VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage V8

The training combines the content of the VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy and VMware vSAN: Management and Operations courses.

In this five-day course, you will gain the knowledge, skills and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. You will learn how to manage and operate vSAN. The focus of this course is on building the skills required for common Day 2 vSAN administrator tasks. Administrator tasks include vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations, troubleshooting, and advanced vSAN cluster operations. You will gain course skills by participating in instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.

Course Contents

Course Introduction
Introduction to vSAN
Planning a vSAN Cluster
Deploying a vSAN Cluster
vSAN Storage Policies
vSAN Resilience and Data Availability
Configuring vSAN Storage Space Efficiency
vSAN Security Operations
Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations
vSAN Cluster Maintenance
vSAN Stretched and Two Node Clusters
vSAN Cluster Monitoring

You will receive the original course documentation from VMware as an e-book.

Target Group

Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects and administrators responsible for production support and management of VMware vSAN.

Knowledge Prerequisites

Equivalent knowledge or completion of the following course is required:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 Introduction to vSAN

• Describe vSAN architecture

• Describe the vSAN software components: CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT

• Identify vSAN objects and components

• Describe the advantages of object-based storage

• Describe the difference between All-Flash and Hybrid vSAN architecture

• Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN

• Discuss the vSAN integration and compatibility with other VMware technologies

3 Planning a vSAN Cluster

• Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters

• Apply vSAN cluster planning and deployment best practices

• Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance

• Design vSAN hosts for operational needs

• Identify vSAN networking features and requirements

• Describe ways of controlling traffic in a vSAN environment

• Recognize best practices for vSAN network configurations

4 Deploying a vSAN Cluster

• Recognize the importance of hardware compatibility

• Ensure the compatibility of driver and firmware versioning

• Use tools to automate driver validation and installation

• Apply host hardware settings for optimum performance

• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades

• Deploy and configure a vSAN Cluster using the Cluster QuickStart wizard

• Manually configure a vSAN Cluster using VMware vSphere® Client™

• Explain and configure vSAN fault domains

• Using VMware vSphere® High Availability with vSAN

• Understand vSAN Cluster maintenance capabilities

• Describe the difference between implicit and explicit fault domains

• Create explicit fault domains

5 vSAN Storage Policies

• Describe a vSAN object

• Describe how objects are split into components

• Explain the purpose of witness components

• Explain how vSAN stores large objects

• View object and component placement on the vSAN datastore

• Explain how storage policies work with vSAN

• Define and create a virtual machine storage policy

• Apply and modify virtual machine storage policies

• Change virtual machine storage policies dynamically

• Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status

6 vSAN Resilience and Data Availability

• Describe and configure the Object Repair Timer advanced option

• Plan disk replacement in a vSAN cluster

• Plan maintenance tasks to avoid vSAN object failures

• Recognize the importance of managing snapshot utilization in a vSAN cluster

7 Configuring vSAN Storage Space Efficiency

• Discuss deduplication and compression techniques

• Understand deduplication and compression overhead

• Discuss compression only mode

• Configure erasure coding

• Configure swap object thin provisioning

• Discuss reclaiming storage space with SCSI UNMAP

• Configure TRIM/UNMAP

8 vSAN Security Operations

• Identify differences between VM encryption and vSAN encryption

• Perform ongoing operations to maintain data security

• Describe the workflow of data-in transit encryption

• Identify the steps involved in replacing Key Management Server

9 Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations

• Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target

• Detail VMware HCI Mesh technology and architecture

• Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration

• Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct Configuration

10 vSAN Cluster Maintenance

• Perform typical vSAN maintenance operations

• Describe vSAN maintenance modes and data evacuation options

• Assess the impact on cluster objects of entering maintenance mode

• Determine the specific data actions required after exiting maintenance mode

• Define the steps to shut down and reboot hosts and vSAN clusters

• Use best practices for boot devices

• Replace vSAN nodes

11 vSAN Stretched and Two Node Clusters

• Describe the architecture and uses case for stretched clusters

• Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN witness node

• Describe the architecture and uses case for two-node clusters

• Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and vSphere Site Recovery Manager in a vSAN stretched cluster

• Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster

12 vSAN Cluster Monitoring

• Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) enables VMware to improve products and services

• Use VMware Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN cluster health

• Manage alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in VMware vSphere® Client™

• Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues

• Use IOInsight metrics for monitoring vSAN performance

• Analyse vsantop performance metrics

• Use a vSAN proactive test to detect and diagnose cluster issues

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