VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

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Course Overview

As organizations adopt cloud and virtual infrastructure at scale, VMware vSAN™ remains the backbone of hyperconverged deployments. This training course teaches you to plan and deploy a production-ready vSAN cluster, with a deep focus on operational efficiency, security, and ongoing maintenance. You’ll build the skills to configure, manage, and troubleshoot vSAN environments using VMware vSphere, while gaining experience with vSAN architecture, storage policy design, and advanced cluster maintenance techniques—all reinforced through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, VMware solution architects, and administrators responsible for managing VMware vSAN 8.0 environments. It’s also well-suited for IT professionals supporting cloud-based or hybrid hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).

Course Objectives

    This VMware vSAN V8 training course equips professionals with the tools and knowledge to deploy, operate, and support vSAN clusters across complex environments. Participants will explore key design principles, policy-based storage management, and essential security operations.

    • Understand core vSAN architecture and software components
    • Plan and deploy scalable vSAN environments with hardware compatibility in mind
    • Configure vSAN fault domains, storage policies, and deduplication settings
    • Perform Day 2 tasks such as cluster maintenance, node replacement, and upgrades
    • Apply troubleshooting best practices using VMware Skyline Health and IOInsight
    • Work with stretched clusters, HCI Mesh, and File Services
    • Enable and maintain vSAN security features like encryption and key management

Course Outline

Course Introduction

  • Logistics and expectations
  • Review of course goals and structure

Introduction to vSAN

  • Explore vSAN architecture and object-based storage
  • Key components: CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT
  • Hybrid vs. All-Flash configurations
  • Integration with other VMware technologies

Planning a vSAN Cluster

  • Plan and deploy strategies
  • Sizing for growth and fault tolerance
  • vSAN cluster design and networking best practices

Deploying a vSAN Cluster

  • Hardware compatibility and validation
  • Use Lifecycle Manager and QuickStart
  • Install and configure clusters manually and via wizard
  • Define and apply fault domains

vSAN Storage Policies

  • Object-based storage model
  • Create and manage VM storage policies
  • Monitor compliance and dynamic policy changes

Resilience and Data Availability

  • Disk replacement planning
  • Maintenance task alignment
  • Snapshot usage and object repairs

Storage Space Efficiency

  • Deduplication, compression, and erasure coding
  • Thin provisioning and TRIM/UNMAP

Security Operations

  • Compare VM and vSAN encryption
  • Data-in-transit encryption workflows
  • Key Management Server (KMS) operations

vSAN HCI Mesh

  • Architecture and use cases
  • Mounting and unmounting remote storage

vSAN File Service and iSCSI

  • Configure File Shares
  • Overview of vSAN iSCSI target service

Stretched and Two-Node Clusters

  • Witness node configuration
  • Storage policy differences in stretched deployments

Cluster Maintenance

  • Node replacement and rebooting
  • Enter and exit maintenance mode safely
  • Object health and data evacuation procedures

Cluster Monitoring

  • Use VMware Skyline Health
  • Custom alarm configuration
  • Proactive testing and performance metrics with IOInsight

Troubleshooting

  • Structured troubleshooting methods
  • Log file analysis
  • Diagnose and resolve configuration issues

vSAN Express Storage Architecture

  • Components and policy differences
  • Efficiency, compression, and encryption behavior in ESA

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Eastern time

This is a 4-day class

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Register 08/18/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT
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Register 12/15/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT