Azure VMware Solution: Deploy Disaster Recovery with VMware SRM — Lesson 1: Recovery Requirements, AVS Topology, SRM, and Replication Design

Learning Objectives

• Secure the roles, prerequisites, dependencies, and decision points that shape recovery requirements, avs topology, srm, and replication design.
• Configure the workflow and produce DR requirements matrix and AVS recovery architecture review that another practitioner can review and repeat.
• Correlate “a requested RPO being shorter than the selected replication interval can sustain” without introducing an unverified production change.

Detailed Topics

• business impact and service tiers
• RPO and RTO translation
• on-premises and AVS topology
• SRM architecture
• vSphere Replication architecture
• connectivity prerequisites
• identity and permissions
• storage considerations
• capacity and recovery sizing
• recovery-design assumptions
• Decision ownership and acceptance evidence for recovery requirements, avs topology, srm, and replication design
• Relevant security, performance, resilience, rollback, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor demonstrates business impact and service tiers, RPO and RTO translation, on-premises and AVS topology, SRM architecture, vSphere Replication architecture, connectivity prerequisites, identity and permissions, storage considerations, capacity and recovery sizing, recovery-design assumptions in a representative environment. Each material checkpoint is captured in DR requirements matrix and AVS recovery architecture review, and the walkthrough contrasts the intended state with a condition where a requested RPO being shorter than the selected replication interval can sustain.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled implementation or analysis for Recovery Requirements, AVS Topology, SRM, and Replication Design. Establish a known baseline, introduce or reproduce “a requested RPO being shorter than the selected replication interval can sustain,” isolate the proven cause, apply a reversible correction, and record the accepted result in DR requirements matrix and AVS recovery architecture review.

1. Confirm scope, identities, infrastructure, dependencies, and expected result.
2. Execute the planned configuration or operational sequence while preserving checkpoints.
3. Test one expected path, one boundary condition, and the identified failure path.
4. Retest after correction and document rollback, ownership, and preventive action.

Scenario Analysis

• Decide which requirement or dependency has the greatest influence on recovery requirements, avs topology, srm, and replication design.
• Compare two valid implementation or recovery choices and identify the evidence that would distinguish them.
• Explain how DR requirements matrix and AVS recovery architecture review should be reviewed, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Begin with effective configuration, recent changes, connectivity, health, logs, and timing. Use DR requirements matrix and AVS recovery architecture review to find the earliest divergence between expected and observed behavior. Treat “a requested RPO being shorter than the selected replication interval can sustain” as a hypothesis until the corrected path passes both the original test and a boundary condition.

Validation Checklist

• The implemented state for recovery requirements, avs topology, srm, and replication design is traceable to approved inputs.
• DR requirements matrix and AVS recovery architecture review contains baseline, test, correction, and accepted-result evidence.
• Security, capacity, performance, resilience, downstream impact, and rollback were considered where relevant.
• Monitoring, escalation, recovery, and support ownership are clear enough for operational use.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Recovery Requirements, AVS Topology, SRM, and Replication Design, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with DR requirements matrix and AVS recovery architecture review.