VMware Data Recovery (VDR)
You'll walk away from the course able to configure VDR with your vSphere 4 infrastructure, manage the VDR appliance, set backup jobs and retention policies, perform backups and restore deleted VMs, and you'll know best practices for implementing VDR in your virtual infrastructure.
What you'll learn
This course dives into the configuration and features of VMware Data Recovery. You'll walk away from the course able to configure VDR with your vSphere 4 infrastructure, manage the VDR appliance, set backup jobs and retention policies, perform backups and restore deleted VMs, and you'll know best practices for implementing VDR in your virtual infrastructure. This course is designed for middle to upper level enterprise network administrators, and to get the most out of this course you should have a solid understanding of working with vSphere and virtualization concepts.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Creating Backup Jobs in VDR 4m
- What We Covered 3m
- Defining a Backup Window 3m
- Setting Backup Retention Policies 4m
- Grouping VMs for Backup 6m
- Creating and Running a Demo Backup Job 3m
- Performing Restore Using VDR 8m
- Restore Rehearsals 4m
- Monitoring and Reporting on Backup Jobs 1m
- Getting Backup Data on the Tape 5m
- Introduction 1m
- VDR Maximums 1m
- How to Update VDR 12m
- Backing Up vCenter VM 2m
- Installing VMware Tools 1m
- Upgrading Virtual Hardware 2m
- Archiving Backups for Offsite Storage 2m
- Monitoring Backups Destination Growth 3m
- Extending Your Backup Destination 2m
- Improve Backup Performance 3m
- Creating a VDR Log Bundle for Support 5m
- What We Covered 1m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more