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Duration

5 Days

30 CPD hours

This course is intended for

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

Overview

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 use of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Managerâ¢ 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 Meshâ¢ technology and architecture
Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct Configurationâ¢
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 Healthâ¢ for monitoring vSAN health

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.

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

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 vSphereÂ© Client?

Explain and configure vSAN fault domains

Using VMware vSphereÂ© 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

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

Additional course details:Notes

Delivery by TDSynex, Exit Certified and New Horizons an VMware Authorised Training Centre (VATC)

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