VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting [V8] («VSANTR»)

• Learning vSAN best practices for planning and availability
• Outlining vSAN networking best practices
• Describing VMware Skyline Advisor™ Pro
• Learning about VMware Skyline Health™ for VMware vSAN™
• Discussing vSAN monitoring and troubleshooting tools integrated in VMware vSphere®
• Outlining the common vSAN troubleshooting commands
• Understanding how to benchmark vSAN performance
• Identifying factors which might impact vSAN performance
• Outlining vSAN troubleshooting framework
• Listing the most common vSAN issues
• Learning how to troubleshoot vSAN common issues
• Discussing how to get further support from the VMware community and knowledge base articles
• Learning how to effectively contact VMware technical support
• Enhancing and testing vSAN troubleshooting skills through labs

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

This course is aimed at experienced system vSAN administrators as well as customers, cloud architects, systems engineers and data center administrators.

You should have a good understanding of storage and network concepts.

Before taking this course, you must complete at least one of the following courses:

VMware Certification: Click here for an overview of the VMware certifications.

In this course you will receive electronic course materials. The documents will be sent to you by VMware prior to the course to the address you provided when you registered. You have the option of bringing your own tablet or laptop so that you can read the content and exercises in parallel to your lessons. In addition, you have your documents already saved in the right place.