The RecoverPoint Operations and Management course is designed for anyone who is responsible for the administration and management of a RecoverPoint environment running in EMC SAN storage environments and 3rd-party heterogeneous storage environments.

This course focuses on leveraging RecoverPoint technology to achieve and maintain application Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).This course supports RecoverPoint version 3.5.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe data replication principles of the RecoverPoint solution
• Create a RecoverPoint configuration and perform data replication tasks including:
  • - Configure and manage CDP, CRR, and CLR consistency groups
  • - Perform image access in virtual and physical mode as well as direct access
  • - Manage snapshots and bookmarks
  • - Perform failover and failback operations
  • - Recover production
• Manage security and alerting using the RecoverPoint Management Application
• Perform basic troubleshooting and log collection using the RecoverPoint Management Application and Command Line Interface

This course is intended for any person who presently or plans to manage RecoverPoint environments.

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student should have knowledge and skills associated with:

• Interaction of different EMC components within a complex integrated SAN environment with support for multiple types of arrays
• FC SAN implementation and administration including: configuration and zoning of B-Series and MDS-Series SAN switches, an understanding of different modules; theory of virtualization in a SAN environment; ability to configure Virtual Fabrics and VSANs
• VMware, UNIX, and Windows system administration
• Ethernet/IP networking: subnets, routing, theory of IP assignment, floating IPs, calculating IP latency, and connectivity analysis
• Principles of data migration and replication concepts
• Knowledge of virtualization, integration, and consolidation
• A list of specific prerequisite courses can be found in EMC Education Services Learning Management System.

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.

The following focus areas are included in this course:

• Module 1: RecoverPoint Overview
• Module 2: Getting Started
• Module 3: Consistency Group Operations
• Module 4: Manage the RecoverPoint Environment
• Module 5: Troubleshooting RecoverPoint