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VxRail Appliance Administration

  • Course Code VAA
  • Duration 3 days

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Course Overview

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This course presents the knowledge necessary to administer and manage a VxRail Cluster. Key topics include management interfaces, managing cluster configurations, resource provisioning and expansion, monitoring, managing availability, and basic troubleshooting. Hands on labs included in the course provide a step-by-step walkthrough of the key procedures to manage the cluster.

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Target Audience

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This course is intended for customers, partners and Dell EMC employees who will be responsible for administering and managing VxRail Clusters.
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Course Objectives

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Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe the VxRail Appliance system architecture and components

• Manage a VxRail cluster using vCenter and the VxRail Manager Plugin for vCenter

• Configure and provision resources on a VxRail cluster

• Monitor system status, health and performance

• Maintain the system and troubleshoot basic system issues

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Course Content

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• Module 1 :

VxRail Overview 

 VxRail Overview 

 Network Considerations

 Documentation and Resources 

 Lab: Explore VxRail Documentation and Resources

 • Module 2 :

 Administration and Management Overview 

 Introduction to VxRail Management Interfaces

vSAN Overview 

 VxRail Configurations

Lab: Explore VxRail Cluster with vSphere Client and VxRail Manager Plug-in 

 Lab: Explore iDRAC and ESXi Shell

 • Module 3 :

 VxRail Management 

 VxRail Manager Plug-In Overview 

 Monitoring VxRail

VxRail Roles and Permissions

Lab: Monitoring with VxRail Plug-in

• Module 4 :

Managing vSAN 

 vSAN Configuration 

 Storage Policies 

 Monitoring vSAN Cluster

vSAN Availability

Lab: Manage vSAN Storage Policies 

 Lab: Monitor Health and Performance of VxRail vSAN Cluster

Lab: FTT/FTM/Fault Domain Interactions

• Module 5 – Managing Virtualization

vSphere Concepts and Functions

Managing Virtual Machines 

 Managing Virtual Networks

Dell EMC OpenManage Network Integration (OMNI) for VMware vCenter

Lab: VM Deployment with vSAN Storage Policy

Lab: Configure VDS Port Group

 • Module 6 :

Availability Management 

 Availability Features 

 VxRail Data Protection Options 

 Stretched Clusters 

 Lab: Restart VM using HA 

 Lab: Node Utilization and Failover

• Module 7 :

 Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Maintenance Procedures

VxRail Manager File-Based Backup and Restore 

 Drive Expansion 

 Cluster Expansion

VxRail Software Upgrade

 Log Collection

Troubleshooting 

Lab: Generate VxRail procedures with SolVe Online

Guided Simulation - Cluster Expansion 

Lab: Log Collection

Lab: View VxRail Advisories and Knowledgebase Articles

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Course Prerequisites

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This course assumes that the students are familiar with:

• VxRail Appliance architecture and theory of operation

• IP networking and configurations

• VMware vCenter Server to configure virtual resources The VxRail Appliance 4.7.XXX Concepts On Demand course and the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course or equivalent knowledge are recommended.

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