Data center virtualization certification : VCP6. 5-DCV exam guide : everything you need to achieve 2V0-622 certification - with exam tips and exercises / Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mauro, Andrea, author.

Valsecchi, Paolo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware.

Virtual computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (584 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Configuring and Administering vSphere 6.x Security

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

Configure encrypted vMotion

Describe ESXi Secure Boot

Harden ESXi hosts

Enable/configure/disable services in the ESXi firewall

Change ESXi default account access

Add an ESXi Host to a directory service

Apply permissions to ESXi Hosts using Host Profiles

Control access to hosts (DCUI/Shell/SSH/MOB)

Harden vCenter Server

Control datastore browser access

Create/Manage vCenter Server Security Certificates

Control MOB access

Change vCenter default account access

Restrict administrative privileges

Understand the implications of securing a vSphere environment

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

Enable/disable VM encryption

Describe VM Secure Boot

Harden virtual machine access

Control VMware Tools installation

Control VM data access

Configure virtual machine security policies

Harden a virtual machine against DoS attacks

Control VM-VM communications

Control VM device connections

Configure network security policies

Configure VM encrypted vMotion

What is missing

Review questions

Summary

Chapter 2: Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Networking

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)

Explaining NIOC capabilities

Configuring NIOC shares/limits based on VM requirements

Explaining the behavior of a given NIOC setting

Determining Network I/O Control requirements

Differentiating Network I/O Control capabilities

Enabling/Disable Network I/O Control

Monitoring Network I/O Control

Chapter 3: Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage

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

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

vSAN architecture

vVOL architecture

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

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

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

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

Chapter 4: Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x

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

Objective 4.2 - Perform vCenter Server Upgrades (Windows)

Comparing the methods of upgrading vCenter Server.

Upgrading vCenter Server 5.5 on Windows.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789342901

1789342902

OCLC:

1051771126