1. Course Introduction

• Necessary information to effectively undertake this course
• Resources for additional information
• Overview of Site Recovery Manager

2. Overview and Architecture

• Disaster recovery options with Site Recovery Manager
• Site Recovery Manager integration with VMware vSphere Web Client 
• Site Recovery Manager features
• Site Recovery Manager storage policies and integration options
• How Site Recovery Manager supports several disaster recovery topologies
• Use cases for Site Recovery Manager across various scenarios
• Compare disaster recovery with VMware vCloud Air and Site Recovery Manager

3. Installing Site Recovery Manager

• Necessary components to deploy and use Site Recovery Manager
• Prerequisites for installing a Site Recovery Manager server and the associated database
• Prerequisites for the Site Recovery Manager database
• Requirements for VMware ESXi hosts and virtual machines with which Site Recovery Manager operates
• Install the Site Recovery Manager software
• Site Recovery Manager site-pairing process
• Credentials required for Site Recovery Manager site pairing

4. Configuring Inventory Mappings

• Outline the importance of inventory mappings
• Configuration options for inventory mappings
• Outline the importance of placeholders

5. Storage Replication

• Array-based replication
• vSphere Replication
• Compare Site Recovery Manager storage replication options

6. Deploying Replication

• Storage replication adapters
• Process for adding an array manager in Site Recovery Manager
• vSphere Replication architecture
• vSphere Replication functionality
• Formulate use cases for vSphere Replication
• Deploy a vSphere Replication appliance
• Configure vSphere Replication appliance settings
• Configure a vSphere Replication appliance connection
• Deploy a vSphere Replication server
• Register a vSphere Replication server

7. Configuring vSphere Replication

• Configure vSphere Replication for virtual machines
• Importance of datastore mappings
• vSphere Replication recovery point objective scheduling
• vSphere Replication disk transfer protocol

8. Building Protection Groups

• Protection group functionality
• Differences between array-based protection group, protection groups based on vSphere Replication, and storage profile protection groups
• Create a protection group
• Protection group settings
• Remove protection from a virtual machine
• Create a storage profile protection group

9. Building Recovery Plans

• Recovery plan concepts
• Recovery plan steps
• Network planning
• Customization options in recovery planning 
• Site Recovery Manager alarm options
• How to implement a recovery plan
• Recovery plan options
• Customization of recovery plans

10. Testing and Running a Recovery Plan

• Use cases for Site Recovery Manager
• Planned migration
• Site Recovery Manager workflows
• Importance of VMware vSphere VMFS re-signaturing
• Site Recovery Manager integration with various vSphere technologies
• How to conduct a recovery plan test
• Perform recovery plan test execution
• Effects on the storage layer during recovery steps
• Recovery plan reports
• Recovery plan execution in planned migration or disaster recovery mode
• Storage layer changes for plan execution types
• Recovery steps for each execution type
• How to reprotect a data center 
• Failback steps