SRMICM86 - VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage 8.6

Course Overview

This two-day, hands-on training course gives experienced VMware vSphere® administrators the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager™ 8.6. This course also shows you how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager

Course Objectives

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

Target Audience

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

Prerequisites

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™.

Product Alignment

VMware Site Recovery Manager [V8.6]

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