Course Details
The VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [v6.7] course is a 3-day course that is designed to help students focus on deploying and managing a software-defined storage solution with VMware vSAN 6.7. Students will learn how vSAN functions as an important component in the VMware software defined data center. Students will gain practical experience with vSAN concepts through the completion of handson lab exercises.
Topics covered in the course include:
- Describing the vSAN architecture
- Identifying vSAN features and use cases
- Configuring vSAN networking components
- Configuring a vSAN cluster
- Deploying virtual machines on a vSAN datastore
- Configuring virtual machine storage policies
- Performing ongoing vSAN management tasks
- Outlining the tasks for upgrading to vSAN 6.7
- Configuring vSAN encryption
- Controlling vSAN resynchronization tasks
- Creating and managing nested fault domains
- Using the vSAN health service to monitor health and performance
- Configuring a stretched cluster and observe failover scenarios
- Describing vSAN interoperability with VMware vSphere features and other products
- Planning and designing a vSAN cluster
Target Student:
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN.
Prerequisites:
This course requires meeting one of the following prerequisites:
- Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices
- Experience working at the command line is helpful.
Course Outline
1. Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the software-defined data center
2. Introduction to vSAN
- Describe the vSAN architecture and components
- Describe the differences between the vSAN hybrid and all-flash architectures
- Describe the space-efficiency features of vSAN
3. vSAN Configuration
- Identify physical network configuration requirements
- Configure vSAN networking
- Configure a vSAN cluster
- Test and validate the vSAN configuration and functionality
4. vSAN Policies and Virtual Machines
- Explain how storage policies work with vSAN
- Define and create a virtual machine storage policy
- Apply and modify virtual machine storage policies
- Discuss the vsanSparse snapshot format
- Explain the considerations for vsanSparse snapshots
5. Managing and Operating vSAN
- Manage hardware storage devices
- Manage hardware device failures
- Identify vCenter Server alarms for vSAN events
- Configure fault domains
- Upgrade to vSAN 6.7
6. Stretched Clusters and Two-Node Clusters
- Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
- Create a stretched cluster using a two-node configuration
- Configure VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ for a stretched cluster
- Demonstrate stretched cluster failover scenarios
7. Monitoring and Troubleshooting vSAN
- Use vSphere Web Client to detect issues
- Use the vSAN health service to monitor health and performance
- Monitor vSAN with VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
- Use ESXi commands to monitor the vSAN environment
- Monitor vSAN with Ruby vSphere Console
Please check the course description to find prerequisite information.
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