VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.x]

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

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

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.

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