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EDU-VSANMO

VMware vSAN: Management and Operations [V7] Training

In this three-day course, you learn about managing and operating VMware vSAN™ 7. 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 also gain practical experience through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
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Course Details

Duration

3 days

Prerequisites

Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v7] or equivalent knowledge, andVMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [v7].

Target Audience

Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 7.

Skills Gained

  • Define the tasks involved in vSAN node management
  • Updating and upgrading vSAN using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager™
  • Explain vSAN resilience and data availability features
  • Reconfigure vSAN storage policies and observe the cluster-wide impact
  • Perform vSAN cluster scale-out and scale-up operations
  • Describe common vSAN cluster maintenance operations
  • Control vSAN resync operations
  • Manage two-node cluster and stretched cluster advance operations
  • Configure vSAN storage efficiency and reclamation features
  • Use VMware Skyline™ Health to monitor cluster health, performance, and storage capacity
  • Describe vSAN security operations
  • Configure vSAN Direct for cloud native applications
  • Configure remote vSAN datastore and vSAN native file services
Course Outline
  • vSAN Node Management
    • 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
  • vSAN Resilience and Data Availability Operations
    • Describe vSAN storage policies
    • Recognize the impact of a vSAN storage policy change
    • 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
    • Configure the vSAN fault domains
  • 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
  • HCI Mesh Using Remote vSAN
    • Discuss the use cases for Remote vSAN
    • Understand the high-level architecture
    • Describe remote datastore operations
    • Discuss the network requirement
    • Interoperability between Remote vSAN and VMware vSphere-High Availability
  • Managing Advanced vSAN Cluster Operations
    • Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
    • Understand the importance of Witness Node
    • Describe how stretched cluster storage policies affect vSAN objects
    • Create and apply a vSAN stretched cluster policy to meet specific needs
    • Discuss stretched cluster failure scenarios and responses
  • Managing vSAN Storage Space Efficiency Operations
    • 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
  • vSAN Cluster Monitoring
    • Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) enables VMware to improve products and services
    • Use vSphere Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN Cluster Health
    • Manage alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in vSphere Client
    • Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues
    • Use IO Insight metrics for monitoring vSAN performance
    • Analyse vsantop performance metrics
    • Use vSAN Proactive Test to detect and diagnose cluster issues
  • vSAN Direct
    • Discuss the use cases for vSAN Direct
    • Understand the overall architecture of vSAN Direct
    • Describe the workflow of vSAN Direct datastore creation
    • Explore how vSAN Direct works with storage policy tagging
  • Native vSAN File Service
    • Discuss the use cases for vSAN file service
    • Understand the high-level architecture of vSAN file service
    • Discuss the authentication model
    • Configure file shares
    • Monitor file share health and capacity utilization
  • Product Alignment
    • VMware ESXi™ 7.0 U1
    • VMware vCenter Server® 7.0 U1
    • VMware vSAN 7.0 U1