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 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.

Who Can Benefit

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

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

Prerequisites

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

Course Content

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