During this course, you will gain the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. You will learn about managing and operating vSAN. This course focuses on building the required skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations, troubleshooting and advanced vSAN cluster operations. You will learn these skills through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe vSAN concepts
Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
Explain the importance vSAN node hardware compatibility
Describe the different vSAN deployment options
Explain how to configure vSAN fault domains
Detail how to define and create a VM storage policy
Discuss the impact of vSAN storage policy changes
Detail vSAN resilience and data availability
Describe vSAN storage space efficiency
Explain how vSAN encryption works
Detail VMware HCI Mesh™ technology and architecture
Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
Describe how to setup a stretched and a two-node vSAN cluster
Describe vSAN maintenance mode and data evacuation options
Define the steps to shut down a vSAN cluster for maintenance
Explain how to use proactive tests to check the integrity of a vSAN cluster
Use VMware Skyline Health™ for monitoring vSAN health
Use VMware Skyline Health to investigate and help determine failure conditions
Discuss vSAN troubleshooting best practices
Describe vSAN Express Storage Architecture™ concepts

1

  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introduction 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 VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM 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

  • MANAGING 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

  • VSAN HCI MESH

  • Understand the purpose of vSAN HCI Mesh

    Detail vSAN HCI Mesh technology and architecture

    Perform mount and unmount of a remote datastore

10

  • VSAN FILE SERVICE AND ISCSI TARGET SERVICE

  • Understand the purpose of vSAN File Services

    Detail vSAN File Services architecture

    Configure vSAN File Shares

    Describe vSAN iSCSI Target Service

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 storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster

12

  • 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

13

  • 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

    Use a vSAN proactive test to detect and diagnose cluster issues

14

  • VSAN TROUBLESHOOTING

  • Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems

    Apply troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and optimize troubleshooting efficiency

    Use VMware Skyline Health to investigate and help determine failure conditions

    Explain which log files are useful for vSAN troubleshooting

15

  • VSAN EXPRESS STORAGE ARCHITECTURE

  • Understand the purpose of vSAN Express Storage Architecture

    Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture components

    Identify Storage Policy differences

    Understand compression and encryption operation differences

Audience

Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 8.0. Equivalent knowledge or completion of the following course is required: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

Language

English

Prerequisites

$3,400

Length: 4.0 days (32 hours)

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