SRM Site Recovery Manager - absentee-neptune/SYS-350 GitHub Wiki

VMware Hands-on-lab for VMware Site Recovery Manager

Visit the HOL link and search for: HOL-2105-01-SDC. Once you locate the lab click the enroll button. If you do not have a VMware Account, you will need to create one during the "Enroll" Process.

Module 1 - VMware Site Recovery Manager Introduction

• Main Console

• Site Recovery Manager Summary page

• What version of vCenter is being used in Site A and Site B?
  • vCenter Version 7.0
• How many protection groups are configured in this instance of SRM?
  • Only 2 protection groups are configured

Module 2 - Failing over a Virtual Machine with Site Recovery Manager

• How many Recovery plans are there?
  • There are two recovery plans
• What is a protection group?
  • A collection of virtual machines that the Site Recovery Manager protects together.
• What is a recovery plan?
  • It controls every step of the recovery process, including the order in which the Site Recovery Manager powers on and off the virtual machines, the network addresses that the recovered virtual machines use, and so on. Recovery plans are flexible, customizable, and include one or more protection groups.
• Virtual Machines replicated from Site A.

• What is the replication status of the intro-app-01 VM?
  • The replication status is OK
• The recovery in progress

• The completed recovery

• The Intro-App-01 VM running in Region B.

• The "Recovery Steps" tab in the "Introduction to Site Recovery" Recovery Plan

• The Reprotect in progress

• The Recovery Complete status

• The Intro-App-01 VM running in Site A again

Module 3 - Executing a Disaster Recovery Plan using Site Recovery Manager

• New protection group

• New recovery plan

• Completed Recovery Test

• Completed site-wide recovery

• All of the VMs running in the Region B data center

• The Audit report