VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [V7]

This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. In this course, you are taught the many considerations that the vSAN configuration has on the initial planning of the vSAN datastore. You also manually configure a vSAN cluster.

Duration

2 days

Audience

Experienced VMware vSphere® administrators

Prerequisites

You should have the following understanding or knowledge:

• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course

• Knowledge of basic storage concepts

• Experience using vSphere Client to perform administrative tasks on vSphere clusters

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

• Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN

• Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components

• Describe the different vSAN deployment options

• Detail vSAN cluster requirements and considerations

• Apply recommended vSAN design considerations and capacity sizing practices

• Explain the influence of vSAN objects and components on the initial cluster plan

• Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance

• Design vSAN hosts for operational needs

• Explain Maintenance Mode use and its impacts on vSAN

• Apply best practices for vSAN network configurations

• Manually configure a vSAN cluster using VMware vSphere® Client™

• Explain and configure vSAN fault domains

• Understand and apply vSAN storage policies

• Define encryption in the vSAN cluster

• Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters

• Configure a stretched cluster

• Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target services

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 Introduction to vSAN

• Describe vSAN architecture

• 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

• Identify vSAN objects and components

• 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

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

• Deploy and configure a vSAN cluster using the Cluster QuickStart wizard

• Manually configure a vSAN cluster using 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

• Explain how storage policies work with vSAN

• Explain the role of storage policies in planning a vSAN cluster

• Define and create virtual machine storage policies

• Apply and modify virtual machine storage policies

• Change virtual machine storage policies dynamically

• Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status

6 Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations

• Define and configure compression and deduplication in the vSAN cluster

• Define and configure encryption in the vSAN cluster

• Understand the remote vSAN datastore topology

• Identify the operations involved in managing the remote vSAN datastore

• Configure the vSAN iSCSI target service

7 vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters

• Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters

• Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN witness node

• Describe the architecture and use cases for two-node clusters

• Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and VMware Site Recovery Manager™ in a vSAN stretched cluster

• Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster