VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2] — Lesson 1: Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites

Learning Objectives

• Assess dependencies, controls, resilience, and the intended service outcome for Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites.
• Demonstrate the workflow and leave reproducible evidence in DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review.
• Recommend a preventive improvement after resolving a recovery objective depending on replication intervals that cannot meet the stated RPO.

Detailed Topics

• Disaster recovery requirements
• RPO and RTO
• SRM architecture
• Paired sites
• Replication options
• Protection groups
• Recovery plans
• Dependencies
• And prerequisites
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The demonstration traces Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites from requirement through execution and review. Learners see where evidence should be collected, how DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review supports validation, and which warning signs require investigation.

Hands-On Exercise

Configure and test Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites with representative infrastructure or application data. Use “a recovery objective depending on replication intervals that cannot meet the stated RPO” as the troubleshooting challenge, compare hypotheses, retest the affected path, and complete DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review for review.

1. Map the current workflow and mark where the expected result can first be observed.
2. Run the scenario while preserving timestamps, object identifiers, and relevant output.
3. Apply a reversible correction only after evidence supports the cause.
4. Retest the original case plus an unaffected case and update the handover record.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

For a failure in Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites, separate access, configuration, compute, network, storage, integration, and timing causes. Compare the observed sequence with DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review; if “a recovery objective depending on replication intervals that cannot meet the stated RPO” is confirmed, document why broader changes were rejected.

Validation Checklist

• The scope of Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites is clear, including what is deliberately excluded from the test.
• Evidence in DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review supports each material decision and outcome.
• A negative test demonstrates that controls reject or expose an invalid condition.
• Open risks, owners, due actions, and production safeguards are documented.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Disaster recovery requirements, RPO and RTO, SRM architecture, paired sites, replication options, protection groups, recovery plans, dependencies, and prerequisites, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with DR requirements matrix and SRM architecture review.