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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)

Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment

In each design, the protection of infrastructure is important to ensure all services are available with, but a working strategy to quickly recover vSphere components is needed in case of failure.

If the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) installed in your virtual infrastructure fails, advanced features available in vSphere can't be used without vCenter Server. You won't be able to provide services such as vMotion, DRS, HA, FT, and Update Manager, just to mention a few.

This chapter will walk through the configuration and management of some solutions, such as VMware Data Protection and vSphere Replication, to limit service disruption and enable failed components to be quickly restored.

To practice the installation processes and different configuration steps covered, download the products described and install them in your lab to have...