VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
COD: VSANICM8
Categorie: VMware vSAN
• VMware ESXi 8.0
• VMware vCenter 8.0
• VMware vSAN 8.0
Metodologia didattica
Il corso prevede laboratori didattici in cui ciascuno studente potrà lavorare ai fini di portare a termine esercizi formativi che forniranno esperienza pratica nell’utilizzo dello strumento, per ciascuno degli argomenti affrontati durante il corso.
Chi dovrebbe partecipare
Consulenti, architetti di soluzioni e amministratori di infrastrutture virtuali e di storage responsabili del supporto alla produzione e dell’amministrazione di VMware vSAN 8.0.
Prerequisiti
È richiesta una conoscenza equivalente o il completamento del seguente corso:
Conoscenze/Competenze in uscita
Al termine del corso, dovreste essere in grado di raggiungere i seguenti obiettivi:
- Descrivere i concetti di vSAN
- Illustrare in dettaglio l’architettura e i componenti di vSAN
- Spiegare le caratteristiche principali e i casi d’uso di vSAN.
- Identificare i requisiti e le considerazioni sulla pianificazione dei cluster vSAN.
- Spiegare l’importanza della compatibilità hardware dei nodi vSAN
- Descrivere le diverse opzioni di implementazione di vSAN
- Spiegare come configurare i domini di errore di vSAN.
- Illustrare come definire e creare un criterio di storage per le macchine virtuali.
- Discutere l’impatto delle modifiche ai criteri di storage di vSAN.
- Descrivere in dettaglio la resilienza e la disponibilità dei dati di vSAN.
- Descrivere l’efficienza dello spazio di archiviazione di vSAN
- Spiegare come funziona la crittografia di vSAN
- Descrivere in dettaglio la tecnologia e l’architettura di VMware HCI Mesh™.
- Dettaglio dell’architettura e della configurazione di vSAN File Service
- Descrivere come configurare un cluster vSAN a due nodi e un cluster a due nodi.
- Descrivere la modalità di manutenzione di vSAN e le opzioni di evacuazione dei dati.
- Definire le fasi di spegnimento di un cluster vSAN per la manutenzione
- Spiegare come utilizzare i test proattivi per verificare l’integrità di un cluster vSAN.
- Utilizzare VMware Skyline Health™ per monitorare lo stato di salute di vSAN.
- Utilizzare VMware Skyline Health per indagare e contribuire a determinare le condizioni di guasto.
- Discutere le best practice per la risoluzione dei problemi di vSAN.
- Descrivere i concetti della vSAN Express Storage Architecture™.
Programma didattico
1 Course Introduction
• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction to vSAN
• Describe vSAN architecture
• Describe the vSAN software components: CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT
• 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
3 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
4 Deploying a vSAN Cluster
• 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 VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM
to perform upgrades
• Deploy and configure a vSAN Cluster using the Cluster QuickStart wizard
• Manually configure a vSAN Cluster using VMware 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
5 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
6 vSAN Resilience and Data Availability
• 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
7 Managing vSAN Storage Space Efficiency
• 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
8 vSAN Security Operations
• 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
9 vSAN HCI Mesh
• Understand the purpose of vSAN HCI Mesh
• Detail vSAN HCI Mesh technology and architecture
• Perform mount and unmount of a remote datastore
10 vSAN File Service and iSCSI Target Service
• Understand the purpose of vSAN File Services
• Detail vSAN File Services architecture
• Configure vSAN File Shares
• Describe vSAN iSCSI Target Service
11 vSAN Stretched and Two Node Clusters
• Describe the architecture and uses case for stretched clusters
• Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN witness node
• Describe the architecture and uses case for two-node clusters
• Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster
12 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
• Use best practices for boot devices
• Replace vSAN nodes
13 vSAN Cluster Monitoring
• Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) enables VMware to improve products and services
• Use VMware Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN cluster health
• Manage alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in VMware vSphere® Client™
• Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues
• Use IOInsight metrics for monitoring vSAN performance
• Use a vSAN proactive test to detect and diagnose cluster issues
14 vSAN Troubleshooting
• Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
• Apply troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and optimize troubleshooting efficiency
• Use VMware Skyline Health to investigate and help determine failure conditions
• Explain which log files are useful for vSAN troubleshooting
15 vSAN Express Storage Architecture
• Understand the purpose of vSAN Express Storage Architecture
• Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture
components
• Identify Storage Policy differences
• Understand compression and encryption operation differences
Durata – 4 giorni
Erogazione – in Aula, On Site, Remoto
Requisiti PC e SW:
- Connessione Internet
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Trainer: Italiano
Labs: Inglese
Slides: Inglese
