VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [V7]

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.

This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link:  VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [V7] - On Demand.

Product Alignment

•  VMware vSAN 7.0 U1

You should have the following understanding or knowledge:

•  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

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

•  Experienced VMware vSphere® administrators

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 two-node clusters

•  Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and VMware Site Recovery Manager™ in a vSAN stretched cluster

•  Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster