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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 9.1 – Configure vSphere HA cluster features

vSphere HA is a feature that's available in vSphere and is applied to a pool of monitored ESXi hosts. It allows you, in the case of host failure, to restart the virtual machines that are detected as down on another host within the cluster.

Modify vSphere HA cluster settings

vSphere HA's responses to failure conditions on a cluster can be customized depending on your business requirements. In order to configure failures and responses, you must edit the cluster and enable the Enable Host Monitoring option, like so:

Figure 9.1: Configuration of the vSphere Availability parameters for the cluster

Here, you can configure the following parameters:

  • Host Failure...