C O U R S E D A T A S HE E T

VMware vSAN: Management

and Operations

Course Overview
In this three-day course, you learn about managing and operating VMware vSAN™ 7 . This course focuses on building the
required skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as, vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security
operations and advanced vSAN cluster operations. You also gain practical experience through the completion of instructor-
led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Define the tasks involved in vSAN node management
• Updating and upgrading vSAN using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager™
• Explain vSAN resilience and data availability features
• Reconfigure vSAN storage policies and observe the cluster-wide impact
• Perform vSAN cluster scale-out and scale-up operations
• Describe common vSAN cluster maintenance operations
• Control vSAN resync operations
• Manage two-node cluster and stretched cluster advance operations
• Configure vSAN storage efficiency and reclamation features
• Use VMware Skyline™ Health to monitor cluster health, performance, and storage capacity
• Describe vSAN security operations
• Configure vSAN Direct for cloud native applications
• Configure remote vSAN datastore and vSAN native file services
Target Audience
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of
VMware vSAN 7 .
Prerequisites
Completion of the following courses is required:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v7] or equivalent knowledge
• VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [v7]

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Course Delivery Options Product Alignment

• Classroom • VMware ESXi™ 7.0 U1
• Live Online • VMware vCenter Server® 7.0 U1
• Onsite • VMware vSAN 7 .0 U1
• On Demand

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Course Modules 5 HCI Mesh Using Remote vSAN

1 Course Introduction • Discuss the use cases for Remote vSAN
• Understand the high-level architecture
• Introductions and course logistics
• Describe remote datastore operations
• Course objectives
• Discuss the network requirement
2 vSAN Node Management • Interoperability between Remote vSAN and
• Recognize the importance of hardware VMware vSphere-High Availability
compatibility
6 Managing Advanced vSAN Cluster Operations
• Ensure the compatibility of driver and firmware
versioning • Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and
two-node clusters
• Use tools to automate driver validation and
• Understand the importance of Witness Node
installation
• Describe how stretched cluster storage policies
• Apply host hardware settings for optimum
performance affect vSAN objects
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform • Create and apply a vSAN stretched cluster policy to
meet specific needs
upgrades
• Discuss stretched cluster failure scenarios and
3 vSAN Resilience and Data Availability Operations responses
• Describe vSAN storage policies
7 Managing vSAN Storage Space Efficiency
• Recognize the impact of a vSAN storage policy
change Operations
• Describe and configure the Object Repair Timer • Discuss Deduplication and Compression techniques
advanced option • Understand Deduplication and Compression
• Plan disk replacement in a vSAN cluster overhead
• Plan maintenance tasks to avoid vSAN object • Discuss Compression only mode
failures • Configure Erasure Coding
• Recognize the importance of managing snapshot • Configure swap object Thin Provisioning
utilization in a vSAN cluster • Discuss Reclaiming Storage Space with SCSI
• Configure the vSAN fault domains UNMAP
• Configure TRIM/UNMAP
4 vSAN Cluster Maintenance
• Perform typical vSAN maintenance operations 8 vSAN Security Operations
• Describe vSAN maintenance modes and data • Identify differences between VM encryption and
evacuation options vSAN encryption
• Assess the impact on cluster objects of entering • Perform ongoing operations to maintain data
maintenance mode security
• Determine the specific data actions required after • Describe the workflow of Data-in Transit encryption
exiting maintenance mode • Identify the steps involved in replacing Key
• Define the steps to shut down and reboot hosts Management Server
and vSAN clusters 9 vSAN Cluster Monitoring
• Use best practices for boot devices
• Describe how the Customer Experience
• Replace vSAN nodes
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• 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

10 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

11 Native vSAN File Service

• 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

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VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto CA 94304 USA Tel 877-486-9273 Fax 650-427-5001 www.vmware.com
© 2020 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. The product or workshop materials is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed
at http://www.vmware.com/download/patents.html. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be
trademarks of their respective companies.

VMware warrants that it will perform these workshop services in a reasonable manner using generally accepted industry standards and practices. THE EXPRESS WARRANTY SET FORTH IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES
PROVIDED BY VMWARE, OR AS TO THE RESULTS WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED THEREFROM. VMWARE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY SERVICES OR PRODUCTS IDENTIFIED OR REFERRED TO
CUSTOMER. All materials provided in this workshop are copyrighted by VMware ("Workshop Materials"). VMware grants the customer of this workshop a license to use and make reasonable copies of any Workshop Materials strictly for
the purpose of facilitating such company's internal understanding, utilization and operation of its licensed VMware product(s). Except as set forth expressly in the sentence above, there is no transfer of any intellectual property rights or
any other license granted under the terms of this workshop. If you are located in the United States, the VMware contracting entity for the service will be VMware, Inc., and if outside of the United States, the VMware contracting entity will
be VMware International Limited.
VMWARE SKU: EDU-VSANMO7-OE REV. 10/2020