VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6]

Course Description

VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6] builds practical capability across Disaster-recovery objectives, SRM architecture, supported replication, protected and recovery sites, Installing SRM, pairing sites, configuring array-based or vSphere Replication integration. The course connects architecture and configuration choices to service behavior, operational ownership, security boundaries, and evidence that proves the platform is ready.

The learning journey extends into Recovery plans, priorities, dependencies, IP customization, Reprotect, failback, reporting. Learners create and review SRM design worksheet and readiness checklist, paired-site configuration and protection-group validation, recovery-plan test report and sequence evidence, reprotection checklist and DR operations runbook to compare intended design with actual behavior and isolate defects without losing traceability.

By completion, participants can contribute to a tested Site Recovery Manager 8.6 implementation with correctly paired sites, protected workloads, ordered recovery plans, network mappings, failover evidence, and documented reprotection. The final improvement plan records monitoring needs, unresolved risks, recovery actions, owners, and controlled next steps.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how Disaster-recovery objectives, SRM architecture, and supported replication establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure protected and recovery sites, prerequisites, compatibility, licensing, and deployment planning, then confirm readiness through SRM design worksheet and readiness checklist instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering Installing SRM, pairing sites, and configuring array-based or vSphere Replication integration, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read paired-site configuration and protection-group validation to isolate placeholder virtual machines being created on a datastore unavailable to the recovery site, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate Recovery plans, priorities, and dependencies with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge IP customization, scripts, test networks, isolated test recovery, cleanup, planned migration, and disaster recovery using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with recovery-plan test report and sequence evidence.
• Investigate failback beginning while replication direction is incomplete by reviewing Reprotect, failback, and reporting before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare reprotection checklist and DR operations runbook that demonstrates permissions, certificates, monitoring, troubleshooting, operational testing cadence, and recovery governance and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Delivery combines focused demonstrations, guided configuration, scenario comparison, evidence review, fault isolation, peer discussion, validation checklists, and a final improvement plan. Learners record assumptions, decisions, expected results, observed behavior, and ownership of unresolved actions.