VMware vSAN: Management and Operations [V7] Schulung

Einführung in den Kurs VMware vSAN: Management and Operations [V7]

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

vSAN-Knotenverwaltung

• 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

vSAN Ausfallsicherheit und Datenverfügbarkeit

• 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

vSAN Cluster Wartung

• 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

HCI-Mesh mit Remote vSAN

• 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

Verwaltung erweiterter vSAN-Cluster-Operationen

• 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

Verwaltung der vSAN-Speicherplatz-Effizienz-Operationen

• 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

vSAN-Sicherheitsmaßnahmen

• 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

vSAN Cluster Überwachung

• 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

vSAN direct

• 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

Nativer vSAN Dateidienst

• 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