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. This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] – On Demand.

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

  • Level
  • Intermediate (L300)
  • Length
  • 4 Days

    • Audience

  • Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 8.0.
    • Products
    • VMware ESXi
    • VMware vCenter
    • VMware vSphere
    • Prerequisites
  • Formats
  • Classroom
  • Live Online
  • vFlex-ILT
  • Private Training

Outline

Course Introduction

• Introduction 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 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

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

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

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 HCI Mesh

• Understand the purpose of vSAN HCI Mesh • Detail vSAN HCI Mesh technology and architecture • Perform mount and unmount of a remote datastore

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

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

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 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

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

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