VMware vSAN: Management and Operations [V7]

In this three-day course, you learn about managing and operating VMware vSAN™ 7. This course focuses on building the required skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as, vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations and advanced vSAN cluster operations. You also gain practical experience through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.

Duration

3 days

Audience

Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 7.

Prerequisites

Completion of the following courses is required:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v7] or equivalent knowledge

• VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [v7]

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Define the tasks involved in vSAN node management

• Updating and upgrading vSAN using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager™

• Explain vSAN resilience and data availability features

• Reconfigure vSAN storage policies and observe the cluster-wide impact

• Perform vSAN cluster scale-out and scale-up operations

• Describe common vSAN cluster maintenance operations

• Control vSAN resync operations

• Manage two-node cluster and stretched cluster advance operations

• Configure vSAN storage efficiency and reclamation features

• Use VMware Skyline™ Health to monitor cluster health, performance, and storage capacity

• Describe vSAN security operations

• Configure vSAN Direct for cloud native applications

• Configure remote vSAN datastore and vSAN native file services

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 HCI Mesh Using 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

6 Managing 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

7 Managing vSAN Storage Space Efficiency Operations

• 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 Cluster 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 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 vSAN Proactive Test to detect and diagnose cluster issues

10 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

11 Native vSAN 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