VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage 6.x

1  Course Introduction
•  Course objectives
•  Describe the software-defined data center

2  Introduction to vSAN
•  Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
•  Describe the differences between file, block, and object storage
•  Explain the advantages of object-based storage
•  Detail the configuration of a vSAN cluster
•  Install and validate the initial vSAN installation and configuration

3  vSAN Configuration
•  Apply vSAN design considerations
•  Detail the expansion of a vSAN cluster
•  Configure vSAN disk groups manually
•  Identify physical network configuration requirements
•  Describe the configuration of vSAN networking
•  Test and validate the vSAN configuration and functionality
•  Describe the vSAN architecture and components
•  Describe the differences between the vSAN hybrid and all-flash architectures
•  Describe the advantages of all-flash architecture
•  Describe the space-efficiency features of vSAN
•  Describe the different vSAN assessment tools
•  Explain vSAN License Details

4  vSAN Policies and Virtual Machines
•  Explain how storage policies work with vSAN
•  Define and create a virtual machine storage policy
•  Apply and modify virtual machine storage policies
•  Change virtual machine storage policies dynamically
•  Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status

5  Managing and Operating vSAN
•  Explain how to configure encryption in the vSAN cluster
•  Explain the management of hardware storage devices
•  Identify alarms for vSAN events
•  Describe and configure fault domains
•  Describe the configuration of the vSAN iSCSI service, iSCSI targets, and LUNS

6  Stretched Clusters and Two-Node Clusters
•  Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
•  Create a stretched cluster
•  Describe how stretched cluster storage policies affect vSAN objects
•  Create and apply a vSAN stretched cluster policy to meet specific needs
•  Discuss the behavior of a stretched cluster when various types of failures occur

7  Monitoring and Troubleshooting vSAN
•  Discuss hardware failure scenarios
•  Describe the process of resynchronization
•  Explain the possible reasons for resynchronization
•  Describe the use of vSphere Client to detect issues
•  Explain the use of the health service to monitor vSAN health
•  Explain the use of the performance service to monitor vSAN performance.
•  Monitor and test the vSAN environment
•  Describe vSAN architecture components and the PNOMA OSI model.