This chapter will brief you on virtual storage area network (vSAN) design recommendations, as well as all of the monitoring options through which your customers can assess, recommend, and design their environment. This will help them achieve different business objectives by automating their operations with smart policies.

We will learn to configure policy-based operations as per ML algorithms and we'll learn how the end user experience is improved by the proactive resolving of customer issues. We'll also learn to optimize a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to achieve customer business objectives.

 The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Application scalability on vSAN
• Intelligent monitoring
• High availability (HA) configuration in stretched clusters
• vSAN policy design with Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM)