Course Overview
This course covers the installation, configuration, and use of PlateSpin Protect and Forge to protect workloads in
your network. It also covers basic support techniques and tools used to troubleshoot common problems encountered
with the protection process.
Key Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to perform engineer level administration
tasks with PlateSpin Protect.
Audience
This course is designed for network adminstrators who are responsible for managing server
workloads. PlateSpin Protect is aimed at larger enterprise customers who need a highlyscalable,
customizable workload management solution. PlateSpin Forge is aimed at smaller
customers with fewer workloads to manage.
Prerequisites
Before taking this course you should have the following:
• Strong background in basic IP networking concepts such as IP addressing, subnet masking,
ports, DNS, DHCP, routing, and NAT routing
• Basic familiarity with Windows server management tasks, such as adding server roles and
managing services
• Basic familiarity with virtualization concepts; experience with VMware ESX or ESXi is
helpful, but not required
Course Outline
SECTION 1: PlateSpin Protect and Forge OverviewObjective
1.1: Describe the need for disaster recovery and protection.Objective
1.2: Describe the role and function of PlateSpin Protect and Forge.Objective
1.3: Explain the general architecture of PlateSpin.Objective
1.4: Choose a PlateSpin protection strategy.
SECTION 2: Installing and Configuring the PlateSpin Protect ServerObjective
2.1: Meet system requirements.Objective
2.2: Install the PlateSpin Protect server components.Objective
2.3: Complete post-installation tasks.Objective
2.4: Add VM containers.Objective
2.5: Add image containers.Objective
2.6: Create a protection tier.
SECTION 3: Implementing the PlateSpin Forge ApplianceObjective
3.1: Set up the PlateSpin Forge appliance.Objective
3.2: Access the PlateSpin Forge Web Client.Objective
3.3: License the PlateSpin Forge appliance.Objective
3.4: Configure PlateSpin Forge networks.Objective
3.5: Configure role-based access to the PlateSpin Forge appliance.Objective
3.6: Configure email notifications.Objective
3.7: Configure PlateSpin Forge to use SAN storage.
SECTION 4: Protecting a WorkloadObjective
4.1: Discover source workloads.Objective
4.2: Configure protection for workloads.Objective
4.3: Run replication for workloads.
SECTION 5: Testing and Recovering Workloads in PlateSpin Protect and Forge Objective
5.1: Explain the different workload recovery options available in PlateSpin Protect/Forge.Objective
5.2: Perform a test failover.Objective
5.3: Perform a prepare for failover.Objective
5.4: Perform a full failover.Objective
5.5: Add a physical target container.Objective
5.6: Perform an image deployment.Objective
5.7: Perform a failback to a VM container.Objective
5.8: Perform a failback to physical container
SECTION 6: Supporting PlateSpin Protect and ForgeObjective
6.1: Explain how each key protection process works Objective
6.2: Describe the tools that can be used to troubleshoot protectionObjective
6.3: Use DiagnosticsObjective
6.4: Use Controller, Event and Service logs.Objective
6.5: Use the PlateSpin web client to remove a workload.Objective
6.6: Analyze machine and image XML files.Objective
6.7: Troubleshoot each key protection process.
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