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EDU-VSANICM7

VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] Training

During this five-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, 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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Course Details

Duration

5 days

Prerequisites

Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge.

Target Audience

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

Skills Gained

  • 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 use of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to automate driver and firmware installations
  • 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
  • Identify requirements to configure the 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™
  • Describe how to setup a stretched and a two-node vSAN cluster
  • Discuss vSAN cluster backup methodology
  • 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
Course Outline
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Product Alignment
    • VMware ESXi™ 7.0 U1
    • VMware vCenter Server® 7.0 U1
    • VMware vSAN 7.0 U1