VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy

Length 2 days
Version 7

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Why study this course

This 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.

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• VMware vSAN 7.0 U1

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What you’ll learn

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

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Who is the course for?

Experienced VMware vSphere administrators.

Course subjects

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

Prerequisites

Students 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

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