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Introduction
During this four-day 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. You will learn these skills through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
Audience profile
Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 8.
Pre-requisites
Before taking this course, you must complete the following course:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge
Course objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe vSAN concepts
- Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
- Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
- Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
- Explain the importance vSAN node hardware compatibility
- Describe the different vSAN deployment options
- Explain how to configure vSAN fault domains
- Detail how to define and create a VM storage policy
- Discuss the impact of vSAN storage policy changes
- Detail vSAN resilience and data availability
- Describe vSAN storage space efficiency
- Explain how vSAN encryption works
- Detail VMware HCI Mesh™ technology and architecture
- Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
- Describe how to setup a stretched and a two-node vSAN cluster
- Describe vSAN maintenance mode and data evacuation options
- Define the steps to shut down a vSAN cluster for maintenance
- Explain how to use proactive tests to check the integrity of a vSAN cluster
- Use VMware Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN health
- Use VMware Skyline Health to investigate and help determine failure conditions
- Discuss vSAN troubleshooting best practices
Associated certifications and exam
The 5V0-22.23 exam tests candidate skills and abilities designing, implementing, and administering a VMware vSAN environment.
The VMware vSAN Specialist v2 Exam (5V0-22.23), which leads to the VMware Certified Specialist – vSAN specialist certification, is a 76-item exam with a passing score of 300 using a scaled method. Exam time is 125 minutes.
Associated Certification:
VMware Specialist – vSAN 2024 [v2]
The VMware Specialist – vSAN 2024 [v2] certification validates an earner’s understanding of vSphere and vSAN concepts and requirements. It also demonstrates proper vSAN design principles and best practices knowledge as well as working knowledge of storage, security and networking concepts and storage data services. The certification holder is able to install and configure vSAN. They are also capable of managing and monitoring a vSAN and performing basic troubleshooting and problem resolution.
Exam Delivery:
This is a proctored exam delivered through Pearson VUE.

VMware Overview
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