In this five-day course, you will focus on deploying and managing a software-defined storage solution with VMware vSAN™ 6.6. You will learn how vSAN functions as an important component in the VMware software-defined data center. You will gain practical experience with vSAN concepts and troubleshooting methodology and diagnostic tools through the completion of hands-on lab exercises.
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Define common storage technologies
- Identify characteristics of storage devices: magnetic and flash-based devices
- Identify and explain various types of storage architectures
- Identify SAN performance factors
- Describe the vSAn architecture and components
- Describe the differences between the vSAn hybrid and all-flash architectures
- Describe the space-efficiency features of vSAN
- Identify physical network configuration requirements
- Configure vSAN networking
- Configure a vSAN cluster
- Test and validate the vSAN configuration and functionality
- 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
- Manage hardware storage devices
- Manage hardware device failures
- Identify vCenter Server alarms for vSAN events
- Configure fault domains
- Upgrade to vSAN 6.6
- 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
- Use vSphere Web Client to detect problems
- 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
- Identify vSphere features and VMware products that interoperate with vSAN
- Describe how vSAN interoperates with third-party products and solutions
- Understand vSAN design considerations
- Plan and design vSAN clusters
- Identify the design and sizing tools for vSAN
- Describe vSAN use cases
- Describe the software components
- Understand how the components relate to each other
- Understand vSAN object placement
- Understand the differences between object states
- Explain how storage policies affect object placement and states
- Predict how specific failure affect object states
- Characterize problems
- Determine the cause of problems
- Solve problems
- Understand the use of various troubleshooting tools
- Use the tools provided to resolve problems with the lab environment
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN
This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:
- Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course
- Experience working at the command line is helpful
The course material presumes that a student can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
- Use VMware vSphere Web Client
- Create and manage VMware vCenter Server objects, such as data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines
- Create and modify a standard switch
- Connect a VMware ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
- Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
- Use a wizard or a template to create a virtual machine
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere vMotion
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the vSAN architecture
- Identify vSAN features and use cases
- Configure vSAN networking components
- Configure a vSAN cluster
- Deploy virtual machines on a vSAN datastore
- Configure virtual machine storage policies
- Perform ongoing vSAN management tasks
- Outline the tasks for upgrading to vSAN 6.6
- Configure vSAN encryption
- Control vSAN resynchronisation tasks
- Create and manage nested fault domains
- Use the vSAN health services to monitor health and performance
- Configure a stretched cluster and observe failover scenarios
- Describe vSAN interoperability with VMware vSphere features and other products
- Plan and design a vSAN cluster
- Use diagnostic and troubleshooting tools to resolve vSAN deployment and architectural issues
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