Course Catalog
VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [V7]
Code: VMware vSAN
Duration: 2 Day
$1700 USD

OVERVIEW

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.

DELIVERY FORMAT

This course is available in the following formats:

Virtual Classroom

Duration: 2 Day

CLASS SCHEDULE
Call 800-798-3901 to enroll in this class!

GOALS

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
OUTLINE

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  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 twonode clusters
    • Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and VMware Site Recovery Manager in a vSAN stretched cluster
    • Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster
LABS

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Experienced VMware vSphere administrators.

PREREQUISITES

  • 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