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This exam validates you have the skills required to successfully install, deploy, scale and manage VMware vSphere 6 environments.
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+ Section 1: Configure and Administer vSphere Security
+ Objective 1.1: Configure and Administer Role-based Access Control
Knowledge
- Compare and contrast propagated and explicit permission assignments
- Add/Modify/Remove permissions for users and groups on vCenter Server inventory objects
- Determine how permissions are applied and inherited in vCenter Server
- Configure VMware Directory Service
- Apply a role to a User/Group and to an object or group of objects
- Determine the appropriate set of privileges for common tasks in vCenter Server
- Compare and contrast default system/sample roles
- Determine the correct permissions needed to integrate vCenter Server with other VMware products
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Security Guide
- What’s New in the VMware vSphere? 6.0 Platform
- vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 1.2: Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and vSphere Virtual Machines
Knowledge
- Harden virtual machine access
- Control VM data access
- Configure virtual machine security policies
- Harden a virtual machine against Denial-of-Service attacks
- Control VM-VM communications
- Control VM device connections
- Configure network security policies
- Harden ESXi Hosts
- Enable/Configure/Disable services in the ESXi firewall
- Change default account access
- Add an ESXi Host to a directory service
- Enable Lockdown Mode
- Control access to hosts (DCUI/Shell/SSH/MOB)
- Harden vCenter Server
- Create/Manage vCenter Server Security Certificates
- Change default account access
- Restrict administrative privileges
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Security Guide
- What’s New in the VMware vSphere? 6.0 Platform
- Security of the VMware vSphere? Hypervisor
- vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client Guide
- VMware Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide added to Tech Resource Directory
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 1.3: Enable SSO and Active Directory Integration
Knowledge
- Describe SSO architecture and components
- Differentiate available authentication methods with VMware vCenter
- Perform a multi-site SSO installation
- Configure/Manage Active Directory Authentication
- Configure/Manage Platform Services Controller (PSC)
- Configure/Manage VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
- Enable/Disable Single Sign-On (SSO) Users
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Security Guide
- What’s New in the VMware vSphere? 6.0 Platform
- VMware vCenter Server? 6.0 Deployment Guide
- Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Section 2: Configure and Administer Advanced vSphere Networking
+ Objective 2.1: Configure Advanced Policies/Features and Verify Network Virtualization Implementation
Knowledge
- Explain the behavior of a virtual Distributed Switch (vDS) Auto-Rollback
- Determine and configure appropriate port group PVLAN settings for VMs given communication requirements
- Determine physical network connectivity requirements between ESXi Hosts to support vDS deployments
- Configure LACP on vDS given design parameters
- Configure vDS across multiple vCenter Servers to support Long Distance vMotion
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Networking Guide
- What’s New in the VMware vSphere? 6.0 Platform
- Leveraging NIC Technology to Improve Network Performance in VMware vSphere
- VDS Network Health Check
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 2.2: Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)
Knowledge
- Configure NIOC shares/limits based on VM requirements
- Explain the behavior of a given NIOC setting
- Determine Network I/O Control requirements
- Differentiate Network I/O Control capabilities
- Enable/Disable Network I/O Control
+ Section 3: Configure and Administer Advanced vSphere Storage
+ Objective 3.1: Manage vSphere Storage Virtualization
Knowledge
- Configure FC/iSCSI/FCoE LUNs as ESXi boot devices
- Enable/Configure/Disable vCenter Server storage filters
- Configure/Edit hardware/dependent hardware initiators
- Enable/Disable software iSCSI initiator
- Configure/Edit software iSCSI initiator settings
- Configure iSCSI port binding
- Enable/Configure/Disable iSCSI CHAP
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Storage Guide
- Best Practices for Running VMware vSphere? on iSCSI
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 3.2: Configure Software-defined Storage
Knowledge
- Determine the role of storage providers in VSAN
- Determine the role of storage providers in VVOLs
- Explain VSAN failure domains functionality
- Configure/Manage VMware Virtual SAN
- Create/Modify VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs)
- Enable/Disable Virtual SAN Fault Domains
- Create Virtual Volumes given the workload and availability requirements
- Create storage policies appropriate for given workloads and availability requirements
+ Objective 3.3: Configure vSphere Storage Multi-pathing and Failover
Knowledge
- Explain common multi-pathing components
- Differentiate APD and PDL states
- Understand the effects of a given claim rule on multipathing and failover
- Change the Path Selection Policy using the UI
- Determine required claim rule elements to change the default PSP
- Determine the effect of changing PSP on Multipathing and failover
- Determine the effects of changing SATP on relevant device behavior
- Configure/Manage Storage Load Balancing
- Differentiate available Storage Load Balancing options
- Differentiate available Storage Multi-pathing Policies
- Configure Storage Policies
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vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Storage Guide
- Multipathing Configuration for Software iSCSI Using Port Binding
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 3.4: Perform Advanced VMFS and NFS Configurations and Upgrades
Knowledge
- Upgrade VMFS3 to VMFS5
- Compare functionality of newly created vs. upgraded VMFS5 datastores
- Compare and contrast VMFS and NFS datastore properties
- Extend/Expand VMFS datastores
- Place a VMFS datastore in Maintenance Mode
- Select the Preferred Path/Disable a Path to a VMFS datastore
- Enable/Disable vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)
- Given a scenario, determine a proper use case for multiple VMFS/NFS datastores
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Storage Guide
- VMware vSphere? Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI)
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 3.5: Setup and Configure Storage I/O Control
Knowledge
- Enable and configure SIOC
- Configure/Manage SIOC
- Monitor SIOC
- Given a scenario, determine a proper use case for SIOC
- Compare and contrast the effects of I/O contention in environments with and without SIOC
- Administering VMware Virtual SAN
- vSphere Storage Guide
- vSphere Resource Management Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Section 4: Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x
+ Objective 4.1: Perform ESXi Host and Virtual Machine Upgrades
Knowledge
- Configure download source(s)
- Stage patches & Extensions
- Remediate an object
- Upgrade a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Upgrade VMware Tools
- Upgrade Virtual Machine hardware
- Stage multiple ESXi Host upgrades
- Align appropriate baselines with target inventory objects.
- vSphere Upgrade Guide
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 4.2: Perform vCenter Server Upgrades
Knowledge
- Compare the methods of upgrading vCenter Server
- Backup vCenter Server database, configuration and certificate datastore
- Perform update as prescribed for Appliance or Installable
- Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
- Given a scenario, determine the upgrade compatibility of an environment
- Determine correct order of steps to upgrade a vSphere implementation
+ Section 5: Administer and Manage vSphere 6.x Resources
+ Objective 5.1: Configure Advanced/Multilevel Resource Pools
Knowledge
- Determine the effect of the Expandable Reservation parameter on resource allocation
- Create a resource pool hierarchical structure
- Configure custom resource pool attributes
- Determine how resource pools apply to vApps
- Create/Remove a Resource Pool
- Add/Remove virtual machines from a Resource Pool
- Given a scenario, determine appropriate shares, reservations and limits for hierarchical Resource Pools
- vSphere Resource Management
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide
- What’s New in VMware vSphere? Flash Read Cache?
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Section 6: Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment
+ Objective 6.1: Configure and Administer a vSphere Backups/Restore/Replication Solution
Knowledge
- Compare and contrast vSphere Replication compression methods
- Differentiate VMware Data Protection capabilities
- Explain VMware Data Protection sizing guidelines
- Install and Configure VMware Data Protection
- Create a backup job with VMware Data Protection
- Backup/Restore a virtual machine with VMware Data Protection
- Install/Configure/Upgrade vSphere Replication
- Configure vSphere Replication for Single/Multiple VMs
- Recover a VM using vSphere Replication
- VMware vSphere? Data Protection? 6.0
- vSphere Data Protection Administration Guide
- VMware vSphere? Data Protection? Evaluation Guide
- What’s New in the VMware vSphere? 6.0 Platform
- VMware vSphere Replication Administration
- VDR Data Migration Tool
- VDP Configure Utility
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Section 7: Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment
+ Objective 7.1: Troubleshoot vCenter Server, ESXi Hosts, and Virtual Machines
Knowledge
- Monitor status of the vCenter Server service
- Perform basic maintenance of a vCenter Server database
- Monitor status of ESXi management agents
- Determine ESXi Host stability issues and gather diagnostics information
- Monitor ESXi system health
- Locate and analyze vCenter Server and ESXi logs
- Determine the appropriate Command Line Interface (CLI) command for a given troubleshooting task
- Troubleshoot common issues, including:
- vCenter Server service
- SSO
- vCenter Server connectivity
- Virtual machine resource contention, configuration and operation
- Platform Services Controller (PSC)
- Problems with installation
- VMware Tools installation
- Fault Tolerant network latency
+ Objective 7.2: Troubleshoot vSphere Storage and Network Issues
Knowledge
- Identify and isolate network and storage resource contention and latency issues
- Monitor networking and storage resources using vCOPs alerts and all badges
- Verify network and storage configuration
- Verify a given virtual machine is configured with the correct network resources
- Monitor/Troubleshoot Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) issues
- Recognize the impact of network and storage I/O control configurations
- Recognize a connectivity issue caused by a VLAN/PVLAN
- Troubleshoot common issues with:
- Storage and network
- Virtual switch and port group configuration
- Physical network adapter configuration
- VMFS metadata consistency
- vSphere Networking Guide
- vSphere Storage Guide
- vSphere Troubleshooting Guide
- vSphere Server and Host Management Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 7.3: Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades
Knowledge
- Collect upgrade diagnostic information
- Recognize common upgrade issues with vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance
- Create/Locate/Analyze VMware log bundles
- Determine alternative methods to upgrade ESXi Hosts in event of failure
- Configure vCenter Server logging options
- vSphere Upgrade Guide
- vSphere Troubleshooting Guide
- vSphere Update Manager Utility
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
- Update Manager Web Client
+ Section 8: Deploy and Consolidate vSphere Data Center
+ Objective 8.1: Deploy ESXi Hosts Using Autodeploy
Knowledge
- Utilize Auto Deploy Image Builder VMware PowerCLI scripts
- Utilize Host Profile answer files during an Auto Deploy of an ESXi Host
- Install and configure Auto Deploy
- Explain PowerCLI cmdlets for Auto Deploy
- Deploy/Manage multiple ESXi Hosts using Auto Deploy
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
- Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
+ Objective 8.2: Customize Host Profile Settings
Knowledge
- Edit answer file to customize ESXi Host settings
- Modify and apply a storage PSP to a device using host profiles
- Modify and apply standard switch configuration across multiple hosts using host profiles
- Create/Edit/Remove a Host Profile from an ESXi Host
- Import/Export a Host Profile
- Attach/Apply a Host Profile to an ESXi Host or cluster
- Perform compliance scanning and remediation of an ESXi Hosts and clusters using Host Profiles
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Host Profiles Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Section 9: Configure and Administer vSphere Availability Solutions
+ Objective 9.1: Configure Advanced vSphere HA Features
Knowledge
- Modify vSphere HA advanced cluster settings
- Configure a network for use with HA heartbeats
- Apply an admission control policy for HA
- Enable/disable advanced vSphere HA settings
- Configure different heartbeat datastores for an HA cluster
- Apply virtual machine monitoring for a cluster
- Configure Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP) settings
- Explain how vSphere HA communicates with Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management
+ Objective 9.2: Configure Advanced vSphere DRS Features
Knowledge
- Configure VM-Host affinity/anti-affinity rules
- Configure VM-VM affinity/anti-affinity rules
- Enable/disable Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity rules
- Configure the proper Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) automation level based on a set of business requirements
- Explain how DRS affinity rules effect virtual machine placement
+ Section 10: Administer and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines
+ Objective 10.1: Configure Advanced vSphere Virtual Machine Settings
Knowledge
- Configure virtual machines for vGPUs, DirectPath I/O and SR-IOV
- Configure virtual machines for multicore vCPUs
- Differentiate virtual machine configuration settings
- Interpret virtual machine configuration files (.vmx) settings
- Enable/disable advanced virtual machine settings
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client Guide
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 10.2: Create and Manage a Multi-site Content Library
Knowledge
- Publish a content catalog
- Subscribe to a published catalog
- Determine which privileges are required to globally manage a content catalog
- Compare the functionality of Automatic sync and On-Demand sync
- Configure Content Library to work across sites
- Configure Content Library authentication
- Set/configure Content Library roles
- Add/remove Content Libraries
+ Exam Contributors
Mostafa Khalil
Garth Miller
Damian Wraa
Linus Bourque
Jonathan McDonald
Jeff Weiss
Vivian Li
Lizann Dunegan
Rob Philp
Joe Desmond
Andrew Ellwood
Arantxa Duque Barrachina
Carla Gavalakis
Garth Miller
Damian Wraa
Linus Bourque
Jonathan McDonald
Jeff Weiss
Vivian Li
Lizann Dunegan
Rob Philp
Joe Desmond
Andrew Ellwood
Arantxa Duque Barrachina
Carla Gavalakis
Recommended Training
vSphere: What's New [V5.5 to V6]
vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6]
vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6]
vSphere: Design & Deploy Fast Track [V6]
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure and Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track [V6.0]
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