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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)

Objective 6.2 – Configure and administer vCenter Data Protection

vCenter Data Protection is a pre-built, Linux-based virtual appliance provided by VMware to protect virtual machines configured in your vSphere environment, and requires vCenter Server in Windows or Linux versions. Managed through vSphere Web Client, the appliance is deployed with hardware version 7 and can be stored on VMFS, NFS, and vSAN datastores. Since the communication between vSphere Data Protection (VDP) appliance and ESXi host uses port 902, if there is a firewall in between, port 902 must be open.

You can deploy up to 20 VDP appliances per vCenter Server and, by default, each appliance is deployed with four virtual CPUs and 4 GB of memory with a data capacity you can configure from 0.5 TB up to 8 TB (available storage sizes are 0.5 TB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB, and 8 TB) depending on the number of virtual...