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VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
During this five-day course, you will gain the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. You will learn about managing and operating vSAN. This course focuses on...
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$4,250 USD
GSA
$3,639.80
Duration
5 days
Course Code
EDU-VSANICM7
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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Jul 7, 2025 - Jul 11, 2025 (5 days)
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Sep 15, 2025 - Sep 19, 2025 (5 days)
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Nov 17, 2025 - Nov 21, 2025 (5 days)
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Overview
During this five-day course, you will gain the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. You will learn about managing and operating vSAN. This course focuses on building the required skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations, and advanced vSAN cluster operations. You will learn these skills through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe vSAN concepts
- Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
- Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
- Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
- Explain the importance vSAN node hardware compatibility
- Describe the use of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to automate driver and firmware installations
- Describe the different vSAN deployment options
- Explain how to configure vSAN fault domains
- Detail how to define and create a VM storage policy
- Discuss the impact of vSAN storage policy changes
- Detail vSAN resilience and data availability
- Describe vSAN storage space efficiency
- Explain how vSAN encryption works
- Identify requirements to configure the vSAN iSCSI target
- Detail VMware HCI Mesh™ technology and architecture
- Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
- Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct Configuration™
- Describe how to setup a stretched and a two-node vSAN cluster
- Discuss vSAN cluster backup methodology
- Describe vSAN maintenance mode and data evacuation options
- Define the steps to shut down a vSAN cluster for maintenance
- Explain how to use proactive tests to check the integrity of a vSAN cluster
- Use VMware Skyline Health™ for monitoring vSAN health
Who Can Benefit
- Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN.
Prerequisites
Completion of the following course is required:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v7] or equivalent knowledge
Course Details
Course Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
vSAN Best Practice and Problems Prevention
- Discuss the importance of vSAN planning and
- availability best practices
- Discuss vSAN networking best practices
- Discuss the importance of vSAN data protection
- Understand the Data protection best practices
- Discuss the importance of vSAN hardware
- compatibility
- Learn how to check hardware compatibility for
- vSAN
- List the factors that impact vSAN performance
- Learn how to benchmark vSAN performance
- Discuss the importance of VMware Skyline
- Advisor™
- Learn how to use Skyline Advisor
vSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting tools
- Explain the Skyline Health for vSAN features
- Discuss the other vSAN cluster-level monitoring in
- the VMware vSphere® Client™
- Discuss vSAN host-level monitoring in the vSphere
- client
- Discuss vSAN VM-level monitoring in the vSphere
- Client
- Understand task and event views in the vSphere
- client
- Describe vSphere Alarms
- Learn how to use the CLI to find information about
- vSAN cluster
vSAN Troubleshooting
- Learn the recommended vSAN troubleshooting
- process
- Describe the PNOMA framework
- Learn how to troubleshoot vSAN common issues
- Discuss how to get further support from the
- community and VMware knowledge base articles
- Learn how to effectively contact VMware technical
- support
Troubleshooting Labs
- Enhance and test vSAN troubleshooting skills
- through labs
Schedule
3 options available
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Jul 7, 2025 - Jul 11, 2025 (5 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Live Virtual |9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Sep 15, 2025 - Sep 19, 2025 (5 days)
Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Live Virtual |10:00AM – 6:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Nov 17, 2025 - Nov 21, 2025 (5 days)
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Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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Courseware was effective but would like to have some PDF material on BPML and XPATH
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Concise and good to follow along. Although it is a lot to take in under a short period of time.
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