VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage Training [V6.7]

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VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage Training [V6.7] Course with Hands-On Exercises (Online, Onsite and Classroom Live)

In this three-day VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage Training [V6.7] 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.

Note: This course is based on beta software.

Product Alignment

  • ESXi 6.7
  • vCenter Server 6.7
  • vSAN 6.7

VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage Training [V6.7]Duration: 2 days

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  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [V6.7] Course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage  [V6.7] course in manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [V6.7] course:

  • Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [V6.7] course are:

  • Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices
  • Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] 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.

VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage Training [V6.7] - OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [V6.7] course, learners will be able to meet these 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
VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage Training [V6.7] - COURSE SYLLABUS

1. Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Describe the software-defined data center

2. 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

3. vSAN Configuration

  • Identify physical network configuration requirements
  • Configure vSAN networking
  • Configure a vSAN cluster
  • Test and validate the vSAN configuration and functionality

4. 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
  • Discuss the vsanSparse snapshot format
  • Explain the considerations for vsanSparse snapshots

5. Managing and Operating vSAN

  • Manage hardware storage devices
  • Manage hardware device failures
  • Identify vCenter Server alarms for vSAN events
  • Configure fault domains
  • Upgrade to vSAN 6.7

6. Stretched Clusters and Two-Node Clusters

  • 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

7. Monitoring and Troubleshooting vSAN

  • Use vSphere Web Client to detect issues
  • 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
VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage Training [V6.7] Course Wrap-Up

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