Mastering VMware vSAN 9.1

Master VMware vSAN 9.1 and Build Virtualization Infrastructure You Can Trust

Modern virtual infrastructure requires more than powerful servers. It needs reliable storage, strong protection, predictable performance, scalability, and the ability to recover when things go wrong.

Mastering VMware vSAN 9.1 provides a practical, beginner-friendly guide to designing, deploying, managing, optimizing, and troubleshooting VMware vSAN environments.
You'll learn how vSAN works with vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, HA, DRS, and vMotion, while gaining a clear understanding of Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), software-defined storage, storage policies, data placement, and cluster architecture.

The book takes you from fundamentals to real-world administration, including vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) and Original Storage Architecture (OSA), hardware and networking requirements, capacity planning, storage protection, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Understand vSAN 9.1 architecture and HCI
• Design and deploy production-ready vSAN clusters
• Work with vSAN ESA and OSA
• Plan servers, NVMe devices, networking, and capacity
• Configure Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM)
• Understand RAID-1, RAID-5, RAID-6, FTT, and failure domains
• Use ESA Auto-RAID, compression, and deduplication
• Build highly available environments with vSphere HA
• Handle host, storage-device, and network failures
• Understand resynchronization, rebuilds, maintenance, and recovery
• Design stretched clusters and site-level resilience
• Improve IOPS, latency, throughput, and workload performance
• Monitor vSAN health, capacity, performance, and devices
• Troubleshoot degraded objects, storage, networking, and performance issues
• Plan backups, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity
• Manage lifecycle operations, upgrades, and cluster expansion
• Design vSAN for enterprise, VDI, database, and mixed workloads