VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

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Course Syllabus:

• VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) Syllabus
• Architectures and Technologies
• - Identify the pre-requisites and components for a vSphere implementation
• - Describe vCenter Server topology
• - Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)
• Describe storage datastore types for vSphere
• Explain the importance of advanced storage configuration (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA), vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI), etc.)
• Describe storage policies
• Describe basic storage concepts in K8s, vSAN and vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
• - Differentiate between vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) and vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
• - Describe instant clone architecture and use cases
• - Describe ESXi cluster concepts
• Describe Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Describe vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
• Describe how Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) scores virtual machines
• Describe vSphere High Availability
• Describe datastore clusters
• - Identify vSphere distributed switch and vSphere standard switch capabilities
• Describe VMkernel networking
• Manage networking on multiple hosts with vSphere distributed switch
• Describe networking policies
• Manage Network I/O Control (NIOC) on a vSphere distributed switch
• - Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts (baselines, cluster images, etc.)
• - Describe the basics of vSAN as primary storage
• Identify basic vSAN requirements(networking, disk count + type)
• - Describe the vSphere Trust Authority architecture
• - Explain Software Guard Extensions (SGX)
• VMware Products and Solutions
• - Describe the role of vSphere in the software-defined data center (SDDC)
• - Identify use cases for vCloud Foundation
• - Identify migration options
• - Identify DR use cases
• - Describe vSphere integration with VMware Skyline
• Planning and Designing
• Installing, Configuring, and Setup
• - Describe single sign-on (SSO) deployment topology
• Configure a single sign-on (SSO) domain
• Join an existing single sign-on (SSO) domain
• - Configure VSS advanced virtual networking options
• - Set up identity sources
• Configure Identity Federation
• Configure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration
• Configure Active Directory integration
• - Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• - Create and configure VMware High Availability and advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive High Availability, etc.)
• - Deploy and configure vCenter Server High Availability
• - Set up content library
• - Configure vCenter Server file-based backup
• - Analyze basic log output from vSphere products
• - Configure vSphere Trust Authority
• - Configure vSphere certificates
• Describe Enterprise PKIs role for SSL certificates
• - Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager/VMware Update Manager (VUM)
• - Securely Boot ESXi hosts
• - Configure different network stacks
• - Configure Host Profiles
• - Identify boot options
• Configure Quick Boot
• Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades
• - Identify resource pools use cases
• Explain shares, limits and reservations (resource management)
• - Monitor resources of vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere environment
• - Identify and use tools for performance monitoring
• - Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)
• - Configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
• - Explain the performance impact of maintaining virtual machine snapshots
• - Plan for upgrading various vSphere components
• Troubleshooting and Repairing
• Administrative and Operational Tasks
• - Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• - Create virtual machines using different methods (Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) templates, content library, etc.)
• - Manage virtual machines
• - Manage storage (datastores, storage policies, etc.)
• Configure and modify datastores (expand/upgrade existing datastore, etc.)
• Create virtual machine storage policies
• Configure storage cluster options
• - Create Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
• - Configure and perform different types of migrations
• - Configure role-based user management
• - Configure and manage the options for securing a vSphere environment (certificates, virtual machine encryption, virtual Trusted Platform Module, lock-down mode, virtualization-based security, etc.)
• - Configure and manage host profiles
• - Utilize baselines to perform updates and upgrades
• - Utilize vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Describe Firmware upgrades for ESXi
• Describe ESXi updates
• Describe component and driver updates for ESXi
• Describe hardware compatibility check
• Describe ESXi cluster image export functionality
• - Configure alarms