VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage (VMVSANICM)

1 Course Introduction

• • Introduction and course logistics
• • Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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 vSphere Lifecycle Manager 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 vSAN File Services

• • Understand the purpose of vSAN File Services
• • Detail vSAN File Services architecture
• • Configure vSAN File Shares

11 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

12 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

13 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

14 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

15 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