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VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [V7]
This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. In this course, you are taught the many considerations that the...
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$1,700 USD
GSA
$1,455.92
Duration
2 days
Course Code
EDU-VSANPD7
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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May 27, 2025 - May 28, 2025 (2 days)
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Overview
This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. In this course, you are taught the many considerations that the vSAN configuration has on the initial planning of the vSAN datastore. You also manually configure a vSAN cluster.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
- Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
- Describe the different vSAN deployment options
- Detail vSAN cluster requirements and considerations
- Apply recommended vSAN design considerations and capacity sizing practices
- Explain the influence of vSAN objects and components on the initial cluster plan
- Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance
- Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
- Explain Maintenance Mode use and its impacts on vSAN
- Apply best practices for vSAN network configurations
- Manually configure a vSAN cluster using VMware vSphere® Client™
- Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
- Understand and apply vSAN storage policies
- Define encryption in the vSAN cluster
- Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters
- Configure a stretched cluster
- Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target services
Who Can Benefit
- Experienced VMware vSphere® administrators
Prerequisites
You should have the following understanding or knowledge:
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course
- Knowledge of basic storage concepts
- Experience using vSphere Client to perform administrative tasks on vSphere clusters
Course Details
Course Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Introduction to vSAN
- Describe vSAN architecture
- Describe the advantages of object-based storage
- Describe the difference between All-Flash and
- Hybrid vSAN architecture
- Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
- Discuss the vSAN integration and compatibility with
- other VMware technologies
- Identify vSAN objects and components
- Describe a vSAN object
- Describe how objects are split into components
- Explain the purpose of witness components
- Explain how vSAN stores large objects
- View object and component placement on the
- vSAN datastore
Planning a vSAN Cluster
- Identify requirements and planning considerations
- for vSAN clusters
- Apply vSAN cluster planning and deployment best
- practices
- Determine and plan for storage consumption by
- data growth and failure tolerance
- Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
- Identify vSAN networking features and
- requirements
- Describe ways of controlling traffic in a vSAN
- environment
- Recognize best practices for vSAN network
- configurations
Deploying a vSAN Cluster
- Deploy and configure a vSAN cluster using the
- Cluster QuickStart wizard
- Manually configure a vSAN cluster using vSphere
- Client
- Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
- Using VMware vSphere® High Availability with
- vSAN
- Understand vSAN cluster maintenance capabilities
- Describe the difference between implicit and
- explicit fault domains
- Create explicit fault domains
vSAN Storage Policies
- Explain how storage policies work with vSAN
- Explain the role of storage policies in planning a
- vSAN cluster
- Define and create virtual machine storage policies
- Apply and modify virtual machine storage policies
- Change virtual machine storage policies dynamically
- Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance
- status
Introduction to Advanced vSAN Configurations
- Define and configure compression and
- deduplication in the vSAN cluster
- Define and configure encryption in the vSAN cluster
- Understand the remote vSAN datastore topology
- Identify the operations involved in managing the
- remote vSAN datastore
- Configure the vSAN iSCSI target service
vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters
- Describe the architecture and use cases for
- stretched clusters
- Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN
- witness node
- Describe the architecture and use cases for twonode clusters
- Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and VMware
- Site Recovery Manager™ in a vSAN stretched
- cluster
- Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster
Schedule
3 options available
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May 27, 2025 - May 28, 2025 (2 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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Sep 8, 2025 - Sep 9, 2025 (2 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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Nov 12, 2025 - Nov 13, 2025 (2 days)
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Reviews
Instructor was great, course was mostly very good except for too much focus on pricing
This was effective way to provide a ton of information in a short time period.
Both course material and instructor demonstrated a sound foundation on Maximo material
The class was very vast paced however the teacher was very good at checking in on us while giving us time to complete the labs.
the course is good, covers many aspects, wish the lab is a little bit more in depth
