VMware vSAN: Management and Operations [V7]

•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

•  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
•  Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades

•  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 managing snapshot utilization in a vSAN cluster
•  Configure the vSAN fault domains

•  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
•  Use best practices for boot devices
•  Replace vSAN nodes

•  Discuss the use cases for Remote vSAN
•  Understand the high-level architecture
•  Describe remote datastore operations
•  Discuss the network requirement
•  Interoperability between Remote vSAN and VMware vSphere-High Availability

•  Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
•  Understand the importance of Witness Node
•  Describe how stretched cluster storage policies affect vSAN objects
•  Create and apply a vSAN stretched cluster policy to meet specific needs
•  Discuss stretched cluster failure scenarios and responses

•  Discuss Deduplication and Compression techniques
•  Understand Deduplication and Compression overhead
•  Discuss Compression only mode
•  Configure Erasure Coding
•  Configure swap object Thin Provisioning  
•  Discuss Reclaiming Storage Space with SCSI UNMAP
•  Configure TRIM/UNMAP

•  Identify differences between VM encryption and vSAN encryption
•  Perform ongoing operations to maintain data security
•  Describe the workflow of Data-in Transit encryption
•  Identify the steps involved in replacing Key Management Server

•  Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) enables VMware to improve products and services
•  Use vSphere Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN Cluster Health
•  Manage alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in vSphere Client
•  Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues
•  Use IO Insight metrics for monitoring vSAN performance
•  Analyse vsantop performance metrics
•  Use vSAN Proactive Test to detect and diagnose cluster issues

•  Discuss the use cases for vSAN Direct
•  Understand the overall architecture of vSAN Direct
•  Describe the workflow of vSAN Direct datastore creation
•  Explore how vSAN Direct works with storage policy tagging

•  Discuss the use cases for vSAN file service
•  Understand the high-level architecture of vSAN file service
•  Discuss the authentication model
•  Configure file shares
•  Monitor file share health and capacity utilization