VMware vSAN Training Online

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Learn VMware vSAN Training step by step and gain the skills needed to design, deploy, manage, and optimize vSAN clusters in a VMware environment. This course helps you understand the vSAN architecture, configure clusters and storage policies, manage storage efficiency, and monitor cluster health. You will also learn to implement stretched and two-node clusters, configure vSAN File Services and iSCSI targets, perform troubleshooting, and optimize performance. By the end of the course, you will confidently manage vSAN infrastructure, ensure data availability, monitor and maintain clusters, and resolve issues, making you job-ready for roles in VMware administration, storage management, HCI operations, and virtualization consulting.

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Overview

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, VMs, datastores)
Understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, NICs, port groups)
Familiarity with storage fundamentals (SAN/NAS, RAID, storage concepts)
Awareness of virtualization concepts (hypervisors, snapshots, templates)
Hands-on experience managing ESXi hosts, vCenter, and VMs
Optional: understanding of HCI concepts and vSAN basics

What You Will Learn

Understand VMware vSAN architecture and components
Plan and design vSAN clusters and storage policies
Deploy and configure vSAN clusters using QuickStart and manual methods
Manage vSAN storage policies, deduplication, compression, and erasure coding
Implement vSAN resilience, fault domains, and maintenance operations
Configure and use vSAN HCI Mesh, File Services, and iSCSI targets
Monitor cluster health using VMware Skyline and IOInsight
Troubleshoot vSAN issues using logs, alarms, and best practices
Understand and configure vSAN security and encryption features
Work with stretched clusters, two-node clusters, and Express Storage Architecture (ESA)

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Flexible Schedule

Course Curriculum

Lesson 1 - Introduction to vSAN

1. vSAN architecture overview

2. vSAN software components (CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, RDT)

3. vSAN objects & components

4. Object‑based storage basics

5. All‑Flash vs Hybrid vSAN differences

6. vSAN use cases & integration with VMware technologies

Lesson 2 - Planning a vSAN Cluster

1. vSAN cluster requirements

2. Planning considerations & best practices

3. Storage consumption & failure tolerance planning

4. Designing hosts for operational needs

5. vSAN networking features & requirements

6. Traffic control in vSAN environments

7. Networking best practices

Lesson 3 - Deploying a vSAN Cluster

1. Hardware compatibility considerations

2. Driver and firmware version validation

3. Using tools for automated driver validation/installation

4. Host hardware settings for performance

5. VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager usage

6. Deploying vSAN with Cluster QuickStart wizard

7. Manual vSAN cluster configuration

8. Configuring vSAN fault domains

9. Using VMware vSphere High Availability with vSAN

10. Understanding implicit vs explicit fault domains

Lesson 4 - vSAN Storage Policies

1. vSAN object components & placement

2. Purpose of witness components

3. Creating and applying storage policies

4. Modifying storage policies dynamically

5. Storage policy compliance status checks

Lesson 5 - vSAN Resilience & Data Availability

1. Object Repair Timer configuration

2. Disk replacement planning

3. Maintenance planning to prevent object failures

4. Snapshot utilization overview

Lesson 6 - Managing vSAN Storage Space Efficiency

1. Deduplication & compression techniques

2. Compression‑only mode

3. Erasure coding configuration

4. Thin provisioning & TRIM/UNMAP space reclamation

5. Swap object thin provisioning

Lesson 7 - vSAN Security Operations

1. Difference between VM encryption and vSAN encryption

2. Ongoing data security operations

3. Data‑in‑transit encryption workflow

4. Key Management Server replacement steps

Lesson 8 - vSAN HCI Mesh

1. Purpose & architecture of vSAN HCI Mesh

2. Mount and unmount a remote datastore

Lesson 9 - vSAN File Service & iSCSI Target

1. Purpose of vSAN File Services

2. vSAN File Services architecture

3. Configure vSAN file shares

4. Overview of vSAN iSCSI Target Service

Lesson 10 - vSAN Stretched & Two‑Node Clusters

1. Stretched cluster architecture & use cases

2. Deploy/replacing a witness node

3. Two‑node cluster architecture & use cases

4. Storage policy differences for stretched clusters

Lesson 11 - vSAN Cluster Maintenance

1. Typical maintenance operations

2. vSAN maintenance mode & data evacuation options

3. Steps to shut down and reboot hosts/clusters

4. Best practices for boot devices

5. Replacing vSAN nodes

Lesson 12 - vSAN Cluster Monitoring

1. VMware Skyline Health for cluster monitoring

2. Alerts, alarms & notifications

3. Custom alarms configuration

4. IOInsight performance metrics

5. vSAN proactive tests for diagnosis

Lesson 13 - vSAN Troubleshooting

1. Structured troubleshooting methodology

2. Using VMware Skyline Health for issues analysis

3. Log files useful for diagnostics

4. Practical troubleshooting scenarios

Lesson 14 - vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)

1. Purpose & benefits of ESA

2. ESA components overview

3. Differences in storage policy behavior

4. Compression & encryption operation differences in ESA

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VMware vSAN Certification

After completing the VMware vSAN training course and hands-on lab exercises, learners receive a Course Completion Certificate from igmGuru. This certification validates your ability to deploy and configure vSAN clusters, manage storage policies, implement resilience and maintenance operations, monitor cluster health, perform troubleshooting, and optimize storage performance. It demonstrates your proficiency in managing VMware vSAN infrastructure for real-world virtualization and hyperconverged environments, making you job-ready for roles in VMware administration, storage management, HCI operations, and virtualization consulting.

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