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VMware vSphere 6.0 Part 5 - VM Backup and Replication

3.5 hours on-demand video

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Brief Introduction

Learn to backup and recover VMs using VMware Data Protection and how to replicate VMs using vSphere Replication

Description

VMware vSphere 6.0 is the platform businesses depend on to deploy, manage and run their virtualized Windows and Linux workloads.

In this course you will learn how to create and run VM Backup jobs using vSphere Data Protection, and how to hot replicate critical VMs either within your vSphere environment or to a remote (disaster recovery) vSphere Environment using vSphere Replication. vSphere Data Protection and vSphere Replication are two services available in most vSphere Licenses. With these tools, you can backup, recover and protect critical business VMs.

Learn how to Backup and Replicate Virtual Machines

This course covers two major topics that all vSphere 6 vCenter administrators must know:

First, we look at how you can use vSphere Replication to select and hot replicate critical Virtual Machines to ESXi hosts either within your existing vCenter environment or to a remote vCenter environment (your Disaster Preparedness site). Periodic hot VM replication will help you successfully cope with an IT Disaster by regularly duplicating selected VMs to your remote site. Should an IT Disaster occur, you can use vSphere Replication to selectively restore critical VMs, boot them up, put them back into service to restore critical business functions. We will look at how to install the vSphere Replication appliance, how to select VMs for replication, replication policies like Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). We will also see how to restore replicated VMs and place them back into service.
Next we look at vSphere Data Protection - VMware's hot Virtual Machine backup and recovery tool. We will see how to install and configure the vSphere Data Protection appliance, how to create backup jobs, how to set backup retention policies and how to verify that backups are running correctly. We will see how to perform Virtual Machine Recoveries - both in place (overwriting the original VM) or to a new target location. We will also see how to perform an Emergency VM Recoveries (when vCenter is not available) and how to use the self-service File Level Recovery portal to allow VM administrators to recover individual files and directories. We will also see how to perform management tasks on the VMware Data Protection appliance.

The skills you will acquire in this course will help make you a more effective vSphere 6 administrator.

Added Bonus! This course is 100% downloadable. Take it with you and learn on your schedule.

Requirements

Requirements
To use vSphere Replication and VMware Data Protection, you should have a working vSphere environment including one or more ESXi hosts managed by vCenter Server
You should have access to shared storage such as VMFS or NFS datastores that you can use as backup and replication targets
You should understand how to configure and use Ethernet and TCP/IP on your ESXi hosts
One way to acquire these skills is to take our VMware vSpher 6.0 Part 1 AND Part 2 classes on Udemy

Knowledge

Implement VM Distaster Preparedness with vSphere Replication
Download and import the vSphere Replication Appliance
Understand the trade offs between local and site to site replication
Verify that vSphere Replication is working in your environment
Understand and configure Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective policies
Perform scheduled and ad hoc VM replications
Recover replicated VMs back into service
Implement VM back up and recovery using VMware Data Protection
Download and import the VMware Data Protection virtual appliance
Register vSphere Data Protection with vCenter
Provision and connect backup storage to your VDP appliance
Create back up jobs to back up one or more Virtual Machines
Perform scheduled and ad hoc VM back ups
Perform full VM recoveries
Perform individual file level recoveries using VDP's self-service file recovery portal