VM1101

VMware Site Recovery Manager

This hands-on training course is aimed at experienced VMware Infrastructure 3 administrators. The course covers installation, configuration, and operation of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and testing of disaster recovery plans with SRM.

Target Audience

System administrators and systems integrators experienced with VMware Infrastructure 3 who are responsible for their organization's deployment of SRM

Please note that In accordance with VMware recommendations all Servers used in the classroom are shared between the delegates.

Prerequisites

Recommended:

Completion of VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure or equivalent experience with VMware Infrastructure 3
Basic knowledge of disaster recovery concepts
Basic knowledge of storage array technology
Basic Skills Self-Assessment: SRM

You must already possess the following prerequisite skills to gain the greatest possible value from attending this course:

Create multiple virtual switches and configure port groups in VMware vCenter that can support the service console, VMware vMotion, iSCSI, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware High Availability, and virtual machine production networking operations.
Install vCenter and add VMware ESX server to its inventory.
Reorganize your storage, moving virtual machine files from one LUN to another, either while the virtual machine is powered on or off, to facilitate a disaster recovery failover.
A basic knowledge of SAN management activities, such as replication, replicated LUN discovery, or replicated LUN synchronization by separating synchronized LUNs or additional mirrored LUNs or snapshots during a test or an actual failover.
Configure access to iSCSI storage on your ESX server.
Create a VMFS datastore on shared storage.
Migrate a virtual machine using vMotion.
Apply migration recommendations in a DRS cluster.
Send an SNMP notification when a virtual machine-based alarm is triggered.
Configure VMware HA to successfully fail over virtual machines during a host failure

Delegates will learn how to