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Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 6.7 Exam 2V0-21.19
Study Guide

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Jon Hall

Joshua Andrews

 

 

 

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The authors would like to dedicate this book to their patient and understanding families.

Acknowledgments

This book would not exist today if it weren't for the help of several individuals. First and foremost, my co-author, Joshua Andrews, stepped in to make this book a reality when I realized just how overwhelming a project like this is. The bulk of the material you will be exposed to here is his creation, and I am proud to call Josh a good friend of mine and humbled that he was willing to help. I would also like to thank our excellent technical editors, Dave Davis and Ken Nalbone. Dave and Ken did amazing work double-checking our technical accuracy and pointing out any omissions, so hopefully you should find few, if any, errors. Any mistakes you may find that they didn't catch are mine and mine alone. Finally, I would like to thank Jim Minatel, Pete Gaughan, Candace Cunningham, and all the folks at Wiley who were extremely helpful and even more patient throughout this process.

—Jon Hall

About the Authors

Jon Hall began his career in IT as a technical educator for companies like SMC Networks, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard, where he focused on networking, storage area networking, server administration, and datacenter virtualization technologies. Eventually, he became involved in technical certification and has continued to focus on certification for the past 15 years. Jon considers certification to be a critical part of the IT industry, and indeed it has become his passion. As a certification manager at VMware, Jon built an industry-leading program from a single certification to more than a dozen certifications across various technologies and levels of expertise. On the way, he helped over 100,000 IT professionals become virtualization evangelists. During that time he also worked as a technical editor on several VMware Press books and spoke at numerous VMware events across the globe. Today, Jon works as the certification manager for Nutanix, where he continues to create new evangelists in the hybrid and multicloud spaces. This is his first book. He can be reached at www.linkedin.com/in/halljon.

Joshua Andrews is a VMware expert, blogger, and certification enthusiast. His first certifications were Certified Novell Engineer and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Over the years he has also received certifications from NetApp, IBM, and Dell. He currently holds numerous VMware certifications, including VCP6-DCV, VCAP6-DCV, VCIX-DCV, and VCIX-NV. He has also received the VMware vExpert designation every year since 2012.

In his IT career Josh has been a programmer, network engineer, system administrator, storage administrator, technical writer, and consultant, and a freelance instructor for VMware. He worked for VMware for several years as a member of the certification team, focusing on developing and administering the VMware Certified Advanced Professional exams. During that time he acted as technical editor for several books from VMware Press.

Josh has been working with VMware products since late 2001 when he put ESX 1.0 into production at Cass Information Systems in St Louis. He blogs at sostechblog.com and can be reached at josh@sostechblog.com.

Table of Exercises

Exercise 1.1Create a baseline and scan a host for compliance
Exercise 1.2Create a local Content Library in the HTML5 client and upload an OVA
Exercise 1.3Clone a virtual machine to a template in a local Content Library and deploy a new VM from the template
Exercise 2.1Creating a custom role
Exercise 2.2Applying a role to a user on an object
Exercise 2.3Hardening an ESXi host
Exercise 2.4Enabling Lockdown
Exercise 2.5Configuring Encrypted vMotion
Exercise 2.6Hardening a VM
Exercise 3.1Add a host to a distributed switch
Exercise 3.2Create a new TCP/IP stack and create a VMkernel adapter to use it. Enable jumbo frames
Exercise 3.3Create a new distributed switch and enable jumbo frames
Exercise 3.4Configure Network I/O Control on a distributed switch
Exercise 4.1Add an NFS v3 datastore
Exercise 4.2Add an NFS v4.1 datastore
Exercise 4.3Create and configure a new datastore cluster
Exercise 4.4Add an RDM to a virtual machine
Exercise 4.5Configure VVols provider
Exercise 5.1Upgrade a VCSA 6.0 server with embedded PSC to VCSA 6.5
Exercise 5.2Upgrade a host from 5.5 to 6.5 using VUM
Exercise 6.1Create a resource pool
Exercise 6.2Add a virtual machine to a resource pool
Exercise 6.3Configure a custom attribute for a resource pool
Exercise 6.4Remove a virtual machine from a resource pool
Exercise 6.5Remove a resource pool
Exercise 6.6Enabling a cluster for DRS
Exercise 6.7Add a host DRS group
Exercise 6.8Create a VM group
Exercise 6.9Create a VM/Host affinity rule
Exercise 6.10Remove a VM group
Exercise 6.11Remove a host group
Exercise 7.1Back up a VCSA appliance
Exercise 7.2Back up an Exchange server using VDP
Exercise 7.3Recover a replicated virtual machine
Exercise 8.1Export ESXi and vCenter log files
Exercise 8.2View esxtop stats
Exercise 8.3View vimtop stats
Exercise 9.1Enable and configure Auto Deploy
Exercise 9.2Extract and edit a host profile, attach the profile to a cluster, and check for compliance
Exercise 10.1Configure a cluster for Slot Policy
Exercise 10.2Configure a cluster for dedicated hosts
Exercise 10.3Enable vCenter HA and test failover
Exercise 11.1Reconfigure an existing virtual machine
Exercise 11.2Create a subscribed content catalog
Exercise 11.3Convert a physical server to a vSphere virtual machine