Course Overview
TOPIn this two-day course, you focus on learning the tools and skills necessary to troubleshoot VMware vSAN 7 implementations. You gain practical experience with vSAN troubleshooting concepts through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 03/20/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 05/15/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPDescribe the architectural components of vSAN and their roles
- Explain how the components interact with each other
- Explain the differences between object and component states
- Describe how to use Skyline Health to investigate and help determine failure conditions
- Explain how to use the command-line tools to help determine failure conditions
- By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Outline
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Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the vSAN architecture and components
- Describe the policy-driven, object-based vSAN storage environment
- Describe the CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT vSAN software components
- Explain the relationship between objects and components
- Determine how specific storage policies affect components
- Describe component placement
- Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
- Apply troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and optimize troubleshooting efficienc
- Discuss VMware Skyline Health and the associated service
- Explain which log files are useful for vSAN troubleshooting
- Use log files to help troubleshoot vSAN problems
- Describe the use of VMware Skyline Health to identify and correct problems in VMware vSAN
- Apply information presented by vSAN Health online towards problem-solving
- Use vsantop to view vSAN performance metrics
- Discuss the ways to run commands from the vCenter Server and ESXi command lines
- Discuss the ways to access vSphere ESXi Shell
- Use commands to view, configure, and manage your vSphere environment
- Discuss the esxcli vsan namespace commands
- Discuss when to use Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) commands
Prerequisites
TOPVMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
- VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy
- VMware vSAN: Management and Operations
- Use VMware vSphere Client for common operations
- Create and manage VMware vCenter Server objects, such as data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines
- Create and modify a standard switch
- Modify a distributed switch
- Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
- Use a wizard or a template to create a virtual machine
- Before taking this course, students should take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and experience:
Who Should Attend
TOPStorage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to be able to perform initial troubleshooting on their software-defined storage with vSAN
