VMware vSphere 6.0 Part 5 – VM Backup and Replication

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

Created by: Larry Karnis (Teaching VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter for 21+ years)
VMware vSphere Consultant / Trainer, VCP vSphere 2, 3, 4, 5

What Will I Learn?

• 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

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

Target audience

• This course is intended for vSphere administrators who want to take advantage of the Virtual Machine Replication and Backup capabilities included in most vSphere license tiers
• This course will also benefit those who wish to learn about the capabilities of VMware Data Protetion and vSphere Replication so they can properly assess their need for 3rd party VM backup and replication tools.