Mastering VMware vSAN 8
4h 7mIntermediate2025-07-03
Authors
Rick Crisci
Technical Trainer and Information Technology Professional
Course details
VMware vSAN 8, the enterprise-class storage virtualization solution from VMware, offers a powerful and versatile HCI solution with improved performance, efficiency, and flexibility. It enables IT professionals to pool local or direct-attached storage devices across a vSphere cluster and deliver shared, resilient storage for virtual machines.
In this course, instructor Rick Crisci guides you through the core concepts and hands-on skills required to understand, configure, and manage VMware vSAN in both its Original Storage Architecture (OSA) and Express Storage Architecture (ESA). Explore the fundamental architecture of vSAN, learn how to create and scale clusters, and understand how vSAN integrates with policies, encryption, high availability, and fault domains.
Follow along with detailed demos that walk through real-world configurations—from network setup and cluster creation to failure testing and maintenance tasks. Whether you're preparing for a certification or working toward becoming proficient with vSAN in production environments, this course helps you build a strong foundation of essentials.
In this course, instructor Rick Crisci guides you through the core concepts and hands-on skills required to understand, configure, and manage VMware vSAN in both its Original Storage Architecture (OSA) and Express Storage Architecture (ESA). Explore the fundamental architecture of vSAN, learn how to create and scale clusters, and understand how vSAN integrates with policies, encryption, high availability, and fault domains.
Follow along with detailed demos that walk through real-world configurations—from network setup and cluster creation to failure testing and maintenance tasks. Whether you're preparing for a certification or working toward becoming proficient with vSAN in production environments, this course helps you build a strong foundation of essentials.
Skills covered
VMware vSANVMwareVirtualizationNetwork and System AdministrationOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - vSAN introduction
1. vSAN Concepts and Architecture
- 02 - vSAN basic architecture (OSA)
- 03 - Understanding disk groups
- 04 - vSAN vs. traditional storage arrays
- 05 - Hybrid architecture vs. all flash
- 06 - Introduction to NVMe flash devices
2. Basic vSAN Configuration
- 07 - Demo - Configure vSAN network
- 08 - Demo - vSAN configuration preparation
- 09 - Demo - Create a vSAN cluster (OSA)
3. Understanding vSAN Storage Policies and Encryption
- 10 - vSAN object storage
- 11 - Storage policies
- 12 - Demo - Storage policies
- 13 - vSAN encryption
4. vSAN Design and Configuration
- 14 - Fault domains
- 15 - Demo - vSAN fault domains
- 16 - Two-node vSAN clusters
- 17 - Stretched vSAN cluster
5. vSAN Operations
- 18 - Failure scenarios
- 19 - vSAN and high availability (HA)
- 20 - Demo - Host failures in vSAN 8
- 21 - Demo - vSAN maintenance
- 22 - Demo - vSAN disk removal
- 23 - Demo - Disable vSAN on a cluster
6. vSAN ESA
- 24 - Express storage architecture (ESA)
- 25 - Demo - Use wizard to create a vSAN cluster (ESA)
- 26 - Demo - Manually create a vSAN cluster (ESA)
Conclusion
- 27 - Next steps