VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

Name: VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
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4 Days

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Course Overview

During this four-day 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.

Course 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 ArchitectureTM concepts

Who Should Attend?

Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 8.0.

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Course Prerequisites

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

Agenda

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