Course Overview
In this five-day course, you will focus on deploying and managing a software-defined storage solution with VMware vSAN™ 6.6. You will learn how vSAN functions as an important component in the VMware software-defined data center. You will gain practical experience with vSAN concepts through the completion of hands-on lab exercises. This course also teaches you how to use VMware vRealize® Operations™ as a forensic and predictive tool. Based on VMware ESXi™ 6.5, VMware vCenter Server® 6.5, and vRealize Operations 6.6, this course includes instruction on advanced capabilities, including customization and management.
Who should attend
- Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN
- Experienced system administrators and system integrators, and consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations content
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:
- Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices
- Understanding of concepts presented in the !VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (VICM) [V6.7] course
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the vSAN architecture
- Identify vSAN features and use cases
- Configure vSAN networking components
- Configure a vSAN cluster
- Deploy virtual machines on a vSAN datastore
- Configure virtual machine storage policies
- Perform ongoing vSAN management tasks
- Outline the tasks for upgrading to vSAN 6.6
- Configure vSAN encryption
- Control vSAN resynchronization tasks
- Create and manage nested fault domains
- Use the vSAN health service to monitor health and performance
- Configure a stretched cluster and observe failover scenarios
- Describe vSAN interoperability with VMware vSphere® features and other products
- Plan and design a vSAN cluster
- Navigate the vRealize Operations user interface
- Use alerts and analysis badges to troubleshoot common and complex vSphere operational issues
- Monitor capacity risk and infrastructure utilization
- Perform capacity planning and what-if analyses
- Customize vRealize Operations by creating alert definitions, symptom definitions, views, reports, dashboards, and super metrics
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Storage Fundamentals
- Introduction to vSAN
- vSAN Configuration
- vSAN Policies and Virtual Machines
- Managing and Operating vSAN
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting vSAN
- Stretched Clusters and Two-Node Clusters
- Interoperability with vSphere Features
- Designing a vSAN Deployment
- Designing a vSAN Deployment
- vRealize Operations Manager User Interface
- Troubleshooting System Heath Issues
- Capacity Planning
- Custom Alert Definitions