VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager:Install,Configure,Manage 6.1

About Training

This two-day, hands-on training course gives experienced VMware vSphere® administrators the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager™ 6.1. This course also shows you how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager.

What You'll Learn

• 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
• Configure inventory and resource mappings
• 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
• 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 who are responsible for the deployment or management of Site Recovery Manager.

Outline

1.VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and Architecture

• Using SRM for disaster recovery
• SRM features

2.Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

• SRM architecture and components
• Necessary components to deploy and use SRM
• SRM prerequisites and guidelines
• Installing the SRM software and the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager plug-in
• Configuring an SRM site pair

3.Storage Replication

• SRM architecture when used with array-based replication
• VR technology

4.Deploying Replication

• Deploying and configuring a vSphere Replication appliance
• Deploying and configuring a VR server appliance
• Architecture of VR
• Process for adding an array manager

5.Configuring Inventory Mappings

• Configuring SRM inventory and network mappings
• Configuring placeholder datastores

6.Configuring vSphere Replication

• Configuring VR for a single virtual machine
• VR recovery point objective scheduling
• VR disk transfer protocol
• Configuring VR for multiple virtual machines
• Managing VR

7.Building Protection Groups

• Differences between array-based protection groups and VR protection groups
• Creating, configuring, and editing protection groups

8.Building Recovery Plans

• SRM recovery plan concepts
• Creating a recovery plan
• Modifying recovery plan properties

9.Testing and Running a Recovery Plan

• Use cases for SRM recovery
• SRM workflows
• Testing a recovery plan
• Reverting a tested recovery plan
• Recovery plan execution
• Performing a planned migration
• Performing a reprotect
• Performing a failback