VMware ® vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage v5.8

Course details

This hands-on training course equips experienced VMware vSphere® administrators with the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ 5.8.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives
• About vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• VMware online resources
• vCenter Site Recovery Manager product documentation

2 - Overview and Architecture

• Describe how vCenter Site Recovery Manager is used for disaster recovery
• Use the VMware vSphere® Web Client as the interface for vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Discuss vCenter Site Recovery Manager features
• Compare different vCenter Site Recovery Manager architecture topologies

3 - Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

• Identify version requirements for the vSphere and vCenter elements that operate with vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Describe requirements for installing vCenter Site Recovery Manager Server software
• Discuss alternatives for the vCenter Site Recovery Manager database
• Install the vCenter Site Recovery Manager software
• Describe the site pairing process
• Define the credentials required for pairing sites

4 - Storage Replication

• Describe how array-based replication operates with vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Describe how vSphere Replication operates with vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Compare array-based replication and vSphere Replication as options to work with vCenter Site Recovery Manager

5 - Deploying Replication

• Describe storage replication adapters
• Describe the process for adding an array manager to vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Describe vSphere Replication architecture with vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Describe the components of vSphere Replication
• Define use cases for vCenter Site Recovery Manager using 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

6 - Configuring Inventory Mappings

• Describe inventory mappings
• Describe network mappings
• Discuss placeholder datastores
• Refresh inventory mappings when recovery site changes are made

7 - Configuring vSphere Replication

• Describe vSphere Replication recovery point objective (RPO) scheduling
• Describe retaining multiple points in time (MPIT) instances
• Configure vSphere Replication for virtual machines
• Explain how vSphere Replication stores replicated data
• Discuss configuring vSphere Replication target servers

8 - Building Protection Groups

• Define the function of vCenter Site Recovery Manager protection groups
• Describe array-based protection groups
• Describe vSphere Replication protection groups
• Create a protection group
• Configure protection group settings
• Remove protection from a virtual machine

9 - Building Recovery Plans

• Discuss how recovery plans protect virtual machines
• Discuss network planning for recovery plans
• Describe how recovery plans can be customized
• Discuss monitoring recovery plan activity using VMware vCenter™ alarms
• Create a recovery plan
• Configure virtual machine properties in a recovery plan
• Remove a recovery plan

10 - Testing and Running a Recovery Plan

• Compare planned migration and disaster recovery using recovery plans
• Describe the differences between testing and running a recovery plan
• Describe how vCenter Site Recovery Manager works with various vSphere technologies and components
• Describe how to run a recovery plan
• Identify the recovery steps for planned migration and disaster recovery
• Discuss using the Force Recovery option for recovery plans
• Describe reprotect and failback operations and why they are necessary
• Perform a reprotect operation
• Perform a failback operation

Target Audience: vSphere administrators, architects, system engineers, and systems integrators who are responsible for the deployment or management of vCenter Site Recovery Manager.