Management and Operations [v7]
In this three-day course, you will learn how to manage and operate VMware vSAN™ 7. The course focuses on building the skills needed to perform the most common vSAN administrator tasks on day two, such as managing vSAN nodes, cluster maintenance, security operations, and advanced vSAN cluster operations. In addition, you gain hands-on experience through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
COD: VSANMO7
Categorie: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 7.
Prerequisites
Completion of the following courses is required:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Define the tasks involved in managing vSAN nodes
- Update and upgrade vSAN using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager™.
- Explain the data availability and resiliency features of vSAN.
- Reconfigure vSAN storage policies and observe impact at the cluster level
- Perform vSAN cluster scale-out and scale-up operations.
- Describe common vSAN cluster maintenance tasks
- Check vSAN resync operations
- Handle switchover operations of two-node clusters and stretched clusters
- Configure vSAN storage efficiency and remediation features
- Use VMware Skyline™ Health to monitor cluster health, performance, and storage capacity.
- Describe vSAN security operations
- Configuring vSAN Direct for cloud native applications
- Configure remote vSAN datastores and native vSAN file services
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Management of vSAN nodes
- Recognize the importance of hardware compatibility
- Ensure compatibility of driver and firmware versions
- Use tools to automate driver installation and validation.
- Apply host hardware settings for optimal performance
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades.
3 vSAN data availability and resiliency operations
- Describe vSAN storage policies
- Recognize the impact of a vSAN storage policy change.
- Describe and configure the Object Repair Timer advanced option
- Plan for disk replacement in a vSAN cluster
- Plan maintenance activities to avoid failure of vSAN objects.
- Recognize the importance of managing snapshot usage in a vSAN cluster.
- Configure vSAN Fault Domains
4 Maintaining the vSAN cluster
- Perform typical vSAN maintenance tasks
- Describe vSAN maintenance modes and data evacuation options.
- Evaluate the impact on cluster objects of going into maintenance mode.
- Determine the specific data actions required after exiting maintenance mode.
- Define the shutdown and restart phases of vSAN hosts and clusters.
- Use boot device best practices
- Replace vSAN nodes
5 Mesh HCI with remote vSAN
- Discuss Remote vSAN use cases
- Understand high-level architecture
- Describe remote datastore operations
- Discuss network requirements
- Interoperability between Remote vSAN and VMware vSphere-High Availability
6 Advanced operations management of vSAN clusters
- Describe the architecture of stretched clusters and two-node clusters.
- Understand the importance of the 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 vSAN Storage Efficiency Operations Management
- Discuss deduplication and compression techniques
- Understand deduplication and compression overhead
- Discuss compression-only mode
- Configure erasure encoding
- Configure Thin Provisioning of swap objects
- Discuss storage reclamation with SCSI UNMAP
- Configure TRIM/UNMAP
8 vSAN Security Operations
- Identify the differences between VM encryption and vSAN encryption.
- Perform continuous operations to maintain data security
- Describe the workflow of encrypting data in transit.
- Identify the phases of replacing the Key Management Server.
9 Monitoring the vSAN cluster
- Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) helps VMware improve products and services.
- Use vSphere Skyline Health for vSAN cluster health monitoring.
- Manage vSAN-related alerts, alarms, and notifications in vSphere Client.
- Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues.
- Use IO Insight metrics to monitor vSAN performance
- Analyze vsantop performance metrics
- Use vSAN Proactive Test to detect and diagnose cluster problems.
10 vSAN Direct
- Discuss vSAN Direct use cases
- Understand the general architecture of vSAN Direct
- Describe the workflow for creating a vSAN Direct datastore.
- Explore how vSAN Direct works with storage policy tagging.
11 vSAN Native File Service
- Discuss vSAN file service use cases
- Understand the high-level architecture of vSAN file service
- Discuss the authentication model
- Configure file shares
- Monitor the health and capacity usage of file shares
Duration – 3 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
