VMware vSAN Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

During this 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, troubleshooting and advanced vSAN cluster operations.

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Responsible	Mustafa Al-Qadi
Last Update	05/27/2025
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Course Introduction

5Lessons ·
- Importance
- Learner Objectives (1)
- Learner Objectives (2)
- Course Outline
- References
vSAN Introdcution

15Lessons ·
- Importance
- Module Lessons
- Learner Objective
- About vSAN
- vSAN Cluster Types
- vSAN Datastore
- vSAN Data Storage
- Available vSAN Storage Architectures
- vSAN OSA Disk Configuration
- vSAN OSA All-Flash Disk Group
- vSAN OSA Hybrid Disk Group
- vSAN ESA Storage Pool
- vSAN Storage Policies
- Review of Learner Objectives
- Key Points
Planning a vSAN Cluster

25Lessons ·
- Importance
- Module Lessons
- Learner Objectives
- Planning a vSAN Cluster
- Planning for Failures to Tolerate
- Planning for the Number of Hosts per Storage Policy
- vSAN OSA: Hardware Requirements
- vSAN ReadyNode
- vSAN ReadyNode Sizer
- vSAN ReadyNode Sizer Report
- vSAN OSA: Build Your Own Based on Certified Components
- vSAN ESA: Hardware Requirements
- vSAN ESA: ReadyNode Profiles
- vSAN ESA: Storage Capacity Devices
- vSAN VMware Compatibility Guide
- Storage Capacity Sizing Guidelines
- Planning Capacity for VMs
- vSAN ESA: Increased VM Density
- Designing a vSAN Network
- Remote Direct Memory Access (1)
- Remote Direct Memory Access (2)
- vSAN Proof of Concept Guides
- Lab: vSAN ReadyNode™ Sizer Demonstration
- Review of Learner Objectives
- Key Points
Deploying a vSAN Cluster

32Lessons ·
- Importance
- Module Lessons
- Learner Objectives
- Creating a vSAN Cluster
- Choose vSAN Cluster Configuration Types
- Manual Deployment vs Quickstart Deployment
- Quickstart - Cluster Basics
- Quickstart - Add Hosts
- Quickstart - Configure vSAN Networking
- Quickstart - Configure vSAN Services
- Quickstart - Additional Services
- vSAN ESA: Quickstart - Auto-Policy Management Configuration
- vSAN ESA: Auto-Policy Management Overview
- vSAN ESA: Manual Configuration: Auto-Policy Management Configuration
- vSAN OSA: Quickstart - Claim Disks for vSAN Datastore
- vSAN ESA: Quickstart – Claim Disks for vSAN Datastore
- vSAN ESA: Quickstart – vSAN Managed Disk Claim
- vSAN ESA: Manual Configuration – vSAN Managed Disk Claim
- Quickstart - Review
- Easy Install - Single Node vSAN Deployment (1)
- Easy Install - Single Node vSAN Deployment (2)
- Easy Install - Single Node vSAN Deployment (3)
- Easy Install - Single Node vSAN Deployment (4)
- Easy Install - Building the Remaining vSAN Cluster
- Validate vSAN Cluster Configurations (1)
- Validate vSAN Cluster Configurations (2)
- Validate vSAN ESA Auto-Policy Management
- vSAN ESA: Auto-Policy Management Alert
- About vSAN Reserved Capacity
- Configure vSAN Reserved Capacity
- Review of Learner Objectives
- Key Points
SAN Storage Policies

71Lessons ·
- Importance
- Module Lessons
- vSAN OSA Storage Policies
- Learner Objectives
- vSAN OSA Object Types
- About vSAN Objects
- VM Namespace Object Example
- Storing User Data in a Custom Namespace Object
- Using osfs-resize to Resize an Existing Namespace
- vSAN Objects and Components
- About Storage Policy Based Management (1)
- About Storage Policy Based Management (2)
- vSAN Storage Providers
- vSAN Storage Policy
- vSAN Storage Policy Creation
- Configuring vSAN Storage Policy
- No Data Redundancy
- About RAID-1
- vSAN RAID-1 Components
- Witness Quorum
- RAID-1/FTT 2 Storage Layout
- RAID-1/FTT 3 Storage Layout
- RAID-1 Storage Space Usage Comparison
- RAID-5 Erasure Coding
- RAID-6 Erasure Coding
- vSAN Storage Policy Space Consumption Comparison
- Review Learner Objectives
- vSAN ESA Storage Policies
- Learner Objectives
- vSAN ESA Object Types
- Review of vSAN OSA Snapshots
- vSAN ESA Snapshot Overview
- vSAN ESA Snapshot Benefits
- vSAN ESA Performance Leg and Capacity Leg
- vSAN ESA Performance Leg and Capacity Leg Components
- Capacity Leg Components
- Expanded View of vSAN ESA I/O Flow
- Adaptive Write Path Optimization in vSAN ESA
- No Data Redundancy Storage Layout
- RAID-1/FTT 1 Storage Layout
- RAID-5/FTT 1 Storage Layout
- RAID-5/FTT 1 Absolute Minimum vs Recommended Minimum
- Adaptive Storage Layout for RAID-5/FTT 1
- RAID-5/FTT 1 Distributed Parity Layouts
- RAID-5/FTT 1 Storage Layout Example
- RAID-6/FTT 2 Storage Layout
- Write Improvement for RAID-5/6
- Storage Space Consumption Comparison
- Choosing vSAN ESA Storage Policies
- Review Learner Objectives
- Advanced Storage Policies Configurations
- Learner Objectives
- Storage Rules
- Storage Rules Compatible
- Storage Rules Incompatible
- Defining Advanced Policy Rules
- Number of Disk Stripes per Object
- IOPS Limit for Objects
- Object Space Reservation
- Object Space Reservation Example
- Flash Read Cache Reservation
- Disable Object Checksum
- Force Provisioning
- Default vSAN Storage Policy
- Applying vSAN Storage Policy
- Verifying vSAN Storage Policy Changes (1)
- Verifying vSAN Storage Policy Changes (2)
- Verifying vSAN Storage Policy Changes (3)
- Minimize the Impact of Policy Changes on the Cluster
- Review Learner Objectives
- Key Points