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VMware vSphere on NetApp

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VMware vSphere on NetApp

Course code: VVNA

Duration: 5 Days

Prerequisites: 

•    System administration experience managing either the Linux or Microsoft Windows operating system
•    VM-VSICM7 or equivalent experience.
•    Completion of the ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP 9.6) (ONTAP9ADM) or equivalent experience.
 
Course Description:

In this course you will learn different methods to implement VMware vSphere 6.7u3 on NetApp ONTAP 9.6. The course provides a quick update on the current ONTAP and VMware versions, introduce the current tools to manage a VMware virtual infrastructure (VSC 9.6) and describe and provide practical exercises to provision datastores and storage for guest VMs with various protocols. It also points administrators to methods to back up their virtual infrastructure according to best practices and discusses methods and tools to manage and monitor for health and performance. 

Course Objectives: 

•    Discuss ONTAP Architecture and current Hardware
•    Describe vSphere Updates in 6.5 & 6.7
•    Discuss and install NetApp Tools and interfaces for VMware vSphere
•    Use Application Granular Data Management (AppDM)
•    Discuss NFS datastore deployment Best Practices
•    Discuss VMFS datastores
o    Discuss iSCSI datastore deployment Best Practices
o    Describe FCP datastore deployment Best Practices
•    Implement Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
•    Discuss VVol datastore deployment Best Practices
•    Implement Data Storage strategies for Guest VMs
•    Discuss Security and Performance considerations in a Multi-tenant environment
•    Implement High Availability and Data Protection Strategies in a virtual environment
•    Maximize utilization of your storage assets using built-in efficiency features
 
Intended Audience:

•    Data Center Operations Professionals
•    Cloud Infrastructure Architects
•    Cloud Administrators
•    Cloud Engineers
•    Storage Administrators
 
Course Outlines:

Module 1: ONTAP Review and What’s New
•    New supported Hardware
•    Efficiency Enhancements
•    Performance Enhancements
•    Networking Enhancements
•    Data Protection Enhancements
•    Management Tools

Module 2: VMware Review and What’s New
•    New vCSA, HTML5 “complete”
•    ESXi HTML5 host client
•    Virtual HW improvements
•    VMFS improvements
•    VVol improvements

Module 3: NetApp Tools for VMware
•    Native VAAI support in ONTAP
•    Native UNMAP support in ONTAP
•    System Manager AppDM
•    VSC
•    VASA Provider (for VVols)
•    SRA for SRM
•    SnapCenter Plugin
•    OCI
•    RBAC User Creator

Module 4: NAS Datastores, Classic: Networking & NFS
•    Networking Best Practices
•    vSphere Networking
•    NFS datastores, advantages, prerequisites and how to provision them
•    NFS 4.1 cautions

Module 5: SAN Datastores, Classic: VMFS
•    VMFS datastores, capabilities and limitations
•    FC datastores, networking considerations, FCoE
•    iSCSI datastores, networking considerations

Module 6: Datastores, Modern: SPBM & VVols
•    Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
•    VASA Provider
•    VVol datastores, capabilities and limitations, management

Module 7: Data Storage for VM Guests
•    (Mis-)Alignment
•    RDMs, advantages and limitations
•    NFS Exports
•    SMB shares
•    FC LUNs (In-Guest)
•    iSCSI LUNs (In-Guest iSCSI)
o    SCSI timeouts
o    BP for MS-Cluster

Module 8: Data Availability, VMware
•    VMware RBAC
•    High Availability
•    Resource Management, DRS
•    VMware HA
•    VMware FT
•    VM Guest Cluster
•    Network Contention, NIOC
•    Datastore Contention, SDRS

Module 9: NetApp Data Availability
•    Security, RBAC, Administration Delegation
•    Networking, QoS, A-QoS
•    Storage: RAID, HA-pairs, MetroCluster (FC, IP, SDS)
•    vSphere Metro Storage Cluster