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

1. Networking

• Virtual networking concepts
• Standard Switch failure detection
• vSphere Standard Switch NIC teaming
• vSphere Distributed Switch concepts
• vSphere Standard Switch resources
• Create a vSphere Distributed Switch
• CDP and LLDP
• vSphere Distributed Switch settings
• Private VLANs (PVLAN)
• Configure private VLANs in vSphere
• Configure distributed port groups
• Distributed Switch Security policies
• Foundation Review: Distributed Switch NIC teaming
• Configure vDS NIC teaming and failover
• Foundation review: Traffic review
• Configure traffic shaping in vSphere
• Migrate VMs to a vSphere Distributed Switch
• Verify network configuration in vSphere
• Network I/O Control (NIOC)
• Configure NIOC in vSphere
• Filtering and tagging
• Foundation review: Netflow
• Configure netflow
• Foundation review: Port mirroring
• Configure Port mirroring in vSphere
• Network health check
• vSphere Distributed Switch health check
• Virtual Switch features: Host level rollback
• Virtual Switch features: Distributed Switch rollback

2. Storage

• vSphere Storage performance overview
• VMFS and NFS datastores
• Foundation Review: NFS v3 and NFS v4.1
• Demo: Create an NFS datastore in vSphere
• Foundation review: iSCSI storage
• Demo: Connect an ESXI host to an iSCSI storage array
• Demo: Create a VMFS datastore using iSCSI
• Demo: Storage port bindings and multipathing policies
• Demo: Expand a VMFS datastore
• Introduction to Storage DRS (SDRS)
• Demo: Create a Storage DRS (SDRS) cluster in vSphere
• vSAN vs. Traditional storage arrays
• Introduction to vSAN
• vSAN disk groups
• vSAN Express Storage Architecture
• Demo: vSAN network configuration
• Demo: Create a vSAN cluster
• Demo: Storage I/O Control (SIOC) for vSphere

3. Monitoring Tools

• The vSphere CPU scheduler
• ESXi and hyperthreading
• CPU Coscheduling and VM Rightsizing
• vSphere Resource Management
• Memory virtualization
• Demo: Performance charts
• ESXTOP
• Demo: ESXTOP

4. Securing a vSphere Deployment

• vSphere Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Demo: vSphere Single Sign-On (SSO)
• vCenter Identity Provider Federation
• Demo: vSphere roles and permissions
• Demo: VM encryption
• Demo: Secure boot and Encrypted vMotion
• Demo: ESXi host firewall and services
• Demo: Configure lockdown mode

5. Updates and Upgrades

• vCenter multi-homing
• vSphere lifecycle management
• vSphere upgrade planning
• Demo: vCenter and vSphere license keys
• Demo: Install VMware tools on a VM
• Demo: Update VMware tools
• Demo: Update VM virtual hardware
• Upgrading ESXi 7 to ESXi 8
• Demo: Interactive upgrade to ESXi 8
• Demo: Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance

6. Deploying VMs and Hosts

• Demo: Register and unregister a VM
• Demo: Working with VMX files
• Demo: VM advanced settings
• Deploying VMs using vCenter Converter
• Assignable hardware
• Using Auto Deploy to image ESXi hosts

7. Resource Management

• Configure VM reservations and limits
• Configure shares
• Configure Hot plug and memory hot add for VMs
• Resource pools and vApps
• Scalable shares
• Create resource pools
• Expandable reservations
• Configure vApps for multitier applications

8. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

• DRS enhancements in vSphere 7
• Configure DRS
• vCLS VMs
• DRS VM distribution and CPU overcommitment
• DRS Distributed Power Management (DPM)
• Monitor a DRS cluster
• DRS affinity rules, groups, and VM overrides
• Avoiding downtime with DRS and maintenance mode in vSphere 7
• vSphere Cluster QuickStart

9. Troubleshooting, Backup, and Recovery

• Working with vCenter logs
• Migrating hosts and resource pools to a DRS cluster
• Working with ESXi logs

10. High Availability

• Create an HA cluster
• Configure Admission Control
• Configure Heartbeat Datastores

11. Advanced vSphere Management

• Demo: vCenter PNID and FQDN changes
• vCenter Server Profiles
• Demo: Precision Time Protocol