VMware vSAN: Install Configure Manage V8

• 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

• Equivalent knowledge or completion of the following course is required:
  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 8.0.

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