Kurssin jälkeen osaat käytännössä kaiken vSAN ympäristön hallintaan ja ylläpitoon tarvittavan. Erityisesti mm. seuraavat taidot:
• 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
• 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
• Manage two-node cluster and stretched cluster advance operations

Tämä kurssi sopii kaikille, joilla on tarvetta osata käytännössä vSAN ympäristön ylläpito ja hallinta ja joilla on jo perustiedot vSAN:sta.

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage -kurssi tai vastaavat tiedot sekä lisäksi VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy 7-kurssi suoritettuna.

1 Course Introduction
⦁ Introductions and course logistics
⦁ Course objectives
2 vSAN Node Management
⦁ 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
3 vSAN Resilience and Data Availability Operations
⦁ 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
4 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
5 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
6 vSAN Cluster Performance Monitoring
⦁ 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 VMware 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 a vSAN proactive test to detect and diagnose cluster issues
7 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 (KMS)
8 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
9 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
10 vSAN Native 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
11 Manage Advanced vSAN Cluster Operations
⦁ 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

Tämä kurssi yhdessä vSAN: Plan and Deploy -kurssin kanssa valmentaa hyvin testiin VMware vSAN Specialist Exam (5V0-22.21), jolla saavutat VMware Certified Specialist – vSAN 2022 sertifioinnin.