VMware vSAN: Production Operations [V6.7]
In this two-day course, you focus on building skills in configuring and performing common administrator and end-user tasks with VMware vSAN™ 6.7. You gain practical experience with vSAN production operations through the completion of instructor-led activities.
Duration: 30-35hrs
Course Content:
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- vSAN Host and Hardware Operations
- 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
- Recognize the benefits of using VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
- Compare the benefits of NIC teaming and Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Plan appropriately for networking configuration changes
- Identify ESXCLI commands and namespace options
- Recognize how to use ESXCLI commands for troubleshooting vSAN software and hardware issues
- Use Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) to get detailed information about the vSAN environment
- vSAN Data Availability Operations
- Describe vSAN storage policies
- Recognize the impact of a vSAN storage policy change
- 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 backing up data in vSAN
- Describe the VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Data Protection framework
- Recognize the importance of managing snapshot utilization in a vSAN 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
- Migrate vSAN to a new vCenter Server instance
- Use best practices for boot devices
- Upgrade and update vSAN
- Replace vSAN hardware by using scale-in and scale-out strategies
- vSAN Security Operations
- Identify differences between VM encryption and vSAN encryption
- Recognize how to perform ongoing operations to maintain data security
- Identify steps in adding an existing encrypted vSAN cluster to a new vCenter Server instance
- vSAN Monitoring and Performance
- Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) enables VMware to improve products and services
- Identify the vSAN tools and health checks available for monitoring vSAN health
- Manage alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in vSphere Client
- Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues
- Describe the vSAN tools and services that monitor vSAN performance
- Use performance views to access metrics for monitoring vSAN clusters, hosts, and virtual machines
- Explain how the writing of data generates I/O traffic and affects vSAN performance
- Use performance metrics to analyze the vSAN environment