VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

Course Overview

You will learn the skills, tools, and knowledge necessary to plan and deploy a VMware vSANTM cluster during this five-day course. You will gain knowledge of running and administering vSAN. This course's major goal is to give students the skills they need to handle Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such vSAN node administration, cluster maintenance, security operations, and advanced vSAN cluster operations. Completing instructor-led activities and practical lab exercises will teach you these abilities.

 

Prerequisites

Completion of the following module is required:

  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage, or similar knowledge

Audience Profile

The solution architects, administrators, and storage and virtual infrastructure experts in charge of VMware vSAN production support and management.

 

Course Objectives

You should be able to complete the following goals by the end of the course:

  • Introduce the vSAN concepts.
  • Provide specifics on the vSAN architecture and parts.
  • Describe the main characteristics and applications of vSAN.
  • List the prerequisites and planning factors for vSAN clusters.
  • Describe the significance of hardware compatibility for vSAN nodes.
  • Describe how to automate driver and firmware installations using VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM.
  • Outline the various vSAN deployment possibilities.
  • Describe the configuration of vSAN fault domains.
  • Describe the definition and construction of a VM storage policy.
  • Go over the effects of vSAN storage policy modifications.
  • Describe the availability and resilience of the vSAN.
  • Describe the effectiveness of vSAN storage space.
  • Describe the operation of vSAN encryption.
  • Identify requirements to configure the vSAN iSCSI target
  • Detail VMware HCI Mesh™ technology and architecture
  • Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
  • Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct Configuration™
  • Describe how to set up a stretched and a two-node vSAN cluster
  • Discuss the vSAN cluster backup methodology
  • Describe the choices for vSAN's maintenance mode and data evacuation.
  • Specify the procedures to shut down a vSAN cluster for upkeep.
  • Describe how to check the integrity of a vSAN cluster using proactive testing.
  • To keep track of the health of vSAN, use VMware Skyline HealthTM.

Content Outline

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Explain the architecture of vSAN.
  • Describe the CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT software components of vSAN.
  • Recognize vSAN components and objects.
  • What benefits do object-based storage offer?
  • Describe the distinctions between the hybrid and all-flash vSAN architectures.
  • Describe the main characteristics and applications of vSAN.
  • Talk about how vSAN integrates with and works with other VMware technologies.
  • List the prerequisites and planning factors for vSAN clusters.
  • Use best practises for vSAN cluster deployment and planning.
  • Establish and prepare a storage consumption plan for failure tolerance and data growth.
  • Create vSAN hosts based on practical requirements.
  • List the networking features and specifications for vSAN.
  • Outline techniques for regulating traffic in a vSAN system.
  • Recognize vSAN network configuration best practises.
  • Appreciate how crucial hardware compatibility is.
  • Verify that firmware and driver versioning are compatible.
  • Automate driver installation and validation using tools.
  • Use host hardware configurations for the best performance.
  • For upgrades, use vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
  • Use the Cluster QuickStart process to deploy and set up a vSAN Cluster.
  • Using VMware vSphere Client, manually configure a vSAN Cluster.
  • Describe and set up the vSAN fault domains.
  • Making use of vSAN and VMware vSphere® High Availability.
  • Be familiar with vSAN Cluster maintenance options.
  • Specify how implicit and explicit fault domains differ from one another.
  • Establish clear fault domains.
  • Appreciate how crucial hardware compatibility is.
  • Verify that firmware and driver versioning are compatible.
  • Automate driver installation and validation using tools.
  • Use host hardware configurations for the best performance.
  • For upgrades, use vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
  • Use the Cluster QuickStart process to deploy and set up a vSAN Cluster.
  • Using VMware vSphere Client, manually configure a vSAN Cluster.
  • Describe and set up the vSAN fault domains.
  • Making use of vSAN and VMware vSphere® High Availability.
  • Be familiar with vSAN Cluster maintenance options.
  • Specify how implicit and explicit fault domains differ from one another.
  • Establish clear fault domains.
  • Describe an item in vSAN.
  • Describe the division of an object's parts.
  • Describe the function of the witness components.
  • Describe the way vSAN saves big things.
  • Check the location of objects and components on the vSAN datastore.
  • Describe how vSAN's storage policies operate.
  • Specify and produce a storage policy for virtual machines.
  • Implement and change storage policies for virtual machines.
  • Dynamically alter the storage policies for virtual machines.
  • Check the compliance level of the storage policy for virtual machines.
  • Explain and set up the advanced option for the Object Repair Timer.
  • Plan a vSAN cluster's disc replacement.
  • Schedule upkeep actions to prevent vSAN object failures.
  • Be aware of how crucial it is to control snapshot usage in a vSAN cluster.
  • Discuss deduplication and compression techniques
  • Understand deduplication and compression overhead
  • Discuss the compression-only mode
  • Configure erasure coding
  • Configure swap object thin provisioning
  • Discuss reclaiming storage space with SCSI UNMAP
  • Configure TRIM/UNMAP
  • Describe the variations between vSAN encryption and VM encryption.
  • Carry out ongoing procedures to keep data security.
  • Describe the data-in-transit encryption process.
  • Describe the procedures needed to replace Key Management Server.
  • Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target
  • Detail VMware HCI Mesh technology and architecture
  • Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
  • Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct Configuration
  • Carry out standard vSAN maintenance procedures.
  • Describe the various data evacuation choices and vSAN maintenance modes.
  • Consider the effects of entering maintenance mode on cluster objects.
  • Identify the precise data operations needed after maintenance mode is ended.
  • Specify the procedures for rebooting hosts and vSAN clusters.
  • Use boot device best practises.
  • Change the vSAN nodes.
  • Describe the uses for extended clusters and their architecture.
  • Describe the installation and removal of a vSAN witness node.
  • Describe the two-node cluster's architecture and use cases.
  • Describe how a vSAN stretched cluster can benefit from vSphere HA and vSphere Site Recovery Manager.
  • Describe the vSAN stretched cluster's storage policies.
  • Describe how VMware is able to enhance its goods and services thanks to the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).
  • To keep track of the health of a vSAN cluster, use VMware Skyline Health.
  • Utilize VMware vSphere® ClientTM to control vSAN-related alerts, alarms, and notifications.
  • Design and set up unique alerts that sound when there are vSAN health problems.
  • Track vSAN performance with IOInsight metrics.
  • Examine the performance metrics for vsantop.
  • To find and resolve cluster faults, use a proactive vSAN test.

FAQs

A: Users have to work through a troubleshooting order in step and don’t have to skip any of the given steps:-

  • Verify that the reduced performance is unexpected behavior.
  • Verify that you are running the most recent version of the VMware product being used.
  • Check that VMware Tools are installed in the virtual machine and running the correct version

A: Following steps are required to troubleshoot a network and i.e.

  • Check Your Settings. First, check your Wi-Fi settings.
  • Check Your Access Points. Check your LAN (local area network) and WAN (vast area network) connections.
  • Go Around Obstacles.
  • Restart the Router.
  • Check the Wi-Fi Name and Password.
  • Check DHCP Settings.
  • Update Windows.
  • Open Windows Network Diagnostics.

A: The ability to adopt a systematic approach to identifying and solving a problem or issue is referred to as one’s troubleshooting skills. In other words, troubleshooting skills are the problem-solving abilities of a person.

 

A: The troubleshooting steps are broken into seven steps and i.e.

  • Identify problems…
  • Describe the current situation. …
  • Take temporary countermeasures on the spot. …
  • Find the root cause. …
  • Propose solutions. …
  • Establish an action plan. …
  • Check results.

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