Information Technology

VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [v7]

Instructor-Led 7 Agenda

Description

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 end vSAN configuration has on the initial planning of the vSAN datastore. You also perform a fully manual configuration of a vSAN cluster.

Course Overview

Course Objective

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
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
Describe the architecture and use cases for two-node clusters
Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target services

Who Should Attend

Experienced VMware vSphere® administrators

Course Introduction Lesson Id 1

Course Introduction

Introduction to vSAN Lesson Id 2

Introduction to vSAN

Planning a vSAN Cluster Lesson Id 3

Planning a vSAN Cluster

Deploying a vSAN Cluster Lesson Id 4

Deploying a vSAN Cluster

vSAN Storage Policies Lesson Id 5

vSAN Storage Policies

Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations Lesson Id 6

Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations

vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters Lesson Id 7

vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters

Lesson Id	Title	Description
1	Course Introduction	Introductions and course logistics<br />Course objectives
2	Introduction to vSAN	Describe vSAN architecture<br />Identify vSAN objects and components<br />Describe the advantages of object-based storage<br />Describe the difference between All-Flash and Hybrid vSAN architecture<br />Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN<br />Discuss the vSAN integration and compatibility with other VMware technologies
3	Planning a vSAN Cluster	Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters<br />Apply vSAN cluster planning and deployment best practices<br />Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance<br />Design vSAN hosts for operational needs<br />Identify vSAN networking features and requirements<br />Describe ways of controlling traffic in a vSAN environment<br />Recognize best practices for vSAN network configurations
4	Deploying a vSAN Cluster	Deploy and configure a vSAN cluster using the Cluster Quickstart wizard<br />Manually configure a vSAN cluster using vSphere Client<br />Explain and configure vSAN fault domains<br />Using VMware vSphere® High Availability with vSAN<br />Understand vSAN cluster maintenance capabilities<br />Describe the difference between implicit and explicit fault domains<br />Create explicit fault domains
5	vSAN Storage Policies	Describe a vSAN object<br />Describe how objects are split into components<br />Explain the purpose of witness components<br />Explain how vSAN stores large objects<br />View object and component placement on the vSAN datastore<br />Explain how storage policies work with vSAN<br />Define and create a virtual machine storage policy<br />Apply and modify virtual machine storage policies<br />Change virtual machine storage policies dynamically<br />Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status<br />
6	Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations	Define and configure compression and deduplication in the vSAN cluster<br />Define and configure encryption in the vSAN cluster<br />Understand the remote vSAN datastore topology<br />Identify the operations involved in managing the remote vSAN datastore<br />Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target service
7	vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters	Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters<br />Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN witness node<br />Describe the architecture and uses case for two-node clusters<br />Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and vSphere Site Recovery Manager in a vSAN stretched cluster<br />Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster