During this five-day, intensive course, you gain the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. You learn about managing and operating vSAN. This course focuses on building the required skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations, and advanced vSAN cluster operations.

You also focus on learning the tools and skills necessary to troubleshoot vSAN 7 implementations and gain practical experience with vSAN troubleshooting concepts through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.

This course is a combination of the following courses: VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy, VMware vSAN: Management and Operations, and VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe vSAN concepts
• Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
• Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
• Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
• Describe the different vSAN deployment options
• Explain how to configure vSAN fault domains
• Detail how to define and create a VM Storage policy
• Discuss the impact of vSAN storage policy changes
• Describe vSAN storage space efficiency
• Explain how vSAN encryption works
• Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target
• Detail HCI Mesh technology and architecture
• Detail vSAN file service architecture and configuration
• Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct
• Describe how to setup stretched and two-node vSAN clusters
• Explain the importance vSAN node hardware compatibility
• Describe the use of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to automate driver and firmware installations
• Detail vSAN resilience and data availability
• Discuss the vSAN cluster backup methodology
• Describe the vSAN maintenance mode and data evacuation options
• Define the steps to shut down a vSAN cluster for maintenance
• Explain how to use proactive tests to check the integrity of a vSAN cluster
• Use VMware Skyline Health™ for monitoring vSAN health
• Apply a structured approach to troubleshoot vSAN cluster configuration and operational problems

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to vSAN
• Planning a vSAN Cluster
• Deploying a vSAN Cluster
• vSAN Storage Policies
• vSAN Resilience and Data Availability
• Configuring vSAN Storage Space Efficiency
• vSAN Security Operations
• Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations
• vSAN Cluster Maintenance
• vSAN Stretched and Two Node Clusters
• vSAN Cluster Monitoring
• vSAN Troubleshooting Methodology  
• vSAN Troubleshooting Tools  

Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN [v7]

Completion of the following course is required:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge