VMware vSAN 7: Fast Track (VSANFT7)

  • Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
  • Date: on request

VMware vSAN 7: Fast Track (VSANFT7)

This course will help:
  • Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, implement and further maintain a VMware vSAN cluster
  • Understand the troubleshooting methodology for implementing and maintaining vSAN and the tools
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Course syllabus:

  • 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
  • Discuss the vSAN integration and compatibility with other VMware technologies
  • 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
  • Use vSphere Life Cycle Manager to perform upgrades
  • Deploy and configure a vSAN Cluster using Cluster Quickstart wizard
  • Manually configure a vSAN Cluster using vSphere Client
  • Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
  • Using vSphere HA with vSAN
  • Understand vSAN Cluster maintenance capabilities
  • Describe the difference between implicit and explicit fault domains
  • Create explicit fault domains
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target
  • Detail HCI Mesh technology and architecture
  • Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
  • Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Discuss the ways to access VMware vSphere ESXi Shell
  • Use commands to view, configure, and manage your VMware vSphere environment
  • Discuss the esxcli vsan namespace commands
  • Use log files to help vSAN troubleshooting

You will learn:

• 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
• 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
• Describe vSAN storage space efficiency
• Explain how vSAN encryption works
• Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target
• Detail HCI Mesh technology and architecture
• Detail vSAN file service architecture and configuration
• Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct
• Describe how to setup stretched and two-node vSAN clusters
• Explain the importance vSAN node hardware compatibility
• Describe the use of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager to automate driver and firmware installations
• Detail vSAN resilience and data availability
• Discuss the vSAN cluster backup methodology
• Describe the 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
• Apply a structured approach to troubleshoot vSAN cluster configuration and operational problems

Pre-requisites:

Completion of the following course is required:

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