Class overview :

Class goals :

At the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Install SRM 5.0
• Configure placeholder datastores
• Configure inventory mappings in SRM
• Configure datastore mappings
• Replicate virtual machines using physical couriering
• Configure vSphere replication-based protection groups in SRM
• Create, edit, execute, test, and remove a recovery plan in SRM
• Reprotect virtual machines
• Configure SRM alarms
• Troubleshoot SRM problems

Content of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0: Install, Configure, Manage

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to Disaster Recovery

• Introduce disaster recovery terminology and concepts
• Describe disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Use a runbook to guide disaster recovery

Overview and Architecture

• Describe the SRM architecture and components
• Discuss the functional differences between SRM and VMware
• vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler and VMware vSphere High Availability
• List the new features of SRM 5.0

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Planning

• List the SRM prerequisites checklist
• Identify and describe SRM site preparation activities, including DNS validation, SRM database requirements, datastore groups requirements, recovery site inventory preparation, and network communication planning

VMware vSphere Replication

• Describe storage replication using the vRMS appliance
• List storage replication limitations when using the vRMS appliance

Installation

• Identify and complete SRM installation tasks
• Integration with storage arrays using storage replication adapters
• Configure storage replication
• List and describe SRM security roles

Establishing the Replication Framework

• Describe and configure SRM placeholder datastores
• Configure datastore mappings for vRMS storage replication
• Describe and configure SRM inventory, network, and datastore mappings

Protection Groups

• Describe protection groups
• Configure a protection group to protect virtual machines
• Describe placeholder virtual machines
• Create customizations to reconfigure virtual machine network connections after a failover

Recovery Plans

• Discuss SRM recovery plans
• List SRM recovery plan steps
• Create an SRM recovery plan

Alarms and Site Status

• Describe SRM alarms
• Describe the available alarm actions
• Configure an alarm

Failover Testing and Failover

• Describe failover testing, including its effect on storage and network configuration
• Test a recovery plan
• Execute a failover
• Discuss storage resignaturing

Planned Migration, Reprotect, and Failback

• Discuss planned migration and how it is different from a failover
• Execute a planned migration
• Discuss when and how to reprotect a virtual machine
• Describe SRM failback

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Logs, Simple Scripts, and Troubleshooting

• Describe SRM logs
• Resolve problems with the SRM database
• Resolve site connection problems
• Resolve LUN, datastore, and protection group problems
• Use scripts with SRM