By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the VMware vSphere 6.0 virtualization solution
• Articulate the NetApp value proposition for integrating clustered Data ONTAP with vSphere 6.0
• Configure physical and virtual infrastructures
• Use the clustered Data ONTAP operating system to provision virtual infrastructure
• Create, migrate, and clone virtual machines
• Describe the Virtual Volumes datastore-management process
• Protect virtual infrastructure
• Monitor and optimize virtual infrastructure
• Describe best practice for connectivity, provisioning, data layout, and multipathing
• Describe how deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning provide storage savings in a virtual environment

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

The following training classes or equivalent knowledge are recommended:

• Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3 Administration (D8CADM)
• NetApp Data Protection Administration (DATAPROT)
• Data ONTAP SAN Implementation (SANIMP)
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (Version 6.0) (VICM)