▶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
▶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
▶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.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Everything outlined in the official VMware Certified Professional 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization Exam Preparation Guide, as well as what you will need to know for the VCP6.5-DCV certification exam, is covered in this book. The book is composed of 10 chapters, which cover the following topics.
⦁ Chapter 1, Configuring and Administering vSphere 6.x Security, looks at the various aspects to consider when securing the vSphere environment, such as roles, permissions, encryption, authentication, and patching.
⦁ Chapter 2, Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Networking, is completely dedicated to vSphere networking. It explains standard and distributed virtual switches and covers the design, management, and optimization of the virtual network.
⦁ Chapter 3, Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage, is focused on vSphere storage, covering the different connectivity options and protocols, such as NFS, FC, FCoE, and iSCSI. Datastore options and use cases are also discussed.
⦁ Chapter 4, Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x, covers the upgrade and migration procedures of vSphere from version 5.5 and 6.0 to version 6.5.
⦁ Chapter 5, Administer and Manage vSphere 6.x Resources, explains resource pool management and DRS configuration, describing the use of affinity and anti-affinity rules. It also discusses the new network DRS capability used to prevent migration recommendations to saturated host networks.
⦁ Chapter 6, Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment, covers the backing up and restoration of the vCenter Server Appliance, as well as the backing up, recovery, and replication of virtual machines using vSphere Protection Data and vSphere Replication.
⦁ Chapter 7, Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment, walks through the troubleshooting part of a virtual environment, providing a short overview of some topics and possible use cases.
⦁ Chapter 8, Deploy and Customize ESXi Hosts, covers the management and the configuration of the vSphere Auto Deploy and Host Profile features for optimizing and automating the ESXi host's deployment.
⦁ Chapter 9, Configure and Administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions, goes into the configuration settings for vSphere HA and the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) HA setup.
⦁ Chapter 10, Administer and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines, covers some advanced features available for virtual machines, the configuration and use of content libraries, and the consolidation process using the vSphere vCenter Converter tool.
