VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage V8 Course
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.
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
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).
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- Logistics and expectations
- Course goals and structure
- vSAN architecture and object-based storage
- Core components (CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, RDT)
- Hybrid vs All-Flash configurations
- Integration with VMware technologies
- Cluster design, sizing, and networking best practices
- Hardware compatibility and validation
- Deploy with Lifecycle Manager and QuickStart
- Manual and wizard-based configuration
- Fault domains and witness node setup
- Object-based storage and VM storage policies
- Compliance monitoring and dynamic changes
- Disk replacement and maintenance alignment
- Snapshots, repairs, and data availability
- Deduplication, compression, and erasure coding
- Thin provisioning, TRIM/UNMAP
- vSAN and VM encryption, data-in-transit encryption
- Key Management Server (KMS) operations
- vSAN HCI Mesh architecture and use cases
- Remote storage mounting/unmounting
- vSAN File Service and iSCSI target service
- Stretched and two-node clusters (policy differences)
- Node replacement and maintenance mode
- Object health and evacuation procedures
- VMware Skyline Health and custom alarms
- IOInsight for proactive testing and performance metrics
- Structured troubleshooting methods
- Log file analysis and configuration issue resolution
- vSAN Express Storage Architecture: components, policies, efficiency, compression, encryption