VMware vSphere on NetApp (VVNA)

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

Labs:
· Quick Explore of the new System Manager
· Create/Check Data Aggregates on both vSims
· Create SVMs
· Quick connectivity check (vCenter Appliance, ESX hosts)
· Quick Exploration of the new HTML5 client
· Check preloaded W2K3 VM
· Check preloaded Linux VM
· Set up and test vMotion Network
· Install RBAC User Creator
· Set up VSC (& VASA-P & VAAI plugin)
· Configure Hosts for BP settings
· Create VMkernel interfaces for NFS
· Create Subnets
· Provision NFS datastore through AppDM on AFF
· Install VAAI NFS plugin on ESX hosts
· Provision NFS 4.1 datastore
· Set ESX cluster up for dual subnet iSCSI design
· Create iSCSI SVM on NetApp AFF
· Provision iSCSI datastore through VSC
· Install/set up/verify working VASA provider
· Create SPBM policies for NFS and iSCSI
· Provision NFS datastore through VSC with above created SP
· Provision VVol datastore
· Create a NFS export and access it from the Linux VM
· Create a SMB share and access it from the W2K3 VM and from the W2K16 DC
· Install SnapDrive on W2K3 VM, create a LUN from there
· Create a RDM device, attach it to W2K3 VM and access it
· Set up and verify VMware HA
· Set up and check an SVM DR relationship