VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage V8.6 (VSRM)

  • Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
  • Date: on request

VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage V8.6 (VSRM)

This course will help:
  • Experienced system administrators, architects, systems engineers and system integrators with experience working with VMware vSphere with the implementation of Site Recovery Manager V8.6 understand the architectural components, implement and configure the Site Recovery Manager V8.6 platform
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Course syllabus:

  • 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
  • Identify the vSphere and vCenter Server requirements for deploying Site Recovery Manager
  • Describe the options for accessing the Site Recovery Manager
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • List vSphere Replication replica states
  • Describe vSphere Replication of encrypted virtual machines
  • Describe vSphere native key provider
  • Describe how to disable vSphere Replication
  • 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
  • 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
  • Discuss use cases for Site Recovery Manager
  • Describe planned migration
  • Explain the importance of reprotection processes and states
  • Examine failback steps
  • Describe how to reprotect a data center
  • Identify Site Recovery Manager alarm options
  • Generate Site Recovery Manager recovery plan history reports
  • Configure Site Recovery Manager advanced settings

You will learn:

  • 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

Pre-requisites:

This course assumes that students have knowledge of one of the courses VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x], VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.x], VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5 to V6.x], VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.x], as well as experience in administering VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server.

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