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