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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

By: Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi

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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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
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1
Configuring and Administering vSphere 6.x Security
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
2
Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Networking
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
3
Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage
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
4
Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x
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
5
Administer and Manage vSphere 6.x Resources
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
6
Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment
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
7
Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment
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
8
Deploy and Customize ESXi Hosts
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
9
Configure and Administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions
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
10
Administer and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines
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
11
Mock Exam 1
Mock Exam 1
Mock exam 1
Summary
12
Mock Exam 2
Mock Exam 2
Mock exam 2
Checking your answers
Summary
13
Understanding VMware Certification Paths
Understanding VMware Certification Paths
Certification paths
Certification life cycle
Some demographics data
Most required certifications
Certification versus accreditation or awards
Summary
14
VCP6.5-DCV Certification
VCP6.5-DCV Certification
Certification paths
Summary
15
Before, During, and After the Exam
Before, During, and After the Exam
Before the exam
During the exam
After the exam
Summary
16
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What is missing

The official VCP65-DCV Exam Preparation Guide covers a lot of security topics, but the vSphere 6.5 Troubleshooting guide is definitely more rich, with more content.

For example, there are several missing parts, such as some possible examples of wrong VMs configuration, not related to the allocated resources, but related to specific VMware functions (for example, device passthrough).

Also, some common issues are totally ignored, like the way you recover Orphaned Virtual Machines (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.troubleshooting.doc/GUID-BFD8C9BC-30FB-4A92-AFEC-2FC9FF387920.html).

The VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop course is recommended so that you can learn more about these specific tasks.

For the VCP-DCV exam, you just need basic knowledge. Deeper knowledge will be useful for the VCAP exams that are related to the DCV path...
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