VMware vSAN: Management and Operations [V7]

Course Description

VMware vSAN: Management and Operations [V7] develops hands-on understanding of vSAN operational architecture, object states, components, disk groups, Policy assignment, compliance, maintenance modes. Learners move from requirements and dependencies to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and supportable VMware operations.

Later lessons examine Performance service, dashboards, latency, throughput, Health alerts, support bundles, disk failures. Participants use vSAN operational baseline and object-state reference, maintenance execution record and compliance recovery test, performance investigation timeline and bottleneck evidence, vSAN incident-response guide and post-recovery validation to distinguish configuration, access, network, storage, performance, and lifecycle issues rather than treating them as one generic failure.

After the four lessons, learners can help establish a well-operated vSAN 7 service with controlled policies, capacity, maintenance, performance, health, fault response, upgrades, and support handover. They also document follow-up actions for performance, security, lifecycle, support, and adoption.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how vSAN operational architecture, object states, and components establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure disk groups, fault domains, health service, cluster services, storage policies, and administrative views, then confirm readiness through vSAN operational baseline and object-state reference instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering Policy assignment, compliance, and maintenance modes, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read maintenance execution record and compliance recovery test to isolate maintenance starting without enough free capacity to complete evacuation, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate Performance service, dashboards, and latency with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge throughput, IOPS, congestion, cache behavior, network diagnostics, hotspot identification, and workload correlation using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with performance investigation timeline and bottleneck evidence.
• Investigate a failed disk-group rebuild being repeated before controller health is checked by reviewing Health alerts, support bundles, and disk failures before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare vSAN incident-response guide and post-recovery validation that demonstrates network partitions, object repair, upgrades, encryption operations, backup considerations, runbooks, and escalation and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Training uses instructor walkthroughs, hands-on implementation, role-based exercises, boundary testing, troubleshooting drills, review checkpoints, and structured handover. Learners practise explaining why a result is acceptable rather than merely showing that a task completed.