VMware Site Recovery Manager Training Overview
This VMware Site Recovery Manager training course teaches experienced VMware vSphere® administrators how to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager™ 8.2. Attendees learn how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager. Note: This course is based on beta software.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
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 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
Prerequisites
All students should have taken the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course or have the equivalent knowledge.
Outline
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Overview and Architecture
- Discuss Site Recovery Manager architecture
- Examine disaster recovery options with Site Recovery Manager
- Describe Site Recovery Manager integration with VMware vSphere
- Discuss Site Recovery Manager features
- Analyze Site Recovery Manager storage policies and integration options
- Discuss how Site Recovery Manager supports several disaster recovery topologies
- Identify use cases for Site Recovery Manager across various scenarios
- Describe how VMware Site Recovery
Deploy and Configure Site Recovery Manager
- Identify the requirements to deploy Site Recovery Manager
- Discuss the benefits of the Site Recovery Manager appliance
- Explore vSphere deployment models
- Deploy the Site Recovery Manager appliance
- Navigate the Site Recovery Manager configuration user interface
- Describe the process to register Site Recovery Manager with VMware vCenter Server
- Configure site pairing
- Identify how to perform updates to the Site Recovery Manager appliance
Configuring Inventory Mappings
- Outline the importance of inventory mappings
- Examine configuration options for inventory mappings
- Outline the importance of placeholders
Using Array-based Replication
- Describe array-based replication
- Discuss the role of the Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
- Explore the relationship between devices, consistency groups, and datastore groups
- Configure array pairs
vSphere Replication
- Explore vSphere Replication architecture
- Examine vSphere Replication functionality
- Formulate use cases for vSphere Replication
- Deploy a vSphere Replication appliance
- Configure vSphere Replication appliance settings
- Configure a vSphere Replication appliance connection
- Deploy a vSphere Replication server
- Register a vSphere Replication server
Replicating Virtual Machines with vSphere Replication
- Configure vSphere Replication for virtual machines
- Explain the importance of datastore mappings
- Describe vSphere Replication recovery point objective scheduling
- Describe the vSphere Replication disk transfer protocol
Building Protection Groups
- Define protection group functionality
- Examine the differences between array-based protection groups, protection groups based on vSphere Replication, and storage profile protection groups
- Create a protection group
- Discuss protection group settings
- Remove protection from a virtual machine
- Create a storage profile protection group
Building Recovery Plans
- Discuss recovery plan concepts
- List recovery plan steps
- Discuss network planning
- Discuss customization options in recovery planning
- Outline how to implement a recovery plan
- Investigate recovery plan options
Testing and Running a Recovery Plan
- Discuss use cases for Site Recovery Manager
- Describe planned migration
- Identify Site Recovery Manager workflows
- Discuss the importance of VMware vSphere
- Examine Site Recovery Manager integration with various vSphere technologies
- Outline how to conduct a recovery plan test
- Perform recovery plan test execution
- Identify the effects on the storage layer during recovery steps
- Explain a recovery plan execution in planned migration or disaster recovery mode
- Understand storage layer changes for plan execution types
- Identify the recovery steps for each execution type
- Describe how to reprotect a data center
- Examine failback steps
Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Discuss Site Recovery Manager alarms
- Explore Site Recovery Manager history reports
- Configuring advanced Site Recovery Manager settings
- Describe how to modify logging levels
- Explain how to collect log bundles
- Identify key log locations
Conclusion
Training Materials
All attendees receive the official VMware courseware for this course.
Software Requirements
A modern web browser and an Internet connection free of restrictive firewalls so that the student can connect by SSH and Remote Desktop (RDP) into the virtual environment for the training.
