VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage V8 VSANICM8 Objectives

Key Point of Training Programs

• VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage V8 VSANICM8 Outline

  Course Introduction

  - Introduction and course logistics
  - Course objectives

  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

  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

  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 vSphere Lifecycle Manager 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  vSAN File Services:

  - Understand the purpose of vSAN File Services
  - Detail vSAN File Services architecture
  - Configure vSAN File Shares

  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 two-node clusters
  - Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster

  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

  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

  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

  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

• VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage V8 VSANICM8 Course Format

  Live Virtual Course

• VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage V8 VSANICM8 Prerequisites

  Equivalent knowledge or completion of the following course is required:

  VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage `{`V8`}` (VSICM8)