Course Description
In this 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 softwaredefined data center. You gain practical experience with vSAN concep
COURSE 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
Outline the tasks for upgrading to vSAN 6.7
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
Agenda
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the software-defined data center
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
vSAN Configuration
- Apply vSAN design considerations
- Detail the expansion of a vSAN cluster
- Configure vSAN disk groups manually
- Identify physical network configuration requirements
- Describe the configuration of vSAN networking
- Test and validate the vSAN configuration and functionality
- Describe the vSAN architecture and components
- Describe the differences between the vSAN hybrid and all-flash architectures
- Describe the advantages of all-flash architecture
- Describe the space-efficiency features of vSAN
- Describe the different vSAN assessment tools
- Explain vSAN License Details
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
- Change virtual machine storage policies dynamically
- Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status
Managing and Operating vSAN
- Explain how to configure encryption in the vSAN cluster
- Explain the management of hardware storage devices
- Identify alarms for vSAN events
- Describe and configure fault domains
- Describe the configuration of the vSAN iSCSI service, iSCSI targets, and LUNS
Stretched Clusters and Two-Node Clusters
- Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
- Create a stretched cluster
- Describe how stretched cluster storage policies affect vSAN objects
- Create and apply a vSAN stretched cluster policy to meet specific needs
- Discuss the behavior of a stretched cluster when various types of failures occur
Monitoring and Troubleshooting vSAN
- Discuss hardware failure scenarios
- Describe the process of resynchronization
- Explain the possible reasons for resynchronization
- Describe the use of vSphere Client to detect issues
- Explain the use of the health service to monitor vSAN health
- Explain the use of the performance service to monitor vSAN performance.
- Monitor and test the vSAN environment
- Describe vSAN architecture components and the PNOMA OSI model.
Audience
This course is intended for storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN.