Description

Introduction:

In today’s enterprise IT environment, ensuring business continuity is critical. Disasters—whether natural, technical, or human-induced—can severely impact operations if there isn’t a solid recovery plan in place. Rubrik’s data management platform provides a comprehensive solution for disaster recovery (DR), combining backup, replication, and orchestration to minimize downtime and data loss.

This training is designed to equip IT professionals with the knowledge and practical skills required to design, implement, and manage effective disaster recovery strategies using Rubrik. By the end of this course, participants will understand how to leverage Rubrik to protect critical applications, automate recovery workflows, and ensure organizational resilience.

Prerequisites:

1. Basic understanding of IT infrastructure, networking, and storage concepts.
2. Familiarity with virtualization technologies, particularly VMware or Hyper-V.
3. Basic knowledge of backup and recovery concepts.
4. Prior exposure to Rubrik fundamentals (backup, snapshots, SLA policies) is recommended but not mandatory.
5. Access to a lab environment for hands-on exercises is beneficial.

Table of Contents:

Module 1: Introduction to Disaster Recovery (DR)

1. Importance of disaster recovery in modern IT environments
2. Key DR concepts: RTO, RPO, and business impact analysis
3. Overview of DR strategies: backup-based, replication-based, and hybrid

Module 2: Rubrik Overview for DR

1. Core Rubrik components relevant to DR
2. SLA domains and policies for DR
3. Rubrik replication architecture and considerations

Module 3: Designing a DR Plan with Rubrik

1. Assessing critical applications and workloads
2. Defining RTO and RPO targets
3. Mapping backup and replication requirements to SLA domains
4. Creating a DR runbook

Module 4: Implementing DR Workflows in Rubrik

1. Configuring replication between sites
2. Orchestrating failover and failback
3. Testing DR plans with Rubrik
4. Automating recovery tasks

Module 5: Monitoring and Reporting for DR

1. Tracking replication status and health
2. Using Rubrik dashboards for DR insights
3. Generating reports for compliance and audits

Module 6: Advanced DR Scenarios

1. Multi-site and cloud DR strategies
2. DR for virtualized applications (VMware, Hyper-V)
3. DR for databases (SQL, Exchange, etc.)
4. Integration with third-party orchestration tools

Module 7: Hands-On Lab Exercises

1. Configuring replication between primary and secondary sites
2. Performing a simulated failover and failback
3. Validating recovery objectives

Module 8: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

1. Common DR pitfalls and how to avoid them
2. Optimizing Rubrik DR performance
3. Troubleshooting replication and recovery issues

Module 9: Summary and Next Steps

1. Key takeaways
2. Certification and further learning resources.