VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

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.

Who Can Benefit

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

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 use of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ 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 Mesh™ technology and architecture
• Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
• Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct Configuration™
• 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 Health™ for monitoring vSAN health

Prerequisites

• Completion of the following course is required:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v7] or equivalent knowledge

Course Content

Course Modules

• Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

• vSAN Best Practice and Problems Prevention
• Discuss the importance of vSAN planning and
• availability best practices
• Discuss vSAN networking best practices
• Discuss the importance of vSAN data protection
• Understand the Data protection best practices
• Discuss the importance of vSAN hardware
• compatibility
• Learn how to check hardware compatibility for
• vSAN
• List the factors that impact vSAN performance
• Learn how to benchmark vSAN performance
• Discuss the importance of VMware Skyline
• Advisor™
• Learn how to use Skyline Advisor

• vSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting tools
• Explain the Skyline Health for vSAN features
• Discuss the other vSAN cluster-level monitoring in
• the VMware vSphere® Client™
• Discuss vSAN host-level monitoring in the vSphere
• client
• Discuss vSAN VM-level monitoring in the vSphere
• Client
• Understand task and event views in the vSphere
• client
• Describe vSphere Alarms
• Learn how to use the CLI to find information about
• vSAN cluster

• vSAN Troubleshooting
• Learn the recommended vSAN troubleshooting
• process
• Describe the PNOMA framework
• Learn how to troubleshoot vSAN common issues
• Discuss how to get further support from the
• community and VMware knowledge base articles
• Learn how to effectively contact VMware technical
• support

• Troubleshooting Labs
• Enhance and test vSAN troubleshooting skills
• through labs