Who should attend
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with Virtual SAN
Prerequisites
- Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6] course
The course material presumes that a student can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
- Use VMware vSphere® Web Client
- Create and manage VMware vCenter Server® objects, such as data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines
- Create and modify a standard switch
- Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
- Create a VMware vSphere® VMFS datastore
- Use a wizard or a template to create a virtual machine
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
Course Objectives
- Describe the Virtual SAN architecture
- Identify Virtual SAN features and use cases
- Configure Virtual SAN networking components
- Configure a Virtual SAN cluster
- Deploy virtual machines on a Virtual SAN datastore
- Configure virtual machine storage policies
- Perform ongoing Virtual SAN management tasks
- Outline the tasks for upgrading to Virtual SAN 6.2
- Use the Virtual SAN health service to monitor health and performance
- Monitor Virtual SAN with VMware ESXi™ commands and the Ruby vSphere Console
- Configure • a stretched cluster and observe failover scenarios
- Describe Virtual SAN in• teroperability with VMware vSphere® and other products
- Plan and design a Virtual SAN cluster