VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager:Install,Configure,Manage 6.1 Training

This class requires completion of one of the following courses:

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6]
VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6]
VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5 to V6]
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V5.5]

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

• Summarize the components of Site Recovery Manager architecture
• Install Site Recovery Manager software
• 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
• 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 protection groups based on vSphere Replication
• Build, edit, execute, test, and remove a recovery plan
• Perform a planned migration
• Perform reprotect and failback using Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication

1.VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and Architecture

• Using SRM for disaster recovery
• SRM features

2.Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

• SRM architecture and components
• Necessary components to deploy and use SRM
• SRM prerequisites and guidelines
• Installing the SRM software and the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager plug-in
• Configuring an SRM site pair

3.Storage Replication

• SRM architecture when used with array-based replication
• VR technology

4.Deploying Replication

• Deploying and configuring a vSphere Replication appliance
• Deploying and configuring a VR server appliance
• Architecture of VR
• Process for adding an array manager

5.Configuring Inventory Mappings

• Configuring SRM inventory and network mappings
• Configuring placeholder datastores

6.Configuring vSphere Replication

• Configuring VR for a single virtual machine
• VR recovery point objective scheduling
• VR disk transfer protocol
• Configuring VR for multiple virtual machines
• Managing VR

7.Building Protection Groups

• Differences between array-based protection groups and VR protection groups
• Creating, configuring, and editing protection groups

8.Building Recovery Plans

• SRM recovery plan concepts
• Creating a recovery plan
• Modifying recovery plan properties

9.Testing and Running a Recovery Plan

• Use cases for SRM recovery
• SRM workflows
• Testing a recovery plan
• Reverting a tested recovery plan
• Recovery plan execution
• Performing a planned migration
• Performing a reprotect
• Performing a failback