1.Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course goals and objectives
2.Introduction to Disaster Recovery
Introduce disaster recovery terminology and concepts
Describe disaster recovery and business continuity planning
Use a runbook to guide disaster recovery
3.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
4.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
5.VMware vSphere Replication
Describe storage replication using the vRMS appliance
List storage replication limitations when using the vRMS appliance
6.Installation
Identify and complete SRM installation tasks
Integration with storage arrays using storage replication adapters
Configure storage replication
List and describe SRM security roles
7.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
8.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
9.Recovery Plans
Discuss SRM recovery plans
List SRM recovery plan steps
Create an SRM recovery plan
10.Alarms and Site Status
Describe SRM alarms
Describe the available alarm actions
Configure an alarm
11.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
12.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
13.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