VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2]

Course Description

VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2] provides a structured path through Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions. Each module links technical decisions to workload outcomes, failure scenarios, observability, recovery, and controlled change.

The course then moves into Protection groups, recovery plans, priorities, dependencies, Monitoring, alarms, history reports. Learners inspect DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review, paired-site configuration record and mapping validation, recovery-plan test evidence and timing report, SRM recovery runbook and audit-ready test report to confirm results, explain exceptions, and leave a reproducible decision trail.

The course outcome is the ability to support a tested Site Recovery Manager 8.2 solution with correctly paired sites, protected workloads, recovery plans, documented failover behavior, and repeatable recovery operations. Learners finish with a prioritized action plan covering operations, hardening, capacity, resilience, and service improvement.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, and SRM architecture establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites, then confirm readiness through DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering SRM deployment, site pairing, and permissions, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read paired-site configuration record and mapping validation to isolate a resource mapping targeting a cluster without adequate failover capacity, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate Protection groups, recovery plans, and priorities with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge dependencies, IP customization, test networks, test recovery, cleanup, planned migration, reprotect, and failback using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with recovery-plan test evidence and timing report.
• Investigate a reprotect operation beginning before reverse replication has stabilized by reviewing Monitoring, alarms, and history reports before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare SRM recovery runbook and audit-ready test report that demonstrates failure analysis, replication health, maintenance, upgrades, backup, documentation, runbooks, and operational handover and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

The learning method blends demonstrations, controlled exercises, realistic failures, access and data checks, diagnostic reasoning, acceptance review, and production-readiness planning. Outputs are documented so another practitioner can repeat the test and understand the decision trail.