This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN cluster. In this course, you are taught the many considerations that the end vSAN configuration has on the initial planning of the vSAN datastore. You also perform a fully manual configuration of a vSAN cluster.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
Describe the different vSAN deployment options
Detail vSAN cluster requirements and considerations
Apply recommended vSAN design considerations and capacity sizing practices
Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance
Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
Explain Maintenance Mode use and its impacts on vSAN
Apply best practices for vSAN network configurations
Manually configure a vSAN cluster using VMware vSphere Client
Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
Understand and apply vSAN storage policies
Define encryption in the vSAN cluster
Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters
Describe the architecture and use cases for two-node clusters
Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target services

1

  • Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
    Course objectives
2

  • Introduction to vSAN

  • Describe vSAN architecture
    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

  • Deploy and configure a vSAN cluster using the Cluster Quickstart wizard
    Manually configure a vSAN cluster using 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

  • Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations

  • Define and configure compression and deduplication in the vSAN cluster
    Define and configure encryption in the vSAN cluster
    Understand the remote vSAN datastore topology
    Identify the operations involved in managing the remote vSAN datastore
    Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target service
7

  • vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters

  • Describe the architecture and use cases 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

Audience

Experienced VMware vSphere administrators will benefit from this course.

Language

English

Prerequisites

You should have the following understanding or knowledge: Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course Knowledge of basic storage concepts Experience using vSphere Client to perform administrative tasks on vSphere clusters

$1,700

Length: 2.0 days (16 hours)

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