere Replication server with a vSphere Replication management server

7

  • REPLICATING VMS USING VSPHERE REPLICATION

  • Describe the replication process used by vSphere Replication

    List vSphere Replication replica states

    Describe vSphere Replication of encrypted virtual machines

    Describe vSphere native key provider

    Describe how to configure vSphere Replication

    Discuss vSphere Replication RPO settings

    Describe MPIT instances

    Describe additional vSphere Replication settings

    Describe how to disable vSphere Replication

8

  • PROTECTION GROUPS

  • Define protection group functionality

    Examine the differences between array-based protection groups, protection groups based on vSphere Replication, and Virtual Volumes protection groups

    Create a protection group

    View a placeholder virtual machine in the inventory

    Configure protection for virtual machines and edit protection groups

9

  • RECOVERY PLANS

  • Discuss recovery plan concepts

    Discuss network planning

    Discuss the organization of storage for recovery plans

    Describe customization options in recovery planning

    Describe priority groups and VM dependencies

    Describe how to implement a recovery plan

    Configure VM recovery plan properties

    Describe the customization of recovery plans

    Configure additional steps in the recovery plan

    Delete a recovery plan

10

  • EXECUTING RECOVERY PLANS

  • Discuss use cases for Site Recovery Manager

    Describe planned migration

    Identify Site Recovery Manager workflows

    Examine Site Recovery Manager integration with various vSphere technologies

    Describe how to conduct a recovery plan test

    Perform a recovery plan test

    Identify the effect on the storage layer during the test recovery steps

    Review the recovery plan test steps

    Describe how to cancel a recovery plan test and clean up after recovery plan test cancelation

    Explain a recovery plan execution in planned migration or disaster recovery mode

    Identify the recovery steps for each execution type

    Describe a forced recovery

    Explain the importance of reprotection processes and states

    Examine failback steps

    Describe how to reprotect a data center

11

  • MONITORING AND TROUBLESHOOTING

  • Identify Site Recovery Manager alarm options

    Generate Site Recovery Manager recovery plan history reports

    Configure Site Recovery Manager advanced settings

    Identify Site Recovery Manager logs

    Describe the vRealize Operations management pack for Site Recovery Manager

Audience

vSphere administrators, architects, system engineers, and systems integrators who are responsible for the deployment or management of Site Recovery Manager

Language

English

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have completed one of the following course(s): VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage VMware vSphere: Fast Track VMware vSphere: What’s New VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server™.

$1,700

Length: 2.0 days (16 hours)

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