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Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide

By : Andrea Mauro , Paolo Valsecchi

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Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide

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By: Andrea Mauro , Paolo Valsecchi

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Overview of this book

This exam guide enables you to install, configure, and manage the vSphere 6.5 infrastructure in all its components: vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines, while helping you to prepare for the industry standard certification. This data center book will assist you in automating administration tasks and enhancing your environment’s capabilities. You will begin with an introduction to all aspects related to security, networking, and storage in vSphere 6.5. Next, you will learn about resource management and understand how to back up and restore the vSphere 6.5 infrastructure. As you advance, you will also cover troubleshooting, deployment, availability, and virtual machine management. This is followed by two mock tests that will test your knowledge and challenge your understanding of all the topics included in the exam. By the end of this book, you will not only have learned about virtualization and its techniques, but you’ll also be prepared to pass the VCP6.5-DCV (2V0-622) exam.

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Configuring and Administering vSphere 6.x Security

Objective 1.1 – Configure and administer role-based access control

Objective 1.2 – Secure ESXi and vCenter Server 2

Objective 1.3 – Configure and Enable SSO and Identity Sources

Objective 1.4 – Secure vSphere Virtual Machines

What is missing

Review questions

Summary

Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Networking

Objective 2.1 – Configure policies/features and verify vSphere networking

Objective 2.2 – Configuring Network I/O control (NIOC)

What is missing

Review questions

Summary

Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage

Objective 3.1 – Managing vSphere integration with physical storage

Objective 3.2 – Configure software-defined storage

Objective 3.3 – Configure vSphere Storage multipathing and failover

Objective 3.4 – Perform VMFS and NFS configurations and upgrades

Objective 3.5 – Set up and configure Storage I/O Control

What is missing

Review questions

Summary

Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x

Objective 4.1 – Perform ESXi Host and Virtual Machine Upgrades

Objective 4.2 – Perform vCenter Server Upgrades (Windows)

Objective 4.3 – Perform vCenter Server migration to VCSA

Review questions

Summary

Administer and Manage vSphere 6.x Resources

Objective 5.1 – Configure multilevel Resource Pools

Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere DRS and Storage DRS clusters

Review questions

Summary

Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment

Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer vCenter Appliance Backup/Restore

Objective 6.2 – Configure and administer vCenter Data Protection

Objective 6.3 – Configure vSphere Replication

Review questions

Summary

Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment

Objective 7.1 – Troubleshoot vCenter Server and ESXi hosts

Objective 7.2 – Troubleshoot vSphere storage and networking

Objective 7.3 – Troubleshooting vSphere Upgrades and Migrations

Objective 7.4 – Troubleshooting virtual machines

Objective 7.5 – Troubleshoot HA and DRS configurations and Fault Tolerance

What is missing

Review questions

Summary

Deploy and Customize ESXi Hosts

Objective 8.1 – Configure Auto Deploy for ESXi hosts

Objective 8.2 – Create and Deploy Host Profiles

Review questions

Summary

Configure and Administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions

Objective 9.1 – Configure vSphere HA cluster features

Objective 9.2 – Configure vCSA HA

Review questions

Summary

Administer and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines

Create and manage vSphere Virtual Machines and templates

Create and manage a content library

Consolidate physical workloads using VMware vCenter Converter

Review questions

Summary

Mock Exam 1

Mock exam 1

Summary

Mock Exam 2

Mock exam 2

Checking your answers

Summary

Understanding VMware Certification Paths

Certification paths

Certification life cycle

Some demographics data

Most required certifications

Certification versus accreditation or awards

Summary

VCP6.5-DCV Certification

Certification paths

Summary

Before, During, and After the Exam

Before the exam

During the exam

After the exam

Summary

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Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage

Storage is usually the most critical part of a virtual infrastructure, due to the need for enough performance and capacity for the entire cluster and all the workloads inside it. In order to provide features such as vSphere high availability (HA), vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and other cluster-related capabilities, you need common shared storage for all the ESXi hosts of the cluster. You can also have more storage per cluster, or use the same storage for more clusters.

Practicing what you learn during this chapter is a key point for enforcing your skills and preparation for the exam. Different labs can help you, such as the HOL-1808-01-HCI (vSAN v6.6.1 - Getting started) for vSAN, and HOL-1827-01-HCI (VMware Storage - Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management) for vVols and SPBM.

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