VMware vSphere 8 Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) (2V0-21.23) Cert Prep

13h 20mIntermediate2024-03-28

Authors

Rick Crisci

Technical Trainer and Information Technology Professional

Course details

The VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification measures a network professional's knowledge and skills with VMware vSphere solutions, including virtual machines, networking, and storage. Job roles associated with this certification include virtualization administrators, system engineers, and consultants.

In this course, technical trainer and information technology professional Rick Crisci covers the topics addressed in the exam's Body of Knowledge. Learn about networking, storage, and monitoring tools. Find out how to secure a vSphere deployment. Explore updates and upgrades, as well as how to deploy VMs and hosts. Dive into resource management and the distributed resource scheduler (DRS). Go over your options for troubleshooting, backup, and recovery. Plus, discover best practices for handling high availability and learn about advanced vSphere management.

Skills covered

Data CentersvSphereVMwareVirtualizationDatabase ManagementCert PrepNetwork and System Administration

Concepts

1. Networking

01 - Virtual networking concepts
02 - Standard Switch failure detection
03 - vSphere Standard Switch NIC teaming
04 - vSphere Distributed Switch concepts
05 - vSphere Standard Switch resources
06 - Create a vSphere Distributed Switch
07 - CDP and LLDP
08 - vSphere Distributed Switch settings
09 - Private VLANs (PVLAN)
10 - Configure private VLANs in vSphere
11 - Configure distributed port groups
12 - Distributed Switch Security policies
13 - Foundation Review - Distributed Switch NIC teaming
14 - Configure vDS NIC teaming and failover
15 - Foundation review - Traffic review
16 - Configure traffic shaping in vSphere
17 - Migrate VMs to a vSphere Distributed Switch
18 - Verify network configuration in vSphere
19 - Network I O Control (NIOC)
20 - Configure NIOC in vSphere
21 - Filtering and tagging
22 - Foundation review - Netflow
23 - Configure netflow
24 - Foundation review - Port mirroring
25 - Configure Port mirroring in vSphere
26 - Network health check
27 - vSphere Distributed Switch health check
28 - Virtual Switch features - Host level rollback
29 - Virtual Switch features - Distributed Switch rollback

2. Storage

30 - vSphere Storage performance overview
31 - VMFS and NFS datastores
32 - Foundation Review - NFS v3 and NFS v4.1
33 - Demo - Create an NFS datastore in vSphere
34 - Foundation review - iSCSI storage
35 - Demo - Connect an ESXI host to an iSCSI storage array
36 - Demo - Create a VMFS datastore using iSCSI
37 - Demo - Storage port bindings and multipathing policies
38 - Demo - Expand a VMFS datastore
39 - Introduction to Storage DRS (SDRS)
40 - Demo - Create a Storage DRS (SDRS) cluster in vSphere
41 - vSAN vs. Traditional storage arrays
42 - Introduction to vSAN
43 - vSAN disk groups
44 - vSAN Express Storage Architecture
45 - Demo - vSAN network configuration
46 - Demo - Create a vSAN cluster
47 - Demo - Storage I O Control (SIOC) for vSphere

3. Monitoring Tools

48 - The vSphere CPU scheduler
49 - ESXi and hyperthreading
50 - CPU Coscheduling and VM Rightsizing
51 - vSphere Resource Management
52 - Memory virtualization
53 - Demo - Performance charts
54 - ESXTOP
55 - Demo - ESXTOP

4. Securing a vSphere Deployment

56 - vSphere Single Sign-On (SSO)
57 - Demo - vSphere Single Sign-On (SSO)
58 - vCenter Identity Provider Federation
59 - Demo - vSphere roles and permissions
60 - Demo - VM encryption
61 - Demo - Secure boot and Encrypted vMotion
62 - Demo - ESXi host firewall and services
63 - Demo - Configure lockdown mode

5. Updates and Upgrades

64 - vCenter multi-homing
65 - vSphere lifecycle management
66 - vSphere upgrade planning
67 - Demo - vCenter and vSphere license keys
68 - Demo - Install VMware tools on a VM
69 - Demo - Update VMware tools
70 - Demo - Update VM virtual hardware
71 - Upgrading ESXi 7 to ESXi 8
72 - Demo - Interactive upgrade to ESXi 8
73 - Demo - Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance

6. Deploying VMs and Hosts

74 - Demo - Register and unregister a VM
75 - Demo - Working with VMX files
76 - Demo - VM advanced settings
77 - Deploying VMs using vCenter Converter
78 - Assignable hardware
79 - Using Auto Deploy to image ESXi hosts

7. Resource Management

80 - Configure VM reservations and limits
81 - Configure shares
82 - Configure Hot plug and memory hot add for VMs
83 - Resource pools and vApps
84 - Scalable shares
85 - Create resource pools
86 - Expandable reservations
87 - Configure vApps for multitier applications

8. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

88 - DRS enhancements in vSphere 7
89 - Configure DRS
90 - vCLS VMs
91 - DRS VM distribution and CPU overcommitment
92 - DRS Distributed Power Management (DPM)
93 - Monitor a DRS cluster
94 - DRS affinity rules, groups, and VM overrides
95 - Avoiding downtime with DRS and maintenance mode in vSphere 7
96 - vSphere Cluster QuickStart