VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] — Lesson 4: Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover

Learning Objectives

• Assess dependencies, controls, resilience, and the intended service outcome for Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover.
• Demonstrate the workflow and leave reproducible evidence in vSAN operations runbook and fault-recovery report.
• Recommend a preventive improvement after resolving a disk replacement being started before identifying a controller-wide path issue.

Detailed Topics

• Health monitoring
• Performance charts
• Congestion
• Network tests
• Disk replacement
• Object repair
• Upgrades
• Backup
• Troubleshooting workflow
• And handover
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor configures and tests Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover within a scenario aimed at a correctly installed and managed vSAN 7 environment with compliant policies, resilient object placement, validated performance, secure configuration, and support-ready operations. The walkthrough contrasts a valid setup with a flawed one and uses vSAN operations runbook and fault-recovery report to make the difference explicit.

Hands-On Exercise

Work through a role-based scenario involving Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover. Validate the expected path, test “a disk replacement being started before identifying a controller-wide path issue,” choose the safest corrective action, and capture the reasoning and outcome in vSAN operations runbook and fault-recovery report.

1. Map the current workflow and mark where the expected result can first be observed.
2. Run the scenario while preserving timestamps, object identifiers, and relevant output.
3. Apply a reversible correction only after evidence supports the cause.
4. Retest the original case plus an unaffected case and update the handover record.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how vSAN operations runbook and fault-recovery report should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Avoid changing multiple settings at once while troubleshooting Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover. Preserve the failing example, review vSAN operations runbook and fault-recovery report, and verify whether “a disk replacement being started before identifying a controller-wide path issue” is the root cause. After remediation, confirm downstream effects and add a monitoring action.

Validation Checklist

• Configuration and source state used for Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover are versioned or otherwise traceable.
• Vsan operations runbook and fault-recovery report shows both baseline and accepted result.
• Security, performance, dependency, and resilience side effects are considered where relevant.
• Recovery steps and handover notes are usable by an operations practitioner.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion, network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with vSAN operations runbook and fault-recovery report.