VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2]

1 Course Introduction

• Outline the necessary information to effectively undertake this course

• Identify resources for additional information

2 Overview and Architecture

• Discuss Site Recovery Manager architecture

• Examine disaster recovery options with Site Recovery Manager

• Describe Site Recovery Manager integration with VMware vSphere® ClientTM

• 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™ for VMware Cloud™ on AWS integrates with Site Recovery Manager.

3 Deploy & 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

4 Configuring Inventory Mappings

• Outline the importance of inventory mappings

• Examine configuration options for inventory mappings

• Outline the importance of placeholders

5 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

6 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

7 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

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

9 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

10 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® VMFS resignaturing

• 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

11 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