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<!DOCTYPE FL_Course SYSTEM "https://www.flane.de/dtd/fl_course095.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://portal.flane.ch/css/xml-course.xsl"?><course productid="2448" language="en" source="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-course/training-vvna" lastchanged="2025-12-24T11:38:14+01:00" parent="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-courses"><title>VMware vSphere on NetApp</title><productcode>VVNA</productcode><vendorcode>FL</vendorcode><vendorname>Fast Lane</vendorname><fullproductcode>FL-VVNA</fullproductcode><version>9.11</version><objective>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Discuss ONTAP Architecture and current Hardware&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe vSphere Updates in 6.7 &amp;amp; 7.0&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Discuss and install NetApp Tools and interfaces for VMware vSphere&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Discuss NFS datastore deployment Best Practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Discuss VMFS datastores
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Discuss iSCSI datastore deployment Best Practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe FCP datastore deployment Best Practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Implement Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Discuss VVol datastore deployment Best Practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Implement Data Storage strategies for Guest VMs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Discuss Security and Performance considerations in a Multi-tenant environment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Implement High Availability and Data Protection Strategies in a virtual environment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maximize utilization of your storage assets using built-in efficiency features&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</objective><essentials>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;System administration experience managing either the Linux or Microsoft Windows operating system&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] (VSICM7) or equivalent experience.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM) or equivalent experience.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</essentials><audience>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Data Center Operations Professionals&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cloud Infrastructure Architects&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cloud Administrators&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cloud Engineers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Storage Administrators&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</audience><contents>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;ONTAP Review and What&amp;rsquo;s New&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VMware Review and What&amp;rsquo;s New&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;NetApp Tools for VMware&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;NAS Datastores, Classic: Networking &amp;amp; NFS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SAN Datastores, Classic: VMFS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Datastores, Modern: SPBM &amp;amp; VVols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Data Storage for VM Guests&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Data Availability, VMware&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;NetApp Data Availability&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</contents><outline>&lt;h5&gt;Module 1: ONTAP Review and What&amp;rsquo;s New&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New supported Hardware&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Efficiency Enhancements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Performance Enhancements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Networking Enhancements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Data Protection Enhancements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Management Tools&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 2: VMware Review and What&amp;rsquo;s New&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New vCSA, HTML5 &amp;ldquo;complete&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ESXi HTML5 host client&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Virtual HW improvements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VMFS improvements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VVol improvements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VMware Tanzu &amp;amp; NetApp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VMware Cloud on AWS &amp;amp; NetApp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 3: NetApp Tools for VMware&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Native VAAI support in ONTAP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Native UNMAP support in ONTAP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;System Manager AppDM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ONTAP Tools for VMware 9.11&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VASA Provider (for VVols)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SRA for SRM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SnapCenter Plugin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;OCI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Active IQ Unified Manager&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 4: NAS Datastores, Classic: Networking &amp;amp; NFS&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Networking Best Practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;vSphere Networking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;NFS datastores, advantages, prerequisites and how to&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;provision them&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;NFS 4.1 cautions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 5: SAN Datastores, Classic: VMFS&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;VMFS datastores, capabilities and limitations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;FC datastores, networking considerations, FCoE&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;iSCSI datastores, networking considerations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 6: Datastores, Modern: SPBM &amp;amp; VVols&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VASA Provider&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VVol datastores, capabilities and limitations, management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 7: Data Storage for VM Guests&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;(Mis-)Alignment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;RDMs, advantages and limitations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;NFS Exports&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SMB shares&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;FC LUNs (In-Guest)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;iSCSI LUNs (In-Guest iSCSI)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SCSI timeouts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;BP for MS-Cluster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 8: Data Availability, VMware&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;VMware RBAC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;High Availability&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Resource Management, DRS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VMware HA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VMware FT&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VM Guest Cluster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Network Contention, NIOC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Datastore Contention, SDRS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 9: NetApp Data Availability&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Security, RBAC, Administration Delegation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Networking, QoS, A-QoS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Storage: RAID, HA-pairs, MetroCluster (FC, IP, SDS)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;vSphere Metro Storage Cluster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Labs:&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Quick Explore of the new System Manager&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create/Check Data Aggregates on both vSims&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create SVMs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quick connectivity check (vCenter Appliance, ESX hosts)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quick Exploration of the HTML5 client&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Check preloaded W2K3 VM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Check preloaded Linux VM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Set up and test vMotion Network&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Install RBAC User Creator&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Set up VSC (&amp;amp; VASA-P &amp;amp; VAAI plugin)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure Hosts for BP settings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create VMkernel interfaces for NFS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create Subnets&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Provision NFS datastore through AppDM on AFF&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Install VAAI NFS plugin on ESX hosts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Provision NFS 4.1 datastore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Set ESX cluster up for dual subnet iSCSI design&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create iSCSI SVM on NetApp AFF&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Provision iSCSI datastore through VSC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Install/set up/verify working VASA provider&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create SPBM policies for NFS and iSCSI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Provision NFS datastore through VSC with above created&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Provision VVol datastore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a NFS export and access it from the Linux VM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a SMB share and access it from the W2K3 VM and&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;from the W2K16 DC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a RDM device, attach it to W2K16 VM and access it&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Set up and verify VMware HA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Set up and check an SVM DR relationship&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</outline><objective_plain>- Discuss ONTAP Architecture and current Hardware
- Describe vSphere Updates in 6.7 &amp; 7.0
- Discuss and install NetApp Tools and interfaces for VMware vSphere
- Discuss NFS datastore deployment Best Practices
- Discuss VMFS datastores

- Discuss iSCSI datastore deployment Best Practices
- 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</objective_plain><essentials_plain>- System administration experience managing either the Linux or Microsoft Windows operating system
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] (VSICM7) or equivalent experience.
- ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM) or equivalent experience.</essentials_plain><audience_plain>- Data Center Operations Professionals
- Cloud Infrastructure Architects
- Cloud Administrators
- Cloud Engineers
- Storage Administrators</audience_plain><contents_plain>- ONTAP Review and What’s New
- VMware Review and What’s New
- NetApp Tools for VMware
- NAS Datastores, Classic: Networking &amp; NFS
- SAN Datastores, Classic: VMFS
- Datastores, Modern: SPBM &amp; VVols
- Data Storage for VM Guests
- Data Availability, VMware
- NetApp Data Availability</contents_plain><outline_plain>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
- VMware Tanzu &amp; NetApp
- VMware Cloud on AWS &amp; NetApp
Module 3: NetApp Tools for VMware


- Native VAAI support in ONTAP
- Native UNMAP support in ONTAP
- System Manager AppDM
- ONTAP Tools for VMware 9.11
- VASA Provider (for VVols)
- SRA for SRM
- SnapCenter Plugin
- OCI
- Active IQ Unified Manager
Module 4: NAS Datastores, Classic: Networking &amp; 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 &amp; 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)
- SCSI timeouts
- 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 HTML5 client
- Check preloaded W2K3 VM
- Check preloaded Linux VM
- Set up and test vMotion Network
- Install RBAC User Creator
- Set up VSC (&amp; VASA-P &amp; 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
- Create a RDM device, attach it to W2K16 VM and access it
- Set up and verify VMware HA
- Set up and check an SVM DR relationship</outline_plain><duration unit="d" days="5">5 days</duration><pricelist><price country="JP" currency="JPY">475000.00</price><price country="BE" currency="EUR">4500.00</price><price country="VE" currency="USD">2250.00</price><price country="FR" currency="EUR">4500.00</price><price country="TW" currency="USD">3600.00</price><price country="HK" currency="USD">3600.00</price><price country="IE" currency="EUR">4500.00</price><price country="ES" currency="EUR">4500.00</price><price country="PH" currency="PHP">155000.00</price><price country="ID" currency="USD">4100.00</price><price country="LK" currency="USD">4100.00</price><price country="MY" currency="USD">4100.00</price><price country="TH" currency="USD">4100.00</price><price country="VN" currency="USD">4100.00</price><price country="CN" currency="CNY">14625.00</price><price country="NZ" currency="USD">4500.00</price><price country="AE" currency="USD">4500.00</price><price country="UA" 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