VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] («VSAICM»)

1. Course Introduction
   • Introductions 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 VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM 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 Service and iSCSI Target Service
    • Understand the purpose of vSAN File Services
    • Detail vSAN File Services architecture
    • Configure vSAN File Shares 
    • Describe vSAN iSCSI Target Service
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 twonode 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 

Cette formation s’adresse aux consultants en infrastructure virtuelle, aux architectes en solution et aux administrateurs responsables du soutien à la production et administration de VMware vSAN 8.

Les participantes et participants doivent avoir suivi au préalable la formation suivante : VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage ou posséder des connaissances équivalentes.

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