VMware ® Virtual SAN: Deploy and Manage v5.5

Course details

This training course focuses on deploying and managing a software-defined storage solution with VMware® Virtual SAN™ 5.5. This course looks at how Virtual SAN is used as an important component in the VMware® software-defined data center (SDDC).

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Course outline
• Identify benefits of the software-defined data center

2 - Storage Fundamentals Overview

• Define common storage terminology
• Identify common SAN architectures
• Identify characteristics of hard-disk drives and solid-state disk drives
• Explain file, block, and object-oriented storage architectures
• Contrast local, centralized, and distributed storage architectures

3 - Architecture

• Describe the Virtual SAN architecture
• Describe Virtual SAN objects and components
• Identify Virtual SAN capabilities
• Identify Virtual SAN use cases
• Identify the Virtual SAN network interconnect

4 - Configuring Networks and Clusters

• Configure a Virtual SAN network
• Configure a Virtual SAN cluster

5 - Storage Policy-Based Management

• Define the purpose of virtual machine storage policies
• Apply virtual machine storage policies
• Deploy virtual machines to Virtual SAN
• Modify virtual machine storage policies

6 - Managing and Monitoring

• Scale a Virtual SAN cluster
• Identify failure scenarios and responses
• Manage Virtual SAN with the VMware vSphere® Web Client
• Monitor Virtual SAN with Ruby vSphere Console (RVC)
• Manage Virtual SAN with RVC
• Monitor Virtual SAN with Virtual SAN Observer

7 - Designing and Planning

• Plan Virtual SAN cluster sizing
• Design a Virtual SAN cluster
• Identify Virtual SAN interoperability options

Target Audience: Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with Virtual SAN