Backup & disaster Recovery with Veritas Backup Exec

VMware’s Software-Defined Storage (SDS) strategy is to evolve storage architectures through the pervasive hypervisor, bringing to storage the simplicity, efficiency, and cost-savings that server virtualization brought to compute. Software-Defined Storage abstracts the underlying storage through a virtual data plane, making the VM, and thus the application, the fundamental unit of storage provisioning and management across heterogeneous storage systems. By creating a flexible separation between applications and available resources, the hypervisor can balance all IT resources—compute, memory, storage and networking—needed by an application.

SDS applies at the VM level, allowing storage services to be tailored to the precise requirements of an application and adjusted as needed on a per-application basis, without affecting neighbouring applications. With SDS IT admins can precisely match application demand and supply at the exact time the resources are needed. SDS lets you leverage existing storage solutions, such as SAN and NAS, or direct attached storage on x86 industry-standard hardware. With industry standard servers, the backbone of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, IT organizations can design low-cost and scalable storage environments that easily adjust to specific and ever-changing storage needs.

What You Will Learn:

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives with vSphere, NSX and VSAN:

Storage Virtualization with VMware NSX

Describe the Virtual SAN architecture

Identify Virtual SAN features and use cases

Configure Virtual SAN networking components

Configure a Virtual SAN cluster

Deploy virtual machines on a Virtual SAN Data store

Configure virtual machine storage policies

Perform ongoing Virtual SAN management tasks

Outline the tasks for upgrading to Virtual SAN 6.2

Use the Virtual SAN health service to monitor health and performance

Monitor Virtual SAN with VMware ESXi™ commands and the Ruby vSphere Console

Configure a stretched cluster and observe failover scenarios

Describe Virtual SAN interoperability with VMware vSphere® and other products

Plan and design a Virtual SAN cluster.

Recommended Experience

• Familiarity with basic virtualization concepts
• Familiarity with VMware Workstation
• Familiarity with IP networking

Recommended Equipment

• Computer with 16 GB of RAM (32GB preferred) and Intel VT or AMD-V support

Related Certifications

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP6.5-DCV)
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP6.5)

Related Job Functions

• IT professionals
• Server administrators
• Virtual administrators
• Storage administrators
• Network administrators