VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

Course Description

VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] prepares infrastructure and application professionals to work confidently with vSAN architecture, original storage architecture and ESA concepts, hardware compatibility, disk groups, Enabling vSAN, claiming disks, configuring networks. Activities emphasize repeatable configuration, realistic tests, evidence quality, and accountable handover.

Practical work also covers Storage policies, failures to tolerate, RAID options, object components, Health service, Skyline Health, performance service. Evidence such as vSAN readiness assessment and hardware-compatibility record, cluster enablement evidence and network-health validation, policy compliance analysis and object-layout evidence, vSAN health baseline and maintenance runbook 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 healthy vSAN 8 cluster with validated hardware, correctly claimed devices, suitable storage policies, resilient data placement, monitored performance, and recoverable operations. A final plan identifies acceptance gaps, rollback considerations, owners, and operational safeguards.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how vSAN architecture, original storage architecture and ESA concepts, and hardware compatibility establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure disk groups, cache and capacity devices, networking, licensing, and design prerequisites, then confirm readiness through vSAN readiness assessment and hardware-compatibility record instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering Enabling vSAN, claiming disks, and configuring networks, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read cluster enablement evidence and network-health validation to isolate vSAN traffic traversing a vmkernel interface with inconsistent MTU, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate Storage policies, failures to tolerate, and RAID options with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge object components, compliance, capacity reservations, namespace objects, snapshots, file services, and data placement using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with policy compliance analysis and object-layout evidence.
• Investigate a host entering the wrong maintenance mode and reducing object availability by reviewing Health service, Skyline Health, and performance service before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare vSAN health baseline and maintenance runbook that demonstrates capacity, resynchronization, maintenance modes, disk replacement, upgrades, backup considerations, and troubleshooting 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.