In this three-day course, you learn about managing and operating VMware
vSAN™ 7. This course focuses on building the required skills for common
Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as, vSAN node management, cluster
maintenance, security operations and advanced vSAN cluster operations. You also
gain practical experience through the completion of instructor-led activities
and hands-on lab exercises.
Product
Alignment
- VMware ESXi™ 7.0 U1
- VMware vCenter
Server® 7.0 U1
- VMware vSAN 7.0
U1
Objectives
By the end of the course, you
should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Define the tasks
involved in vSAN node management
- Updating and upgrading vSAN using
VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager™
- Explain vSAN resilience and
data availability features
- Reconfigure vSAN storage policies and
observe the cluster-wide impact
- Perform vSAN cluster scale-out and
scale-up operations
- Describe common vSAN cluster maintenance
operations
- Control vSAN resync operations
- Configure vSAN
storage efficiency and reclamation features
- Use VMware Skyline™
Health to monitor cluster health, performance, and storage
capacity
- Describe vSAN security operations
- Configure vSAN
Direct for cloud native applications
- Configure remote vSAN datastore
and vSAN native file services
- Manage two-node cluster and stretched
cluster advance operations
Intended
Audience
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who are
responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN
7.
Prerequisites
Completion of the following
courses is required:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v7
or equivalent knowledge
- VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy
v7
Course 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 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
6 vSAN Cluster Performance
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 VMware 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 a vSAN
proactive test to detect and diagnose cluster
issues
7 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 (KMS)
8 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
9 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
10 vSAN Native 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
11 Manage 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
