Overview
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.
Pre-Requisites
- Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent experience
- Basic knowledge of disaster recovery concepts
- Basic knowledge of storage array technology
Content
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course goals and objectives
- Overview and Architecture
- Describe how SRM can be used for disaster recovery
- List SRM features
- 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
- Storage Replication
- Discuss SRM architecture when used with array-based replication
- Discuss VR technology
- Deploying vSphere Replication
- Deploy and configure a vSphere Replication Management (VRM) server
- Deploy and configure a VR server
- Describe the architecture of VR
- Describe the process for adding an array manager
- Configuring Inventory Mappings
- Configure SRM inventory and network mappings
- Configure placeholder datastores
- 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
- Building Protection Groups
- Discuss differences between array-based protection groups and VR protection groups
- Create, configure, and edit protection groups
- Building Recovery Plans
- Discuss SRM recovery plan concepts
- Create a recovery plan
- Modify recovery plan properties
- 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
Objectives
- Install SRM 5.1
- Understand the storage replication options
- Deploy and configure VMware vSphere® Replication (VR)
- Configure inventory and resource mappings
- Build protection groups based on VR
- Create, edit, execute, and test a recovery plan
- Perform a planned migration
- Perform a reprotect and failback
Target Audience
- vSphere administrators, architects, system engineers, and systems integrators who are responsible for the deployment or management of SRM