VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

Course Introduction

• • Introduction and course logistics

• • Course objectives

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

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

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 VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM to perform upgrades

• • Deploy and configure a vSAN Cluster using the Cluster QuickStart wizard

• • Manually configure a vSAN Cluster using VMware vSphere® Client™ • Explain and configure vSAN fault domains

• • Using VMware vSphere® High Availability with vSAN

• • Understand vSAN Cluster maintenance capabilities

• • Describe the difference between implicit and explicit fault domains

• • Create explicit fault domains

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

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

Managing 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

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

 vSAN HCI Mesh

• • Understand the purpose of vSAN HCI Mesh

• • Detail vSAN HCI Mesh technology and architecture

• • Perform mount and unmount of a remote datastore

vSAN File Service and iSCSI Target Service

• • Understand the purpose of vSAN File Services

• • Detail vSAN File Services architecture

• • Configure vSAN File Shares

• • Describe vSAN iSCSI Target Service

 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 two-node clusters

• • Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster

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

vSAN Cluster Monitoring

• • Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) enables VMware to improve products and services

• • Use VMware Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN cluster health

• • Manage alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in VMware vSphere® Client™

• • Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues

• • Use IOInsight metrics for monitoring vSAN performance

• • Use a vSAN proactive test to detect and diagnose cluster issues

vSAN Troubleshooting

• • Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems

• • Apply troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and optimize troubleshooting efficiency

• • Use VMware Skyline Health to investigate and help determine failure conditions

• • Explain which log files are useful for vSAN troubleshooting

vSAN Express Storage Architecture

• • Understand the purpose of vSAN Express Storage Architecture

• • Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture components

• • Identify Storage Policy differences

• • Understand compression and encryption operation differences