VMware Certified HCI Specialist

Course Overview

The VMware Certified HCI Specialist training is designed for professionals who want to develop deep expertise in deploying and managing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) using VMware vSAN, integrated with vSphere.

This course provides practical, hands-on experience in planning, configuring, operating, and optimizing vSAN clusters for scalable storage, high availability, and performance. It is ideal for professionals working with modern data centers and hybrid cloud platforms. The training also helps learners prepare for the VMware HCI Specialist certification exam, validating their ability to deliver and support resilient HCI environments.

Why Choose This Course

  • Learn to implement software-defined storage with VMware vSAN

  • Understand the core components of hyperconverged infrastructure and vSAN architecture

  • Build skills in performance tuning, storage policy management, and data services

  • Get certified in a high-demand area as HCI adoption accelerates globally

  • Gain practical experience with day-2 operations, capacity planning, and resilience design

Who Should Enroll

  • VMware vSphere administrators and architects

  • Storage and infrastructure engineers

  • Data center operations professionals

  • Consultants deploying software-defined storage and HCI solutions

  • Professionals seeking the HCI Specialist certification to enhance their VMware credentials

Skills You Will Gain

  • Planning and deploying vSAN clusters in hybrid or all-flash configurations

  • Configuring disk groups, fault domains, and deduplication/compression

  • Managing vSAN storage policies, space efficiency, and availability controls

  • Integrating vSAN with VMware vSphere, vCenter, and DRS/HA

  • Performing capacity planning, health monitoring, and troubleshooting

  • Understanding data encryption, stretch clusters, and disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Career Opportunities

  • HCI Specialist / Consultant

  • VMware vSAN Administrator

  • Virtual Infrastructure Engineer

  • Cloud Storage Architect

  • Data Center Modernization Consultant

Organizations across enterprise IT, telecom, BFSI, cloud hosting, and managed services rely on hyperconverged platforms for simplified management and agility—creating high demand for VMware HCI-certified professionals.

Modernize Storage and Compute with Confidence

The VMware Certified HCI Specialist credential empowers you to simplify infrastructure, enhance performance, and reduce cost by delivering resilient, scalable hyperconverged solutions with VMware vSAN.

Enroll in VMware HCI Specialist Training at Linux Training Center, Coimbatore

VMware Certified HCI Specialist Syllabus

Modules

Architecture and Technologies
VMware Products and Solutions

- Given a scenario, identify the VMware products and solutions that will interact with a vSAN Solution
- Given a scenario, identify the VMware products and solutions that will consume a vSAN solution.

Planning and Designing

- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate vSAN cluster design.
- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate vSAN services design.
- Use vSAN design and sizing tools (sizing Cache tier for workload; no of nodes; VM sizing; Live Optics; HCI Bench etc.)
- Given a scenario, identify the implications of integrating VMware solutions with vSAN.
- Given a scenario, identify how to plan and size a vSAN implementation.
- Given a scenario, identify the use cases for an HCI Mesh infrastructure.

Installing, Configuring, and Setup
Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades

- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate vSAN upgrade methodology.
- Given a scenariq identify how to apply the appropriate maintenance mode option.
- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate method for managing disks and disk groups.

Troubleshooting and Repairing

- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate action to recover from a vSAN or infrastructure failure.
- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate action to troubleshoot performance issues h a vSAN deployment.
- Given a scenario, identify the steps to troubleshoot a stretched vSAN cluster.
- Evaluate performance information in the UI and using vsantop

Administrative and Operational Task

- Identify vSAN data placement changes (stretched clusters, fault domains)
- Identify the operational tasks required to manage an encrypted vSAN.
- Given a scenario, identify the impact of making changes to a storage policy.
- Given a scenario, identify the tasks to manage a stretched vSAN cluster.

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