• Understand vSAN architecture, components, features, and use cases.
• Plan and deploy vSAN clusters based on infrastructure requirements.
• Configure storage policies, fault domains, and data availability.
• Manage vSAN resilience, storage efficiency, and encryption.
• Configure HCI Mesh, File Services, stretched, and two-node clusters.
• Perform cluster maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Understand vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA).

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Introduction to vSAN

• vSAN architecture
• vSAN software components: CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT
• vSAN objects and components
• Object-based storage
• All-Flash and Hybrid vSAN architecture
• Key features and use cases
• Integration and compatibility with VMware technologies

Module 3: Planning a vSAN Cluster

• vSAN cluster requirements and planning
• Planning and deployment best practices
• Storage consumption and failure tolerance
• vSAN host design
• vSAN networking features and requirements
• Traffic control and network configuration best practices

Module 4: Deploying a vSAN Cluster

• Hardware compatibility
• Driver and firmware compatibility
• Driver validation and installation
• Host hardware configuration
• vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Cluster QuickStart deployment
• Manual vSAN cluster configuration
• vSAN fault domains
• vSphere HA with vSAN
• vSAN cluster maintenance capabilities
• Explicit and implicit fault domains

Module 5: vSAN Storage Policies

• vSAN objects and components
• Witness components
• Large objects
• Object and component placement
• Storage policies
• Creating and configuring VM storage policies
• Applying and modifying storage policies
• Dynamic policy changes
• Storage policy compliance

Module 6: vSAN Resilience and Data Availability

• Object Repair Timer
• Disk replacement planning
• Maintenance planning
• Snapshot utilization

Module 7: Managing vSAN Storage Space Efficiency

• Deduplication and compression
• Compression-only mode
• Erasure coding
• Swap object thin provisioning
• SCSI UNMAP
• TRIM/UNMAP

Module 8: vSAN Security Operations

• VM encryption and vSAN encryption
• Data security operations
• Data-in-transit encryption
• Key Management Server replacement

Module 9: vSAN HCI Mesh

• HCI Mesh purpose
• HCI Mesh architecture
• Mounting and unmounting remote datastores

Module 10: vSAN File Service and iSCSI Target Service

• vSAN File Services
• File Services architecture
• vSAN file shares
• vSAN iSCSI Target Service

Module 11: vSAN Stretched and Two-Node Clusters

• Stretched cluster architecture and use cases
• Witness node deployment and replacement
• Two-node cluster architecture and use cases
• Storage policies for stretched clusters

Module 12: vSAN Cluster Maintenance

• vSAN maintenance operations
• Maintenance modes
• Data evacuation options
• Impact of maintenance mode on cluster objects
• Post-maintenance data actions
• Host and cluster shutdown/reboot
• Boot device best practices
• vSAN node replacement

Module 13: vSAN Cluster Monitoring

• Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)
• VMware Skyline Health
• Alerts, alarms, and notifications
• Custom alarms
• IOInsight performance metrics
• vSAN proactive tests

Module 14: vSAN Troubleshooting

• Structured troubleshooting methodology
• Configuration and operational troubleshooting
• Skyline Health investigation
• vSAN log files
• Diagnosing failures and performance issues

Module 15: vSAN Express Storage Architecture

• vSAN ESA purpose
• ESA components
• Storage policy differences
• Compression and encryption differences

4 days

• Plan and prepare a VMware vSAN cluster
• Configure vSAN networking and VMkernel adapters
• Deploy and configure a vSAN cluster
• Configure vSAN fault domains
• Configure vSAN storage policies
• Test storage policy compliance and data placement
• Configure deduplication and compression
• Configure vSAN encryption and data-in-transit security
• Configure vSAN HCI Mesh
• Configure vSAN File Services and iSCSI Target Service
• Configure stretched and two-node vSAN clusters
• Perform vSAN cluster maintenance and data evacuation
• Monitor vSAN health and performance
• Run vSAN proactive tests
• Troubleshoot vSAN configuration and operational issues
• Analyze vSAN logs and health information
• Configure and work with vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)

• Certification: VMware Certified Specialist – vSAN Specialist
• Exam: VMware vSAN Specialist v2
• Exam Code: 5V0-22.23
• Questions: 76 items
• Duration: 125 minutes
• Passing Score: 300 using scaled scoring

• Storage and Virtual Infrastructure Consultants
• Solution Architects
• VMware Administrators
• Infrastructure Administrators
• Professionals responsible for vSAN production support and administration

• Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• Or equivalent vSphere knowledge.