VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.x] (EDU-VSANTSW6)

In this two-day course, you will focus on learning the tools and skills necessary to troubleshoot VMware vSAN™ 6.6 implementations. You will gain practical experience with vSAN troubleshooting concepts through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on challenge lab exercises.

Objectives

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

• Describe the software components
• Understand how the components relate to each other
• Understand vSAN object placement
• Understand the differences between object states
• Explain how storage policies affect object states
• Predict how specific failures affect object states

Intended Audience

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

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:

• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] course
• Completed the VMware vSAN Deploy and Manage [V6.x] course or equivalent experience with VMware vSAN.
• Experience working with linux command line interfaces.

The course presumes that a student can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling:

• Use VMware vSphere® Web Client
• Create and manage VMware vCenter Server® objects, such as data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines
• Create and modify a standard 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.x] and VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [v6.x] courses before enrolling in VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting.

Product Alignment

• ESXi 6.5
• vCenter Server 6.5
• vSAN 6