VMware vSAN: Fast Track [V7]
Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)
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Prerequisites
VMware vSAN: Fast Track [V7] Course Overview:
Enroll in the 5-day VMware vSAN: Fast Track [V7] certification training course provided by TrainCrest. This comprehensive course is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and tools required to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster.
Through a combination of hands-on labs and interactive lectures, you will develop the necessary skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks, including vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations, and advanced vSAN cluster operations. Additionally, you will learn the tools and techniques essential for troubleshooting vSAN 7 implementations, gaining practical experience with vSAN troubleshooting concepts.
The course is a consolidated version of the following courses: VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy, VMware vSAN: Management and Operations, and VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting. By completing this training, you will have a comprehensive understanding of vSAN implementation, management, and troubleshooting, enabling you to excel in your vSAN administration responsibilities.
Target Audience:
- Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN [v7]
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- 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
- 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
- Describe vSAN storage space efficiency
- Explain how vSAN encryption works
- Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target
- Detail HCI Mesh technology and architecture
- Detail vSAN file service architecture and configuration
- Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct
- Describe how to setup stretched and two-node vSAN clusters
- Explain the importance vSAN node hardware compatibility
- Describe the use of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to automate driver and firmware installations
- Detail vSAN resilience and data availability
- Discuss the vSAN cluster backup methodology
- Describe the 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
- Apply a structured approach to troubleshoot vSAN cluster configuration and operational problems
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 2: Introduction to Vsan
- Describe vSAN architecture
- Describe the vSAN software components: CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT
- Identify vSAN objects and components
- Describe the advantages of object-based storage
- Describe the difference between All-Flash and Hybrid vSAN architecture
- Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
- Discuss the vSAN integration and compatibility with other VMware technologies
Module 3: Planning a vSAN Cluster
- Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
- Apply vSAN cluster planning and deployment best practices
- Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance
- Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
- Identify vSAN networking features and requirements
- Describe ways of controlling traffic in a vSAN environment
- Recognize best practices for vSAN network configurations
Module 4: Deploying a vSAN Cluster
- 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 Life Cycle Manager to perform upgrades
- Deploy and configure a vSAN Cluster using Cluster Quickstart wizard
- Manually configure a vSAN Cluster using vSphere Client
- Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
- Using vSphere HA with vSAN
- Understand vSAN Cluster maintenance capabilities
- Describe the difference between implicit and explicit fault domains
- Create explicit fault domains
Module 5: vSAN Storage Policies
- Describe a vSAN Object
- Describe how objects are split into components
- Explain the purpose of witness components
- Explain how vSAN stores large objects
- View object and component placement on the vSAN Datastore
- 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
Module 6: vSAN Resilience and Data Availability
- 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
Module 7: Configuring vSAN Storage Space Efficiency
- 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
Module 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
Module 9: Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations
- Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target
- Detail HCI Mesh technology and architecture
- Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
- Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct
Module 10: 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
Module 11: vSAN Stretched and Two Node Clusters
- Describe the architecture and uses case for stretched clusters
- Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN Witness node
- Describe the architecture and uses case for twonode clusters
- Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and vSphere Site Recovery Manager in a vSAN stretched cluster Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster
Module 12: 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
Module 13: vSAN Troubleshooting Methodology
- Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
- Apply troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and optimize troubleshooting efficiency
Module 14: vSAN Troubleshooting Tools
- Use Skyline Health for vSAN to identify and correct issues in VMware vSAN
- Discuss the ways to run various command-line tools
- Discuss the ways to access VMware vSphere ESXi Shell
- Use commands to view, configure, and manage your VMware vSphere environment
- Discuss the esxcli vsan namespace commands
- Use log files to help vSAN troubleshooting
Completion of the following course is required:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge
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