VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6]

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• 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

Before taking this course, you should have completed one of the following course(s):

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track
• VMware vSphere: What’s New
• VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting

Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server™.

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Site Recovery Manager Architecture

• 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

3 Deploying and Configuring Site Recovery Manager

• Identify the vSphere and vCenter Server requirements for deploying Site Recovery Manager
• Define Site Recovery Manager virtual appliance system requirements
• Deploy the Site Recovery Manager appliance
• 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
• 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

4 Configuring Inventory Mappings

• 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

5 Using Array-Based Replication

• 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

6 vSphere 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
• Determine how to calculate bandwidth requirements for vSphere Replication
• Identify the advantages of vSphere Replication
• Deploy a vSphere Replication appliance
• Configure a vSphere Replication appliance and register it with vCenter Server
• Pair vSphere Replication appliances
• Deploy an additional vSphere Replication server
• Register a vSphere Replication server with a vSphere Replication management server

7 Replicating VMs Using vSphere Replication

• Describe the replication process used by vSphere Replication
• List vSphere Replication replica states
• Describe vSphere Replication of encrypted virtual machines
• Describe vSphere native key provider
• Describe how to configure vSphere Replication
• Discuss vSphere Replication RPO settings
• Describe MPIT instances
• Describe additional vSphere Replication settings
• Describe how to disable vSphere Replication

8 Protection Groups

• 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
• View a placeholder virtual machine in the inventory
• Configure protection for virtual machines and edit protection groups

9 Recovery Plans

• Discuss recovery plan concepts
• 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

10 Executing Recovery Plans

• Discuss use cases for Site Recovery Manager
• Describe planned migration
• Identify Site Recovery Manager workflows
• Examine Site Recovery Manager integration with various vSphere technologies
• Describe how to conduct a recovery plan test
• Perform a recovery plan test
• Identify the effect on the storage layer during the test recovery steps
• Review the recovery plan test steps
• Describe how to cancel a recovery plan test and clean up after recovery plan test cancelation
• Explain a recovery plan execution in planned migration or disaster recovery mode
• Identify the recovery steps for each execution type
• Describe a forced recovery
• Explain the importance of reprotection processes and states
• Examine failback steps
• Describe how to reprotect a data center

11 Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• Identify Site Recovery Manager alarm options
• Generate Site Recovery Manager recovery plan history reports
• Configure Site Recovery Manager advanced settings
• Identify Site Recovery Manager logs
• Describe the vRealize Operations management pack for Site Recovery Manager