Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of VMware vSphere
- VMware Hypervisor architecture
- Datastores
- vSphere components
- NetApp virtualization components
- Data storage virtual machines
- Data LIFs
Module 2: Introduction to the Virtual Storage Console Plug-In
- vCenter Installation components and options
- vCenter server deployment architecture 6.0
- Virtual Storage Console (VSC) overview
- VSC installation
- VMware vSphere APE for Storage Awareness (VASA) overview
- VASA installation guidelines
Module 3: NAS (NFS) Considerations
- VMware vSphere networking concepts
- Clustered Data ONTAP networking
- Networking best practices and recommendations
- NAS (NFS) datastores
- Export policies and best practices
- NAS LIF best practices
- VAAI Plug-in
- NFSv3 and NFSv4 differences
Module 4: SAN Considerations
- SAN storage virtualization – FC and iSCSI
- vSphere SAN network modeling
- ESX network design for IP storage
- Clustered Data ONTAP SAN implementation
- Configure FC in vSphere
- VM Kernel pluggable storage architecture
- Configure iSCSI in vSphere
- iSCSI implementation
- SAN datastores
- Clustered Data ONTAP LUN implementation
Module 5: Configuration of vCenter and VSC
- VSC role-based access-control
- VSC datastore-provisioning functionality
- Migrating virtual machines
- vCenter converter
- Cloning virtual machines
- Datastores cloning
- Virtualized environment alignment issues
Module 6: Configuation of vSphere Virtual Volumes Datastores
- Virtual volumes framework
- VVol advantages and concepts
- Protocol endpoints
- VASA provider overview and implementation
- Virtual machine storage policies
- VVol management
- Data ONTAP 8.3 on-demand functionality
Module 7: Advanced Storage Technologies
- VMFS datastore optimization: deduplication and thin-provisioning
- VMFS optimization best practice
- NFS datastore optimization and best practices
- VM optimization
- Storage QoS
- Storage I/O control
- VMware storage distributed resource scheduler
Module 8: vSphere Data Protection
- Virtual machine backup and restore
- SnapMirror disaster recovery for virtual machines
- VMware vCenter site recovery manager
- SnapCenter integration
- Snap creator framework
- MetroCluster
Module 9: Virtualization management in cloud environments
- NetApp Alta Vault cloud integrated storage
- OnCommand WFA 3.0
- OnCommand Shift overview
- OnCommand Shift deployment
Labs:
- Create a vSphere datacenter
- Add ESXi hosts to the datacenter
- Install VSC on a Windows Server
- Deploy the NetApp VASA Provider in an ESXi host
- Register the NetApp VASA Provider with VSC
- Set virtual machine (VM) start-up and shutdown options for the NetApp VASA Provider
- Create a virtual machine (VM) kernel port group in vSphere for IP storage access
- Configure a storage virtual machine (SVM) to support ESXi host datastores
- Configure the iSCSI service on a storage virtual machine (SVM)
- Create two virtual machine (VM) kernel port groups in vSphere, for iSCSI storage access
- Configure iSCSI on an ESXi host
- Use the NetApp Virtual Storage Console software client plug-in (VSC) to provision storage for a SAN Datastore
- Add a virtual machine (VM) to a datastore
- Use VSC to resize a datastore
- Import a VM into a datastore
- Create Storage Capability Profiles (SCPs)
- Use the datastore provisioning wizard to create a NAS-backed Virtual Volumes datastore
- Use the datastore provisioning wizard to create a SAN-backed Virtual Volumes datastore
- Verify deduplication on a datastore
- Isolate a virtual machine (VM) workload (LUN) by associating the workload with a Storage QoS policy group
- Isolate a virtual machine (VM) workload (.vmdk file) by associating the workload with a Storage QoS policy group
- Use VSC to create a backup job for a datastore
- Use VSC to restore a VM
- Delete a backup
- Configure OnCommand Shift server
- Migrate a VM from vSphere to Hyper-V
- Migrate a VM from Hyper-V to vSphere
- (Optional) Install and configure OnCommand Shift