VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [V7] — Lesson 1: Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints

Learning Objectives

• Assess dependencies, controls, resilience, and the intended service outcome for Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints.
• Demonstrate the workflow and leave reproducible evidence in vSAN requirements traceability matrix and compatibility review.
• Recommend a preventive improvement after resolving a chosen disk configuration meeting capacity but missing the required endurance rating.

Detailed Topics

• Workload requirements
• Performance profiles
• Availability targets
• Growth
• Data services
• Licensing
• Hardware compatibility
• ReadyNodes
• Controller modes
• And design constraints
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The demonstration traces Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints from requirement through execution and review. Learners see where evidence should be collected, how vSAN requirements traceability matrix and compatibility review supports validation, and which warning signs require investigation.

Hands-On Exercise

Configure and test Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints with representative infrastructure or application data. Use “a chosen disk configuration meeting capacity but missing the required endurance rating” as the troubleshooting challenge, compare hypotheses, retest the affected path, and complete vSAN requirements traceability matrix and compatibility review for review.

1. Map the current workflow and mark where the expected result can first be observed.
2. Run the scenario while preserving timestamps, object identifiers, and relevant output.
3. Apply a reversible correction only after evidence supports the cause.
4. Retest the original case plus an unaffected case and update the handover record.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how vSAN requirements traceability matrix and compatibility review should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

For a failure in Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints, separate access, configuration, compute, network, storage, integration, and timing causes. Compare the observed sequence with vSAN requirements traceability matrix and compatibility review; if “a chosen disk configuration meeting capacity but missing the required endurance rating” is confirmed, document why broader changes were rejected.

Validation Checklist

• The scope of Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints is clear, including what is deliberately excluded from the test.
• Evidence in vSAN requirements traceability matrix and compatibility review supports each material decision and outcome.
• A negative test demonstrates that controls reject or expose an invalid condition.
• Open risks, owners, due actions, and production safeguards are documented.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Workload requirements, performance profiles, availability targets, growth, data services, licensing, hardware compatibility, ReadyNodes, controller modes, and design constraints, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with vSAN requirements traceability matrix and compatibility review.