VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage (VM-VSDM)

Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe the software-defined data center

Introduction to vSAN

• Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
• Describe the differences between file, block, and object storage
• Explain the advantages of object-based storage
• Detail the configuration of a vSAN cluster
• Install and validate the initial vSAN installation and configuration

vSAN Configuration

• Apply vSAN design considerations
• Detail the expansion of a vSAN cluster
• Configure vSAN disk groups manually
• Identify physical network configuration requirements
• Describe the configuration of vSAN networking
• Test and validate the vSAN configuration and functionality
• Describe the vSAN architecture and components
• Describe the differences between the vSAN hybrid and all-flash architectures
• Describe the advantages of all-flash architecture
• Describe the space-efficiency features of vSAN
• Describe the different vSAN assessment tools
• Explain vSAN License Details

vSAN Policies and Virtual Machines

• 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

Managing and Operating vSAN

• Explain how to configure encryption in the vSAN cluster
• Explain the management of hardware storage devices
• Identify alarms for vSAN events
• Describe and configure fault domains
• Describe the configuration of the vSAN iSCSI service, iSCSI targets, and LUNS

Stretched Clusters and Two-Node Clusters

• Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
• Create a stretched cluster
• Describe how stretched cluster storage policies affect vSAN objects
• Create and apply a vSAN stretched cluster policy to meet specific needs
• Discuss the behavior of a stretched cluster when various types of failures occur

Monitoring and Troubleshooting vSAN

• Discuss hardware failure scenarios
• Describe the process of resynchronization
• Explain the possible reasons for resynchronization
• Describe the use of vSphere Client to detect issues
• Explain the use of the health service to monitor vSAN health
• Explain the use of the performance service to monitor vSAN performance.
• Monitor and test the vSAN environment
• Describe vSAN architecture components and the PNOMA OSI model.

This course requires meeting one of the following prerequisites:

• Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices
• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere 6.7: Install, Configure, Manage (VICM) course

Experience working at the command line is helpful.
The course material presumes that a student can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

• Use VMware vSphere® Client
• Create and manage VMware vCenter Server® objects, such as data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines
• Create and modify a standard switch
• Create and modify a distributed switch
• Connect a VMware ESXi™ host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
• Create a VMware vSphere® VMFS datastore
• Use a wizard or a template to create a virtual machine
• Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
• Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®

If you cannot complete all of these tasks, VMware recommends that you complete the VMware vSphere 6.7: Install, Configure, Manage (VICM) course before enrolling in VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage.