VMware VCP-DCV vSphere 7: Virtual Machine Resource Management and Availability Competency (Intermediate Level)

Topics covered

• describe the role of fault tolerance in host clusters and recognize how to enable fault tolerance to protect a VM
• recognize how using VM snapshots can provide several benefits and how to create and apply snapshots using the vSphere Client
• recognize issues associated with memory and CPU resource management, as well as how to create and use resource pools and vApps to control resource allocations with reservations, shares, and limits
• recognize the differences between templates and cloning, when each should be used for deploying VMs, how to use cloning to create a copy of a VM, and how to use a template to deploy a VM
• recognize the importance of automation in the provisioning and deployment process for VMs, as well as how to create and use a customization specification file as part of a VM deployment cycle
• recognize the importance of vSphere HA in the modern enterprise, as well as how to enable, configure, and optimize the HA service in your host cluster
• recognize the reasons why using vMotion as a proactive VM management tool can yield great results in many areas, as well as how to use vMotion and Storage vMotion to move a VM and its back-end storage while powered on
• recognize the role of Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) in host clusters and how to create a host cluster and enable DRS
• recognize the uses and importance of vCenter alarms, how to create alarms, and how the concept of hierarchy applies to alarms
• recognize the various components of the vSphere High Availability (HA) service, the three types of host failures that VMware defines, and the different admission control types available with vSphere HA
• recognize tools that can be used to monitor resource usage in vCenter, how to use the advanced monitoring capabilities built into vCenter, and how to use esxtop via PuTTY
• recognize use cases for content libraries, as well as how to create a content library and use a template from the library to deploy a VM into your production data center
• recognize VM management concepts and settings that are useful for optimizing VMs