VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2] — Lesson 2: SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores

Learning Objectives

• Break down the prerequisites, components, roles, and decision points involved in SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores.
• Complete a controlled activity for SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores and capture paired-site configuration record and mapping validation.
• Challenge the result with a resource mapping targeting a cluster without adequate failover capacity, then justify the corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• SRM deployment
• Site pairing
• Permissions
• Certificates
• Array managers
• VSphere Replication
• Network mappings
• Folder mappings
• Resource mappings
• And placeholder datastores
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor configures and tests SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores within a scenario aimed at a tested Site Recovery Manager 8.2 solution with correctly paired sites, protected workloads, recovery plans, documented failover behavior, and repeatable recovery operations. The walkthrough contrasts a valid setup with a flawed one and uses paired-site configuration record and mapping validation to make the difference explicit.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a guided task covering SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores. Establish a working baseline, reproduce “a resource mapping targeting a cluster without adequate failover capacity,” isolate the responsible configuration or dependency, apply a reversible fix, and update paired-site configuration record and mapping validation with before-and-after proof.

1. Record the starting state, assumptions, identities, topology, and expected outcome.
2. Execute the planned workflow and collect evidence at each material checkpoint.
3. Test one valid path, one boundary condition, and the stated failure scenario.
4. Document the correction, retest result, rollback option, and follow-up owner.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how paired-site configuration record and mapping validation should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores by checking effective state, ownership, dependencies, health, logs, and recent changes. Use paired-site configuration record and mapping validation to locate the earliest divergence. Treat “a resource mapping targeting a cluster without adequate failover capacity” as a hypothesis until the same test passes after correction and under a boundary condition.

Validation Checklist

• Prerequisites and role permissions for SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores are confirmed before execution.
• The observed result agrees with expected values documented in paired-site configuration record and mapping validation.
• Exceptions are explained with evidence instead of being hidden by manual correction.
• The final record names the approver, monitoring point, and next improvement action.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply SRM deployment, site pairing, permissions, certificates, array managers, vSphere Replication, network mappings, folder mappings, resource mappings, and placeholder datastores, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with paired-site configuration record and mapping validation.