VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6] Training

  • Learn via: Online Instructor-Led / Classroom Based / Onsite
  • Duration: 2 Days
  • Level: Fundamentals
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  • UK Based Global Training Provider

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.

Product Alignment

  • VMware Site Recovery Manager [V8.6]

Audience

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

What You Will Learn

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

Training Outline

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

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