Prerequisites
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]
This two-day, hands-on training course gives experienced VMware vSphere® administrators the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager™ 6.1. This course also shows you how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager.
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