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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)

Configure and Administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions

Having workloads and vCenter Servers always available to avoid service disruption is the main responsibility of every vSphere Administrator. This chapter will explain the vSphere Availability feature (formerly known as vSphere HA) and the configuration settings used in a cluster to ensure virtual machine availability in the case of an expected host failure event.

The vCenter Server is the core component of the infrastructure because it provides all the main services and features that are available in vSphere, such as vSphere Availability, DRS, vDS, and so on, and its availability must be ensured to keep the infrastructure healthy. This chapter will also cover the configuration of vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) HA, a new feature that became available in vSphere 6.5 (vCSA only) to ensure vCenter Server HA.

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