In this three-day course, you focus on deploying and managing a software-defined storage solution with VMware vSAN 6.7. You learn how vSAN functions as an important component in the VMware software-defined data center. You gain practical experience with vSAN concepts through the completion of hands-on lab exercises.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

•  Describe the vSAN architecture
•  Identify vSAN features and use cases
•  Configure vSAN networking components
•  Configure a vSAN cluster
•  Deploy virtual machines on a vSAN datastore
•  Configure virtual machine storage policies
•  Perform ongoing vSAN management tasks
•  Configure vSAN encryption
•  Control vSAN resynchronization tasks
•  Create and manage nested fault domains
•  Use the vSAN health service to monitor health and performance
•  Configure a stretched cluster and observe failover scenarios
•  Describe vSAN interoperability with VMware vSphere features and other products
•  Plan and design a vSAN cluster

Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN

This course requires meeting one of the following prerequisites:

• Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices

• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] course

Experience working at the command line is helpful.

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 ClientTM

• Create and manage VMware vCenter Server objects, such as data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines

• Create and modify a standard switch

• Create and modify a distributed switch

• Connect a VMware 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

If you cannot complete all of these tasks, VMware recommends that you complete the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] course before enrolling in VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage.