VMware vSAN 7 Management and Operation

vSAN Node Management

• Hardware Compatibility
• Driver and firmware versioning compatibility
• Tools to automate driver testing and installation
• Host hardware settings for optimal performance
• vSphere Lifecycle Manager for upgrades

vSAN resiliency and data availability -operation

• vSAN Storage Policy
• Impact of a vSAN storage policy change
• Enhanced object repair timer option
• Scheduling of disk replacement in a vSAN cluster
• Maintenance tasks to prevent vSAN object failures
• Snapshot usage in a vSAN cluster
• vSAN error domains

Maintenance of vSAN clusters

• vSAN maintenance operations
• vSAN maintenance modes and data evacuation options
• Impact of input objects on cluster maintenance mode
• Data actions required after exiting maintenance mode
• Definition steps for shutting down and restarting hosts and vSAN clusters
• Replacing vSAN nodes

HCI Mesh - using remote vSAN

• remote vSAN
• Operation of remote datastores
• Network requirements
• Interoperability between remote vSAN and VMware vSphere High Availability Management

Stretched vSAN cluster operations

• Architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
• Importance of the witness node
• Impact of stretched cluster policies Storage on VSAN objects
• VSAN Stretched Cluster Policy
• Scenarios and responses to stretched cluster failures

Management of VSAN storage efficiency measures

• Deduplication and compression techniques
• Deduplication and compression efforts
• Compression-only mode
• Erasure coding
• Swap Object Thin Provisioning
• SCSI UNMAP
• Configuring TRIM / UNMAP

vSAN Security Operations

• VM encryption and vSAN encryption
• Workflows for data-in-transit encryption
• Key management server replacement

vSAN Direct

• Use cases for vSAN Direct
• Architecture of vSAN Direct
• Workflow for creating vSAN Direct Datastore
• vSAN Direct with Storage Policy Tagging

vSAN Cluster Monitoring

• vSphere Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN cluster health
• Alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in vSphere Clients
• Custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues
• IO Insight metrics to monitor vSAN performance
• vSAN performance metrics
• vSAN Proactive Tests to diagnose and determine cluster issues

Native vSAN file service

• Use cases for the vSAN File Service
• Architecture of the vSAN File Service
• Authentication model
• File share configuration
• File sharing and capacity utilization status

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