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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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Create and manage a content library

A content library is a feature available in vSphere 6.5 that acts as a container for objects so that you can store VM templates, vApp templates, ISOs, and files you need to share across multiple vCenter Server instances belonging to the same SSO domain. Content libraries can be used to ensure compliance and consistency within the network when deploying workloads.

A content library can be useful for the deployment of new virtual machines from a stored template or so that you can mount an ISO image directly from the library.

VM templates, vApp templates, and other types of file in a content library are defined as library items that can contain single or multiple files, such as OVF, ISO, and so on.

Two types of content library object can be created in vSphere 6.5:

  • Local: Items are stored on a single vCenter Server instance and can be published...