Course Overview
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.
Who should attend
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 !VM-VICM course
- Completed the VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage (VSDM) course or equivalent experience with VMware vSAN.
- Experience working with linux command line interfaces.
Course 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
Course Content
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
vSAN Software Architecture
- Describe the different 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 placement and states
- Predict how specific failures affect object states
Troubleshooting Methodology
- Characterize problems
- Determine the cause of problems
- Solving problems
Troubleshooting Tools
- Understand the use of various troubleshooting tools
- Use the tools to resolve problems with the lab environment