This two-day, hands-on training course equips experienced VMware vSphere® administrators with the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware® vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ 5.1. This course also equips vSphere administrators with the knowledge to assist in writing and testing disaster recovery plans that use SRM.
This course is not required for any VMware® certification, but the content of the course is a subset of the knowledge tested in the VMware Certified Design Expert examination.
1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives
2 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Overview and Architecture
• Describe how SRM can be used for disaster recovery
• List SRM features
3 Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Describe the SRM architecture and components
• Identify the necessary components to deploy and use SRM
• List SRM prerequisites and guidelines
• Install the SRM software and the VMware® vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ Plug-In
• Configure an SRM site pair
4 Storage Replication
• Discuss SRM architecture when used with array-based replication
• Discuss VR technology
5 Deploying Replication
• Deploy and configure a vSphere Replication appliance
• Deploy and configure a VR server appliance
• Describe the architecture of VR
• Describe the process for adding an array manager
6 Configuring Inventory Mappings
• Configure SRM inventory and network mappings
• Configure placeholder datastores
7 Configuring vSphere Replication
• Configure VR for a single virtual machine
• Describe VR recovery point objective scheduling
• Describe the VR disk transfer protocol
• Configure VR for multiple virtual machines
• Manage VR
8 Building Protection Groups
• Discuss differences between array-based protection groups and VR protection groups
• Create, configure, and edit protection groups
9 Building Recovery Plans
• Discuss SRM recovery plan concepts
• Create a recovery plan
• Modify recovery plan properties
10 Testing and Running a Recovery Plan
• Discuss uses cases for SRM recovery
• Identify SRM workflows
• Test a recovery plan
• Revert a tested recovery plan
• Discuss recovery plan execution
• Perform a planned migration
• Perform a reprotect
• Perform a failback