VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [v7]

2 Days

12 CPD hours

Experienced VMware vSphere administrators

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN

Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components

Describe the different vSAN deployment options

Detail vSAN cluster requirements and considerations

Apply recommended vSAN design considerations and capacity sizing practices

Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance

Design vSAN hosts for operational needs

Explain Maintenance Mode use and its impacts on vSAN

Apply best practices for vSAN network configurations

Manually configure a vSAN cluster using VMware vSphere Client™

Explain and configure vSAN fault domains

Understand and apply vSAN storage policies

Define encryption in the vSAN cluster

Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters

Describe the architecture and use cases for two-node clusters

Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target services

This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN? cluster. In this course, you are taught the many considerations that the end vSAN configuration has on the initial planning of the vSAN datastore. You also perform a fully manual configuration of a vSAN cluster.

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to vSAN

• Describe vSAN architecture
• Identify vSAN objects and components
• Describe the advantages of object-based storage
• Describe the difference between All-Flash and Hybrid vSAN architecture
• Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
• Discuss the vSAN integration and compatibility with other VMware technologies

Planning a vSAN Cluster

• Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
• Apply vSAN cluster planning and deployment best practices
• Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance
• Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
• Identify vSAN networking features and requirements
• Describe ways of controlling traffic in a vSAN environment
• Recognize best practices for vSAN network configurations

Deploying a vSAN Cluster

• Deploy and configure a vSAN cluster using the Cluster Quickstart wizard
• Manually configure a vSAN cluster using vSphere Client
• Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
• Using VMware vSphere© High Availability with vSAN
• Understand vSAN cluster maintenance capabilities
• Describe the difference between implicit and explicit fault domains
• Create explicit fault domains

vSAN Storage Policies

• Describe a vSAN object
• Describe how objects are split into components
• Explain the purpose of witness components
• Explain how vSAN stores large objects
• View object and component placement on the vSAN datastore
• 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

Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations

• Define and configure compression and deduplication in the vSAN cluster
• Define and configure encryption in the vSAN cluster
• Understand the remote vSAN datastore topology
• Identify the operations involved in managing the remote vSAN datastore
• Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target service

vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters

• Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters
• Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN witness node
• Describe the architecture and uses case for two-node clusters
• Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and vSphere Site Recovery Manager in a vSAN stretched cluster
• Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster

Additional course details:

Delivery by TDSynex, Exit Certified and New Horizons an VMware Authorised Training Centre (VATC)

Nexus Humans VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [v7] training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward.