VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

Course Description

VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] prepares infrastructure and application professionals to work confidently with vSAN concepts, architecture, disk groups, object components, vSAN networking, vmkernel adapters, cluster configuration. Activities emphasize repeatable configuration, realistic tests, evidence quality, and accountable handover.

Practical work also covers VM storage policies, rules, RAID options, failures to tolerate, Health monitoring, performance charts, congestion. Evidence such as vSAN prerequisite assessment and logical architecture diagram, cluster build record and network communication test, storage-policy test matrix and object-compliance evidence, vSAN operations runbook and fault-recovery report supports boundary testing, fault isolation, corrective action, and safe transition to operational ownership.

On completing the course, learners can defend the implementation and operation of a correctly installed and managed vSAN 7 environment with compliant policies, resilient object placement, validated performance, secure configuration, and support-ready operations. A final plan identifies acceptance gaps, rollback considerations, owners, and operational safeguards.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how vSAN concepts, architecture, and disk groups establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure object components, witness behavior, hardware compatibility, licensing, network design, capacity, and cluster prerequisites, then confirm readiness through vSAN prerequisite assessment and logical architecture diagram instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering vSAN networking, vmkernel adapters, and cluster configuration, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read cluster build record and network communication test to isolate one host advertising vSAN traffic through a nonroutable vmkernel interface, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate VM storage policies, rules, and RAID options with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge failures to tolerate, object compliance, maintenance, resynchronization, capacity reservations, encryption, and data services using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with storage-policy test matrix and object-compliance evidence.
• Investigate a disk replacement being started before identifying a controller-wide path issue by reviewing Health monitoring, performance charts, and congestion before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare vSAN operations runbook and fault-recovery report that demonstrates network tests, disk replacement, object repair, upgrades, backup, troubleshooting workflow, and handover and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Sessions move from concept mapping to guided build, scenario analysis, evidence-based validation, reversible correction, operational review, and improvement planning. Both expected flows and failure conditions are tested before a result is accepted.