VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy

Course Introduction
– Introductions and course logistics
– Course objectivesIntroduction 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 technologiesPlanning 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 configurationsDeploying 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 domainsvSAN 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 statusIntroduction 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 servicevSAN 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