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