Book description
Deploy and configure vSphere infrastructure and learn to effectively create and administer vSphere virtual machines
Key Features
- Implement advanced network virtualization techniques
- Configure and administer vSphere high availability
- Enhance your data center virtualization skills with practice questions and mock tests
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- Deploy and configure vSphere infrastructure
- Create and administer vSphere virtual machines
- Optimize, secure, and troubleshoot all vSphere components
- Implement vSphere HA on a vSAN cluster
- Understand how to back up and restore your vSphere 6.5 infrastructure
- Test your understanding of key concepts required through sample questions
Who this book is for
If you are interested in achieving Data Center Virtualization certification, this is the book is for you. You will also benefit from this book if you are a system administrator or network engineer. Some prior knowledge of virtualization can assist you in understanding key concepts covered in the book.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
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Configuring and Administering vSphere 6.x Security
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Objective 1.1 – Configure and administer role-based access control
- Compare and contrast propagated and explicit permission assignments
- View/sort/export user and group lists
- Add/modify/remove permissions for users and groups on vCenter Server inventory objects
- Determine how permissions are applied and inherited in vCenter Server
- Create/clone/edit vCenter Server Roles
- Configure VMware Identity Sources
- Apply a role to a user/group and to an object or group of objects
- Change permission validation settings
- Determine the appropriate set of privileges for common tasks in vCenter Server
- Compare and contrast default system/sample roles
- Determine the correct permissions needed to integrate vCenter Server with other VMware products
- Objective 1.2 – Secure ESXi and vCenter Server 2
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Objective 1.3 – Configure and Enable SSO and Identity Sources
- Describe PSC architecture and components
- Differentiate available authentication methods with VMware vCenter
- Perform a multi-site PSC installation
- Configure/manage identity sources
- Configure/manage platform services controller (PSC)
- Configure/manage VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
- Enable/disable SSO users
- Upgrade a single/complex PSC installation
- Configure SSO policies
- Add an ESXi host to an AD domain
- Configure and manage KMS for VM encryption
- Objective 1.4 – Secure vSphere Virtual Machines
- What is missing
- Review questions
- Summary
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Objective 1.1 – Configure and administer role-based access control
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Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Networking
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Objective 2.1 – Configure policies/features and verify vSphere networking
- Creating/deleting a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Adding/removing ESXi hosts from a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Adding/configuring/removing dvPort groups
- Adding/removing uplink adapters to dvUplink groups
- Configuring vSphere Distributed Switch general and dvPort group settings
- Creating/configuring/removing virtual adapters
- Migrating virtual machines to/from a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Configuring LACP on vDS given design parameters
- Describing vDS Security policies/settings
- Configuring dvPort group blocking policies
- Configuring load balancing and failover policies
- Configuring VLAN/PVLAN settings for VMs given communication requirements
- Configuring traffic shaping policies
- Enabling TCP Segmentation Offload support for a virtual machine
- Enabling jumbo frames support on appropriate components
- Recognizing the behavior of vDS auto-rollback
- Configuring vDS across multiple vCenters to support Long Distance vMotion
- Comparing and contrasting vSphere Distributed Switch capabilities
- Configuring multiple VMkernel Default Gateways
- Configuring ERSPAN
- Creating and configure custom TCP/IP Stacks
- Configuring Netflow
- Objective 2.2 – Configuring Network I/O control (NIOC)
- What is missing
- Review questions
- Summary
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Objective 2.1 – Configure policies/features and verify vSphere networking
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Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage
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Objective 3.1 – Managing vSphere integration with physical storage
- Performing NFS v3 and v4.1 configurations
- Discovering new storage LUNs
- Configuring FC/iSCSI/FCoE LUNs as ESXi boot devices
- Mounting an NFS share for use with vSphere
- Enabling/configuring/disabling vCenter Server storage filters
- Configuring/editing hardware/dependent hardware initiators
- Enabling/disabling software iSCSI initiator
- Configuring/editing software iSCSI initiator settings
- Configuring iSCSI port binding
- Enabling/configuring/disabling iSCSI CHAP
- Determining use cases for Fiber Channel zoning
- Comparing and contrasting array thin provisioning and virtual disk thin provisioning
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Objective 3.2 – Configure software-defined storage
- Creating vSAN cluster
- Creating disk groups
- Monitoring vSAN
- Describing vVOLs
- Understanding a vSAN iSCSI target
- Explaining vSAN and vVOL architectural components
- Determining the role of storage providers in vSAN
- Determining the role of storage providers in vVOLs
- Explaining vSAN failure domains functionality
- Configuring/managing VMware vSAN
- Creating/modifying VMware Virtual Volumes
- Configuring storage policies
- Enabling/disabling vSAN Fault Domains
- Creating Virtual Volumes given the workload and availability requirements
- Collecting vSAN Observer output
- Creating storage policies appropriate for given workloads and availability requirements
- Configuring vVOLs Protocol Endpoints
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Objective 3.3 – Configure vSphere Storage multipathing and failover
- Explaining common multi-pathing components
- Differentiating APD and PDL states
- Comparing and contrasting active optimized versus active non-optimized port group states
- Explaining features of Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
- Understanding the effects of a given claim rule on multipathing and failover
- Explaining the function of claim rule elements
- Changing the path selection policy using the UI
- Determining required claim rule elements to change the default PSP
- Determining the effect of changing PSP on multipathing and failover
- Determining the effects of changing SATP on relevant device behavior
- Configuring/managing storage load balancing
- Differentiating available storage load balancing options
- Differentiating available storage multipathing policies
- Configuring storage policies including vSphere storage APIs for storage awareness
- Locating failover events in the UI
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Objective 3.4 – Perform VMFS and NFS configurations and upgrades
- Performing VMFS v5 and v6 configurations
- Describing VAAI primitives for block devices and NAS
- Differentiating VMware filesystem technologies
- Migrating from VMFS5 to VMFS6
- Differentiating physical mode RDMs and virtual mode RDMs
- Creating a virtual/physical mode RDM
- Differentiating NFS 3.x and 4.1 capabilities
- Comparing and contrasting VMFS and NFS datastore properties
- Configuring Bus Sharing
- Configuring multi-writer locking
- Connecting an NFS 4.1 datastore using Kerberos
- Creating/renaming/deleting/unmounting VMFS datastores
- Mounting/unmounting an NFS datastore
- Extending/expanding VMFS datastores
- Placing a VMFS datastore in maintenance mode
- Selecting the preferred path/disabling a path to a VMFS datastore
- Enabling/disabling vStorage API for array integration (VAAI)
- Determining a proper use case for multiple VMFS/NFS datastores
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Objective 3.5 – Set up and configure Storage I/O Control
- Describing the benefits of SIOC
- Enabling and configuring SIOC
- Configuring/managing SIOC
- Monitoring SIOC
- Differentiating between SIOC and dynamic queue depth throttling features
- Determining a proper use case for SIOC
- Comparing and contrasting the effects of I/O contention in environments with and without SIOC
- Understanding SIOC metrics for datastore clusters and Storage DRS
- What is missing
- Review questions
- Summary
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Objective 3.1 – Managing vSphere integration with physical storage
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Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x
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Objective 4.1 – Perform ESXi Host and Virtual Machine Upgrades
- Updating manager
- Configuring download source(s)
- Setting up UMDS to set up download repository
- Importing ESXi images
- Creating baselines and/or baseline groups
- Attaching baselines to vSphere objects
- Scanning vSphere
- Staging patches and extensions
- Remediating an object
- Upgrading a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Upgrading VMware Tools
- Upgrading virtual machine hardware
- Upgrading an ESXI host by using vCenter Update Manager
- Staging multiple ESXI host upgrades
- Aligning appropriate baselines with target inventory objects
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Objective 4.2 – Perform vCenter Server Upgrades (Windows)
- Comparing the methods of upgrading vCenter Server
- Backup vCenter Server database, configuration and certificate datastore
- Performing updates as prescribed
- Upgrading vCenter Server
- Determining the upgrade compatibility of an environment
- Determining correct order of steps to upgrade a vSphere implementation
- Objective 4.3 – Perform vCenter Server migration to VCSA
- Review questions
- Summary
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Objective 4.1 – Perform ESXi Host and Virtual Machine Upgrades
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Administer and Manage vSphere 6.x Resources
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Objective 5.1 – Configure multilevel Resource Pools
- Determining the effect of the expandable reservation parameter on resource allocation
- Creating a Resource Pool hierarchical structure
- Configuring custom Resource Pool attributes
- Determining how Resource Pools apply to vApps
- Creating/removing a Resource Pool
- Adding/removing VMs from a Resource Pool
- Determining appropriate shares, reservations, and limits for hierarchical Resource Pools
- Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere DRS and Storage DRS clusters
- Review questions
- Summary
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Objective 5.1 – Configure multilevel Resource Pools
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Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment
- Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer vCenter Appliance Backup/Restore
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Objective 6.2 – Configure and administer vCenter Data Protection
- Deploying VDP application agents
- Differentiating VMware Data Protection's capabilities
- Explaining VMware data protection sizing guidelines
- Creating/deleting/consolidating virtual machine snapshots
- Installing and configuring VMware Data Protection
- Creating a backup job with VMware Data Protection
- Backing up/restoring a virtual machine with VMware Data Protection
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Objective 6.3 – Configure vSphere Replication
- Comparing and contrasting vSphere Replication compression methods
- Configuring a recovery point objective (RPO) for a protected virtual machine
- Managing snapshots on recovered virtual machines
- Installing/configuring/upgrading vSphere Replication
- Replication Configure VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) integration with vSphere
- Configuring vSphere Replication for single/multiple VMs
- Recovering a VM using vSphere Replication
- Performing a failback operation using vSphere Replication
- Deploying a pair of vSphere Replication virtual appliances
- Review questions
- Summary
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Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment
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Objective 7.1 – Troubleshoot vCenter Server and ESXi hosts
- Understanding the VCSA monitoring tool
- Monitoring status of the vCenter Server services
- Performing basic maintenance of a vCenter Server database
- Monitoring status of ESXi management agents
- Determining ESXi host stability issues and gather diagnostics information
- Monitoring ESXi system health
- Locating and analyze the vCenter Server and ESXi logs
- Determining appropriate commands for troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting common ESXi/vCenter issues
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Objective 7.2 – Troubleshoot vSphere storage and networking
- Identifying and isolating network and storage resource contention and latency issues
- Verifyinging network and storage configuration
- Verifying that a given virtual machine is configured with the correct network resources
- Monitoring/troubleshooting Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) issues
- Recognizing the impact of network and storage I/O control configurations
- Recognizing a connectivity issue caused by a VLAN/PVLAN
- Troubleshooting common storage and networking issues
- Objective 7.3 – Troubleshooting vSphere Upgrades and Migrations
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Objective 7.4 – Troubleshooting virtual machines
- Monitoring CPU and memory usage
- Identifying and isolate CPU and memory contention issues
- Recognizing the impact of using CPU/memory limits, reservations, and shares
- Describing and differentiate critical performance metrics
- Describing and differentiate common metrics
- Monitoring performance through esxtop
- Troubleshooting Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) issues
- Comparing and contrast the Overview and Advanced Charts
- Objective 7.5 – Troubleshoot HA and DRS configurations and Fault Tolerance
- What is missing
- Review questions
- Summary
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Objective 7.1 – Troubleshoot vCenter Server and ESXi hosts
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Deploy and Customize ESXi Hosts
- Objective 8.1 – Configure Auto Deploy for ESXi hosts
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Objective 8.2 – Create and Deploy Host Profiles
- Editing answer file to customize ESXi host settings
- Modifying and applying a storage path selection plugin (PSP) to a device using host profiles
- Modifying and applying switch configurations across multiple hosts using a host profile
- Creating/editing/removing a host profile from an ESXi host
- Importing/exporting a Host Profile
- Attaching and apply a Host Profiles to ESXi hosts in a cluster
- Performing compliance scanning and remediation of ESXi hosts and clusters using Host Profiles
- Enabling or disabling Host Profiles components
- Review questions
- Summary
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Configure and Administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions
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Objective 9.1 – Configure vSphere HA cluster features
- Modify vSphere HA cluster settings
- Configure a network for use with HA heartbeats
- Apply an admission control policy for HA
- Enable/disable vSphere HA settings
- Configure different heartbeat datastores for a HA cluster
- Apply virtual machine monitoring for a cluster
- Configure Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP) settings
- Implement vSphere HA on a vSAN cluster
- Explain how vSphere HA communicates with distributed resource scheduler and distributed power management
- Objective 9.2 – Configure vCSA HA
- Review questions
- Summary
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Objective 9.1 – Configure vSphere HA cluster features
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Administer and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines
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Create and manage vSphere Virtual Machines and templates
- Determine how using a shared USB device impacts the environment 
- Configure virtual machines for vGPUs, DirectPath I/O and SR-IOV
- Configure virtual machines for multicore vCPUs
- Differentiate virtual machine configuration settings
- Interpret virtual machine configuration file (.vmx) settings
- Enable/disable advanced virtual machine settings
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Create and manage a content library
- Publish a content catalog
- Subscribe to a published catalog
- Determine which privileges are required to globally manage a content catalog
- Compare the functionality of automatic sync and an on-demand sync
- Configure content library to work across sites
- Configure content library authentication
- Set/configure content library roles
- Add/remove content libraries
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Consolidate physical workloads using VMware vCenter Converter
- Install vCenter Converter standalone instance
- Convert physical workloads using vCenter Converter
- Modify server resources during conversion
- Interpret and correct errors during conversion
- Deploy a physical host as a virtual machine using vCenter Converter
- Collect diagnostic information during the conversion operation
- Resize partitions during the conversion process
- Determine which virtual disk format to use
- Review questions
- Summary
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Create and manage vSphere Virtual Machines and templates
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Mock Exam 1
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Mock exam 1
- Configure and administer vSphere 6.x security
- Configure and administer vSphere 6.x networking
- Configure and administer vSphere 6.x storage
- Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x
- Administer and manage vSphere 6.x Resources
- Backup and recover a vSphere Deployment
- Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment
- Deploy and customize ESXi Hosts
- Configure and administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions
- Administer and manage vSphere Virtual Machines
- Summary
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Mock exam 1
- Mock Exam 2
- Understanding VMware Certification Paths
- VCP6.5-DCV Certification
- Before, During, and After the Exam
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2018
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789340471
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