VSANMO7 – VMware vSAN: Management and Operations (V7)
VSANMO7 - VMware vSAN: Management and Operations (V7)
Overview:
In this three-day course, you focus on deploying and managing a software-defined storage solution with VMware vSAN™ 6.7. You learn how vSAN functions as an important component in the VMware software-defined data center. You gain practical experience with vSAN concepts through the completion of hands-on lab exercises.
This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage V6.7 – On Demand.
Product Alignment
• ESXi 6.7
• vCenter Server 6.7
• vSAN 6.7
Objectives:
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
• Configure vSAN encryption
• Control vSAN resynchronization tasks
• Create and manage nested fault domains
• Use the vSAN health service 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
Intended Audience: 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
• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] 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® Client
• Create and manage VMware vCenter Server® objects, such as data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual
machines
• Create and modify a standard switch
• Create and modify a distributed 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®
If you cannot complete all of these tasks, VMware recommends that you complete the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] course before enrolling in VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage.
Outline
1. Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
2. vSAN Node Management
Recognize the importance of hardware compatibility
Ensure the compatibility of driver and firmware versioning
Use tools to automate driver validation and installation
Apply host hardware settings for optimum performance
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades
3. vSAN Resilience and Data Availability Operations
Describe vSAN storage policies
Recognize the impact of a vSAN storage policy change
Describe and configure the Object Repair Timer advanced option
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
Configure the vSAN fault domains
4. vSAN Cluster Maintenance
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
5. HCI Mesh Using Remote vSAN
Discuss the use cases for Remote vSAN
Understand the high-level architecture
Describe remote datastore operations
Discuss the network requirement
Interoperability between Remote vSAN and VMware vSphere-High Availability
6. Managing Advanced vSAN Cluster Operations
Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
Understand the importance of Witness Node
Describe how stretched cluster storage policies affect vSAN objects
Create and apply a vSAN stretched cluster policy to meet specific needs
Discuss stretched cluster failure scenarios and responses
7. Managing vSAN Storage Space Efficiency Operations
Discuss Deduplication and Compression techniques
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
8. vSAN Security Operations
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
9. vSAN Cluster Monitoring
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
Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues
Use IO Insight metrics for monitoring vSAN performance
Analyse vsantop performance metrics
Use vSAN Proactive Test to detect and diagnose cluster issues
10. vSAN Direct
Discuss the use cases for vSAN Direct
Understand the overall architecture of vSAN Direct
Describe the workflow of vSAN Direct datastore creation
Explore how vSAN Direct works with storage policy tagging
11. Native vSAN File Service
Discuss the use cases for vSAN file service
Understand the high-level architecture of vSAN file service
Discuss the authentication model
Configure file shares
Monitor file share health and capacity utilization