In this three-day, official VMware vSAN training 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 and gain practical experience with vSAN concepts through the completion of hands-on lab exercises.
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Important VMware vSAN Course Information
Software/Tools
ESXi 6.7
vCenter Server 6.7
vSAN 6.7
Requirements
This course requires meeting one of the following prerequisites:
Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices
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 course 1743: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] before enrolling in VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage.
Who should attend this course
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN
VMware vSAN Course Outline
Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Describe the software-defined data center
Introduction to vSAN
Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
Describe the differences between file, block, and object storage
Explain the advantages of object-based storage
Detail the configuration of a vSAN cluster
Install and validate the initial vSAN installation and configuration
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.
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VMware vSAN Course Information
Software/Tools
ESXi 6.7
vCenter Server 6.7
vSAN 6.7
Requirements
This course requires meeting one of the following prerequisites:
Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices
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 course 1743: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] before enrolling in VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage.
Who should attend this course
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN
VMware vSAN Course Outline
Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
the software-defined data center
Introduction to vSAN
Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
Describe the differences between file, block, and object storage
Explain the advantages of object-based storage
Detail the configuration of a vSAN cluster
Install and validate the initial vSAN installation and configuration