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Introduction:
This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. In this course, you are taught the many considerations that the vSAN configuration has on the initial planning of the vSAN datastore. You also manually configure a vSAN cluster.
Audience profile:
Experienced VMware vSphere® administrators
Pre-requisites:
This course requires completion of ONE of the following prerequisites:
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course
- Knowledge of basic storage concepts
- Experience using vSphere Client to perform administrative tasks on vSphere clusters
Course objectives:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
- Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
- Describe the different vSAN deployment options
- Detail vSAN cluster requirements and considerations
- Apply recommended vSAN design considerations and capacity sizing practices
- Explain the influence of vSAN objects and components on the initial cluster plan
- Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance
- Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
- Explain Maintenance Mode use and its impacts on vSAN
- Apply best practices for vSAN network configurations
- Manually configure a vSAN cluster using VMware vSphere® Client™
- Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
- Understand and apply vSAN storage policies
- Define encryption in the vSAN cluster
- Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters
- Configure a stretched cluster
- Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target services
Course content
Module 1: Course Introduction | |
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Module 2: Introduction to vSAN | |
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Module 3: Planning a vSAN Cluster | |
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Module 4: Deploying a vSAN Cluster | |
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Module 5: vSAN Storage Policies | |
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Module 6: Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations | |
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Module 7: vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters | |
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Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN witness node |
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Associated certifications and exam:
VMware vSan specialist exam 5V0-22.21 will earn students the VMware vSan Specialist Badge.
On successful completion of this course, students will receive a Torque IT attendance certificate.
VMware Overview
VMware has been at the forefront with innovative software solutions that enable a software-defined enterprise. To take advantage, organizations need IT professionals who possess the cloud and virtualization skills required to support these environments.
For nearly 8 years, Torque IT has maintained the status of VMware Authorized Training Centre (VATC) in Africa. Torque IT is the first South African owned VMware Authorized Training Centre (VATC) that has locally available skills and resources to offer our clients the broadest range of scheduled authorized VMware training courses, across our national offices, or onsite at any of our customer’s offices across Africa.
Torque IT has been the proud recipient of the prestigious (VATC) of the year award in Africa for four consecutive years. These achievements reflect our commitment to providing you with the highest quality skills development, enablement, training, and certification solutions that demonstrate exceptional depth, breadth, and expertise across Data Center Virtualization, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Center & Cloud Management, Network Virtualization and End-User Computing.