COURSE OBJECTIVE:
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Learn vSAN best practices for planning and availability
• Outline vSAN networking best practices
• Describe VMware Skyline Advisor™ Pro
• Learn about VMware Skyline Health™ for VMware vSAN™
• Discuss vSAN monitoring and troubleshooting tools integrated in VMware vSphere®
• Outline the common vSAN troubleshooting commands
• Understand how to benchmark vSAN performance
• Identify factors which might impact vSAN performance
• Outline vSAN troubleshooting framework
• List the most common vSAN issues
• Learn how to troubleshoot vSAN common issues
• Discuss how to get further support from the VMware community and knowledge base articles
• Learn how to effectively contact VMware technical support
• Enhance and test vSAN troubleshooting skills through labs
TARGET AUDIENCE:
– Experienced system vSAN administrators
– Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Before taking this course, you must complete at least one of the following courses:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
• VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
You should also have understanding or knowledge of these technologies:
• Good understanding of storage concepts
• Good understanding of network concepts
COURSE CONTENT:
1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 vSAN Best Practice and Problems Prevention
• Discuss the importance of vSAN planning and availability best practices
• Discuss vSAN networking best practices
• Discuss the importance of vSAN data protection
• Understand the Data protection best practices
• Discuss the importance of vSAN hardware compatibility
• Learn how to check hardware compatibility for vSAN
• List the factors that impact vSAN performance
• Learn how to benchmark vSAN performance
• Discuss the importance of VMware Skyline Advisor™
• Learn how to use Skyline Advisor
3 vSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting tools
• Explain the Skyline Health for vSAN features
• Discuss the other vSAN cluster-level monitoring in the VMware vSphere® Client™
• Discuss vSAN host-level monitoring in the vSphere client
• Discuss vSAN VM-level monitoring in the vSphere Client
• Understand task and event views in the vSphere client
• Describe vSphere Alarms
• Learn how to use the CLI to find information about vSAN cluster
4 vSAN Troubleshooting
• Learn the recommended vSAN troubleshooting process
• Describe the PNOMA framework
• Learn how to troubleshoot vSAN common issues
• Discuss how to get further support from the community and VMware knowledge base articles
• Learn how to effectively contact VMware technical support
5 Troubleshooting Labs
• Enhance and test vSAN troubleshooting skills through labs
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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