Tijdens de ICT-cursus VMware Certified Professional 6 – 2V0-621 Data Center Virtualization worden de volgende onderdelen behandeld:
Overview
- Describe the:
- Problems with physical servers that lead to a requirement for virtualization and VMware vSphere 6
- Benefits of using server virtualization and VMware vSphere 6
- Resource utilization efficiencies gained from using VMware vSphere 6
- Business continuity and high uptime benefits of using VMware vSphere 6
- TCO and centralized management benefits of using VMware vSphere 6
- Differentiate between type I and type II hypervisors, and describe VMware ESXi
- Describe the:
- Hosts and VMs in a virtualization environment
- Features and versioning of the VMware vSphere 6 host client
- Features and functionality of VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Server
- Manage VMware vSphere 6 with the web client
- Match the VMware ESXi licenses with the functionality they grant
- Describe:
- The standard VMware vSphere 6 license and the feature set enabled
- vMotion licensing in VMware vSphere 6
- Uptime and high availability features enabled by VMware vSphere 6
- VMware vSphere 6 data protection and fault tolerance features
- The vShield Endpoint, replication, and hot add features of VMware vSphere 6
- Recognize the enhancements offered by the enterprise licensing for VMware vSphere 6
- Describe the:
- Distributed resource scheduler and power management features of VMware vSphere 6
- Storage APIs and multipathing feature of VMware vSphere 6
- VMware vSphere 6 technologies for working with big data
- VMware vSphere 6 enterprise plus license feature set
- Features enabled in VMware vSphere 6 with the essentials kit licenses
- Describe:
- Additional features enabled by enterprise plus licensing in VMware vSphere 6
- Features offered by VMware vSphere 6 support and services licenses
- Recognize the license required for a specific product set
Installation
- Prepare for VMware vSphere 6 ESXi hypervisor installation
- Choose media from which to install VMware vSphere 6
- Describe the importance of assessing new features when preparing a VMware vSphere 6 deployment
- Locate the ESXi hypervisor in the VMware vSphere 6 topology
- Install VMware vSphere 6 ESXi hypervisor
- Run the VMware vSphere 6 ESXi hypervisor installation wizard
- Connect to VMware vSphere 6 ESXi hypervisor for management
- Configure lockdown mode on VMware vSphere 6 Direct Console User Interface
- Configure the management network of the VMware vSphere 6 Direct Console User Interface
- Troubleshoot the VMware vSphere 6 Direct Console User Interface
- Describe options for managing VMware vSphere 6 hosts one by one
- Configure the host client for VMware vSphere 6
- Manage multiple VMware vSphere 6 hosts simultaneously
- Prepare installation of VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Server
- Begin deployment of VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Server
- Configure system options in a VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Server Installation
- Configure VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Server settings
- Complete installation of VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Server
- Describe changes in VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Server installation process
- Describe options for installing VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Appliance
- Initiate the VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Appliance installation wizard
- Select VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Appliance deployment type
- Set appliance size and datastore for VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Appliance
- Complete VMware vSphere 6 vCenter Appliance installation
- List the steps to install vCenter Server and ESXi hypervisor
Virtual Networks
- Use port groups to segment VM traffic in VMware vSphere 6
- Configure:
- VMkernel port groups in VMware vSphere 6
- Fault tolerance VMkernel port group in VMware vSphere 6
- Traffic between hosts using vMotion in VMware vSphere 6
- VLAN tagging in VMware vSphere 6
- Layer 2 switching in VMware vSphere 6
- NIC teaming in VMware vSphere 6
- Load balancing in VMware vSphere 6
- Failover in VMware vSphere 6
- vSwitch security in VMware vSphere 6
- Edit a virtual switch in VMware vSphere 6
- Describe how switch settings are propagated in VMware vSphere 6
- Configure:
- Properties on a virtual switch in VMware vSphere 6
- Security settings on a virtual switch in VMware vSphere 6
- Traffic shaping on a virtual switch in VMware vSphere 6
- Port groups on a virtual switch in VMware vSphere 6
- Create a VMkernel network adapter in VMware vSphere 6
- Configure teaming and failover in VMware vSphere 6
- Add and edit a physical network adapter in VMware vSphere 6
- Configure:
- A physical network adapter in VMware vSphere 6
- TCP/IP network settings in VMware vSphere 6
- And manage virtual networks in vSphere 6
Storage and VMs
- Contrast local and shared storage in a VMware vSphere 6 environment
- Describe:
- RAID options in VMware vSphere 6
- Storage area network logical unit numbers in VMware vSphere 6
- Datastores and raw disk mapping in VMware vSphere 6
- Storage provisioning concepts used in VMware vSphere 6
- Configure storage adapters in VMware vSphere 6
- Measure and manage storage performance in a VMware vSphere 6 environment
- Recognize the differences between storage network transport layer protocols in VMware vSphere 6
- Describe:
- Tiered storage in VMware vSphere 6
- A virtual machine in VMware vSphere 6
- The files associated with a virtual machine in VMware vSphere 6
- Configure virtual machine settings in VMware vSphere 6
- Describe:
- Storage location options for virtual machines in VMware vSphere 6
- The benefits and drawbacks on virtual machines in VMware vSphere 6
- Hardware versions in VMware vSphere 6
- Create a virtual machine in VMware vSphere 6
- Work with virtual machine templates in VMware vSphere 6
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots in VMware vSphere 6
- Manually migrate a VMware vSphere 6 virtual machine between hosts
- Use vCenter Server to manage virtual machines in VMware vSphere 6
- Describe virtual machine best practices in VMware vSphere 6
- Describe virtual machine placement best practices in VMware vSphere 6
- Manage VMs and storage using VMware
Clustering
- Describe the basic process of setting up a cluster
- Describe limitations of a physical server environment
- Identify situations when it is appropriate to cluster
- Describe clustering fault tolerance, high availability, and Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Describe vMotion and perform a manual vMotion transfer
- Recognize characteristics of a Storage vMotion migration
- Identify processor, storage, and networking limitations of vMotion
- Describe characteristics of virtual machine fault tolerance
- Specify the necessary requirements for virtual machine fault tolerance
- Configure virtual machine fault tolerance
- Use VMWare to verify a fault tolerance implementation
- Identify best practices for fault tolerance implementation
- Describe the fundamentals of high availability in a virtualized environment
- Describe the various roles, and election process, within high availability
- Create a high-availability cluster in a VMWare virtualized environment
- Configure a high-availability cluster in a VMWare virtualized environment
- Describe host monitoring in a VMWare virtualized environment
- Recognize how admission control policies help manage hardware resources
- Identify high-availability VM monitoring settings
- Describe cluster monitoring settings in a VMWare virtualized environment
- Describe and configure various clustering, fault tolerance, and high-availability settings in vSphere 6
DRS
- Recognize uses of Distributed Resource Scheduler in a VMware virtualized environment
- Describe methods of enabling Distributed Resource Scheduler in a VMware virtualized environment
- Compare the three levels of automation within Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Select an appropriate automation migration threshold within Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Create Distributed Resource Scheduler groups and apply rules
- Describe how Distributed Resource Scheduler overrides function
- Use Schedule DRS to automatically manage resources in a VMware virtualized environment
- Use Distributed Resource Scheduler to monitor events, performance, and resource utilization
- Describe the benefits of Distributed Power Management in DRS
- Recognize how storage DRS assists with data store management
- Describe various advanced storage Distributed Resource Scheduler options
- Describe how shares benefit resource utilization in a VMware virtualized environment
- Recognize how resource:
- Reservations are used in a VMware virtualized environment
- Limits are used in a VMware virtualized environment
- Pools are used in a VMware virtualized environment
- Recognize how Distributed Resource Scheduler, DRS monitoring, and cluster resource management benefit resource utilization in a VMware virtualized environment
Monitoring
- Describe how performance charts offer a real-time look into hardware utilization within a VMWare virtualized environment
- Use performance charts to identify potential hardware utilization issues within a VMWare virtualized environment
- Use event results to identify potential issues within a VMWare virtualized environment
- Identify how hardware status results help identify potential issues with host hardware
- Use Log Browser as a troubleshooting tool within a VMWare virtualized environment
- Use tags to help organize a VMWare virtualized environment
- Describe how to effectively use searches and filters within a VMWare virtualized environment
- Describe characteristics of alarms within vSphere
- Recognize methods to configure alarms within vSphere
- Configure an alarm within vSphere
- Identify best practices for responding to alarms within vSphere
- Describe how scheduled tasks help with maintenance within a VMWare virtualized environment
- Describe the purpose of host profiles in vSphere
- Create a host profile in vSphere
- Apply a host profile to a host or cluster within vSphere
- Describe how to scan for profile compliance within vSphere
- Perform host profile remediation in vSphere to bring profiles into compliance
- Describe how storage policies benefit a VMWare virtualized environment
- Describe and configure monitoring, alarms, and profile features in vSphere 6
Design
- Describe how cluster resources are allocated within vSphere
- Recognize best practices for allocating VM CPU resources within vSphere
- Recognize best practices for allocating memory resources within vSphere
- Describe how:
- Memory overcommitment functions within vSphere
- Paging assists with memory management within vSphere
- Resource pools assist with resource allocation within vSphere
- Use vSphere to allocate resources with pools for optimal cluster design
- Describe the benefits of expansion and nesting resource pools within vSphere
- Recall the importance of optimal vApp resource allocation
- Describe how to maximize resource efficiency within vSphere
- Describe basic design best practices for an optimal VMWare virtualized environment
- Identify basic design considerations for an optimal VMWare virtualized environment
- Describe:
- The organizational importance of the VMWare virtualized environment discovery phase
- Characteristics of the VMWare virtualized environment conceptual design phase
- The organizational importance of the VMWare virtualized environment logical design phase
- Characteristics of the VMWare virtualized environment physical design phase
- Characteristics of VMWare virtualized environment design testing
- And recognize advanced resource management and basic design principles as they relate to vSphere 6 in a VMWare virtualized environment
Updating
- Describe the purpose of Update Manager in a vSphere 6 environment
- Recognize criteria for an Update Manager installation on a Windows server
- Describe the purpose of the Update Manager plugin
- Compare the different views of the Update Manager interface
- Recognize the capabilities of the Update Manager administrative and compliance views
- Describe basic network configuration options within administrative view of Update Manager
- Recognize capabilities of the download settings configuration options within administrative view of Update Manager
- Describe the importance of VM snapshots and recognize capabilities of the virtual machine settings within administrative view of Update Manager
- Describe the functionality of maintenance mode under ESXi host cluster settings
- Recognize the importance of cluster settings for an ESXi host
- Describe:
- XE boot and vApp settings under ESXi host cluster settings
- How the patch repository is used to maintain a vSphere 6 environment
- How ESXi images are imported within Update Manager
- The functionality of the vApp upgrade settings within Update Manager
- The functionality of events and notifications settings within Update Manager
- How baselines and groups help organize patches within vSphere 6
- Use baselines and groups to apply patches within a vSphere 6 environment
- Recognize how to attach baselines to various objects within a vSphere 6 environment
- List best practices for using baselines within a vSphere 6 environment
- Recognize the importance of baseline groups and scanning for compliance within vSphere 6 environment
- Use Update Manager to remediate a vSphere 6 environment
- Describe and recognize how various Update Manager options ease patch management of vSphere 6 in a VMware virtualized environment
Upgrading
- Identify prerequisites for upgrading to VMWare vSphere 6
- Recognize product licensing requirements for upgrading to VMWare vSphere 6
- Select the appropriate upgrade path or type for upgrading to VMWare vSphere 6
- Choose between performing a new installation or an in place upgrade to VMWare vSphere 6
- Describe how to determine system requirements for upgrading to VMWare vSphere 6
- Identify considerations with existing plugins and add-ons when upgrading to VMWare vSphere 6
- Describe important elements to consider prior to initiating an ESXi manual upgrade
- Describe the VMWare vSphere 6 installation upgrade process
- Complete the VMWare vSphere 6 installation upgrade process
- Describe VMWare vSphere 6 post upgrade actions
- Identify common vCenter upgrade concerns
- Describe vCenter Server Appliance upgrade recommendations
- Describe vCenter host and Web Client upgrade recommendations
- Use Update Manager to organize upgrade preconfiguration details
- Work with Update Manager to upgrade VMWare vSphere from 5.5 to 6
- Recall the importance of vCenter remediation
- Describe considerations for VM tools and hardware upgrades
- Describe and complete the vSphere 6 upgrade process, including vCenter and Update Manager upgrades
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