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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Free Chapter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mock Exam 1

Mock Exam 2

Checking your answers

Understanding VMware Certification Paths

Understanding VMware Certification Paths

Certification paths

Certification life cycle

Some demographics data

Most required certifications

Certification versus accreditation or awards

VCP6.5-DCV Certification

VCP6.5-DCV Certification

Certification paths

Before, During, and After the Exam

Before, During, and After the Exam

Before the exam

During the exam

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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 Storage guide is definitely more rich, with more content.

For example, the following aspects are not considered in the preparation guide:

N-Port ID Virtualization (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-E05D5E0A-89A3-4948-8F61-F86A84128446.html)
Configuring Fibre Channel over Ethernet (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-A9503ED6-2622-4278-890E-B869C3971A9F.html)
Best Practices for Fibre Channel Storage (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-0C1B4D0A-F993-4F8A-8255-EE156A85C904.html)
Setting LUN Allocations for iSCSI (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-62902F8C-0D28-46E3-AFFA-5E52C49B15A4...