Course structure
Course Introduction
- Outline the necessary information to effectively undertake this course
- Identify resources for additional information
- Outline an overview of Site Recovery Manager
Overview and 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&trade and Site Recovery Manager
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 VMware ESXi&trade 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
Configuring Inventory Mappings
- Outline the importance of inventory mappings
- Examine configuration options for inventory mappings
- Outline the importance of placeholders
Storage Replication
- Describe array-based replication
- Describe vSphere Replication
- Compare Site Recovery Manager storage replication options
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
Configuring 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 group, 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
- Recognize Site Recovery Manager alarm options
- Outline how to implement a recovery plan
- Investigate recovery plan options
- Describe the customization of recovery plans
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
- Review recovery plan reports
- 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
