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VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

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...

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$3,400 USD GSA  $2,911.84
Course Code EDU-VSANICM8
Duration 4 days
Available Formats Classroom, Virtual

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.

Skills Gained

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

Who Can Benefit

  • Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 8.

Prerequisites

Completion of the following course is required:

  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge

Course Details

Course Modules

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Introduction to vSAN

  • Describe vSAN
  • Review different types of vSAN architectures
  • Explore vSAN implementation types
  • Distinguish different vSAN disk configurations
  • Examine vSAN Storage Policies

Planning a vSAN Cluster

  • Review vSAN requirements
  • Understand factors for vSAN storage capacity
  • planning
  • Describe vSAN ReadyNode Sizer capabilities

Deploying a vSAN Cluster

  • Describe vSAN cluster configuration types
  • • Identify the steps involved in configuring a vSAN
  • cluster
  • Validate vSAN cluster configurations
  • Explore Auto-Policy Management
  • Configure vSAN Reserved Capacity

vSAN Storage Policies

  • Recognize vSAN Objects and Components
  • Explain storage policies integration with vSAN
  • Compare different vSAN storage policies
  • Explore vSAN ESA snapshots
  • Examine Custom-Sized Namespace Objects
  • Understand vSAN ESA storage policies
  • Understand how the vSAN Storage Policies can be
  • customized
  • Review Configuration Changes and Impacts

vSAN Resilience and Data Availability

  • Identify vSAN component states
  • Explore how Fault Domains can protect against
  • potential outages
  • Analyze the vSAN response to different types of
  • hardware failures
  • Explore the vSAN response to different types of
  • network partitions
  • Explain how vSAN repairs objects after a failure

Managing vSAN Space Efficiency

  • Explain the configuration steps of compression-only
  • in vSAN OSA
  • Discuss vSAN OSA’s deduplication and
  • compression
  • Review vSAN ESA’s compression capabilities
  • Describe the steps to reclaim storage space with
  • TRIM/UNMAP

vSAN Security Operations

  • Understand how vSAN protects data on disk with
  • Data-at-Rest Encryption
  • Configure vSAN Data-at-Rest Encryption
  • Describe the I/O flow from the Guest OS to
  • encrypted data on disk
  • Explore the ESXi host boot up process with
  • encrypted disks
  • Review the ESXi boot up process when encryption
  • is activated
  • Understand how new keys can be generated
  • Explore how vSAN protects data in flight with Datain-Transit Encryption

vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters

  • Identify characteristics of vSAN stretched clusters
  • Discuss the vSAN stretched cluster architecture and
  • use cases
  • Explain how read and write I/O management works
  • in vSAN stretched clusters
  • List networking requirements of vSAN stretched
  • clusters
  • Describe the purpose of the vSAN witness host
  • Explain the Two-Node vSAN cluster architecture
  • and use cases
  • Describe the purpose of the vSAN shared witness
  • appliance

vSAN Cross-Cluster Capacity Sharing

  • Understand the purpose of Cross-Cluster Capacity
  • Sharing
  • Review three Cross-Cluster Capacity Sharing
  • topologies
  • Explore remote vSAN Datastore operations

vSAN File Service and iSCSI Target Service

  • Understand the purpose of vSAN File Service
  • Explore how to turn on and configure vSAN File
  • Service
  • Create and view a share and create a snapshot for a
  • share
  • Explore monitoring and performance of vSAN File
  • Service
  • Describe the vSAN iSCSI target service
  • Discuss vSAN iSCSI target service networking
  • Detail steps to configure the vSAN iSCSI target
  • service

vSAN Cluster Maintenance

  • Describe vSAN maintenance mode and data
  • evacuation options
  • Detail how to assess the vSAN maintenance mode
  • precheck reports
  • Define the steps to shut down a vSAN cluster for
  • maintenance
  • Describe vSAN cluster scaling
  • Detail the removal and replacement of disks and
  • disk groups in a vSAN cluster
  • Detail the removal and replacement of a host in a
  • vSAN cluster
  • Describe stages in the vSAN upgrade process
  • List the best practices to prepare for a vSAN
  • upgrade

vSAN Cluster Monitoring

  • Explore the PNOMA framework
  • Understand how Skyline Health can identify issues
  • Evaluate and perform proactive tests
  • Examine the available performance charts
  • Explore capacity monitoring and forecasting tools
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