Course Overview
This two-day, hands-on training course gives experienced VMware vSphere® administrators the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager™ 8.2
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: 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 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 Configure inventory and resource mappings 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
Who Should Attend?
vSphere administrators, architects, system engineers, and systems integrators
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Course Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Agenda
1 - Course Introduction
- Outline the necessary information to effectively undertake this course
- Identify resources for additional information
- Outline an overview of Site Recovery Manager
2 - Overview & Architecture
- Examine disaster recovery options with Site Recovery Manager
- Describe Site Recovery Manager integration with VMware vSphere® Web Client
- 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
- Compare disaster recovery with VMware vCloud® Air™ and Site Recovery Manager
3 - Installing Site Recovery Manager
- Identify the necessary components to deploy and use Site Recovery Manager
- Describe prerequisites for installing a Site Recovery Manager server and the associated database
- Describe prerequisites for the Site Recovery Manager database
- Discuss requirements for ESXi hosts and virtual machines with which Site Recovery Manager operates
- Install the Site Recovery Manager software
- Describe the Site Recovery Manager site-pairing process
- Define the credentials required for Site Recovery Manager site pairing
4 - Storage Replication
- Describe array-based replication
- Describe vSphere Replication
- Compare Site Recovery Manager storage replication options
5 - Deploying Replication
- Describe storage replication adapters
- Describe the process for adding an array manager in Site Recovery Manager
- 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
6 - Configuring Inventory Mappings
- Outline the importance of inventory mappings
- Examine configuration options for inventory mappings
- Outline the importance of placeholders
7 - Configuring vSphere Replication
- Configure vSphere Replication for virtual machines
- Explain the importance of datastore mappings
- Describe vSphere Replication recovery point objective scheduling
- Describe vSphere Replication disk transfer protocol
8 - 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