VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage (VMSRM)

1 Course Introduction

1. • Introductions and course logistics
2. • 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