VCA-DCV VMware Certified Associate on vSphere Study Guide E-Book

Robert Schmidt

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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Beschreibung

Use this expert guide to prepare for the VCA-DCV exam

VCA-DCV VMware Certified Associate on vSphere Study Guide: VCAD-510 is a comprehensive study guide for the VMware Certified Associate – Data Center Virtualization exam. Hands-on examples, real-world scenarios, and expert review questions cover the full exam blueprint, and the companion website offers a suite of tools to help you prepare for the exam including practice exams, electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms. In addition, the website includes videos that demonstrate how to complete the more challenging tasks. Focused on practical skills, this study guide not only prepares you for the certification exam, but also for the duties expected of a VCA.

The VMware Certified Associate-Data Center Virtualization certification targets those with limited virtualization and VMware data center technology experience, providing a springboard to the popular VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization certification. Virtualization has become a high priority among organizations, and credentialed professionals are in high demand. This guide helps you prove a certain level of foundational skill in basic virtualization technology, including the vSphere suite's Infrastructure Services, Application Services, and vCenter Server. Topics include:

• Explaining data center virtualization concepts
• Identifying the core components of vSphere
• Networking and storage planning/configuration with vSphere
• Correlating VMware solutions to common business challenges

The VCA-DCV certification is the only one with no instructor-led training requirement, so a thorough study guide is an invaluable tool in you exam preparation. This book not only covers the full exam, but also provides practice designed to actually improve the skills used every day on the job. VCA-DCV VMware Certified Associate on vSphere Study Guide is more than just test prep—it's job prep.

Leseprobe

VCA-DCV

VMware® Certified Associate-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere

Study Guide

Robert Schmidt Dane Charlton

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Robert would like to dedicate this book to his wife and three daughters for putting up with him while he was locked in the basement writing it.

Dane would like to dedicate this book to his loving wife and best friend and to thank her for being there for him.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge all of the people at Sybex whose hard work has made this book possible. We would especially like to thank them for their patience with us as we worked through the process of getting a book completed. Our special thanks go out to our acquisitions editor, Kenyon Brown, for bringing us into the project and to our production editor Christine O'Connor and developmental editor Candace Cunningham for keeping us on track and focused on moving forward. We would also like to thank our copy editor, Sharon Wilkey, and our proofreader, Rebecca Rider, for all of the work they have done on this book.

We would also like to thank our coworker and friend Eric Biller for joining the project as our technical editor. His suggestions have helped to keep the text as accurate as possible and have kept us from making a number of obvious and some not so obvious mistakes.

I, Rob Schmidt, would also like to personally thank my coauthor, Dane Charlton, for agreeing to write this book with me and for being one of the first people who got me interested in VMware and their products. By encouraging me to pursue VMware many years ago, he has had a major impact, for the better, on my career and in my life.

About the Authors

Robert Schmidt holds the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), CompTIA Linux+, Novell Certified Network Administrator (CNA), VMware Certified Administrator (VCA), and VMware Certified Professional (VCP 2.5, 3, 4, 5). In the past, he has held the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and the Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) certifications.

Robert has over 20 years of experience working with information technology and has spent the last 10 years specializing in virtualization. He has been heavily involved in several large virtualization initiatives and continues to work in the Cleveland, Ohio area. He has been married for 19 years and has three daughters.

Dane Charlton holds the following certifications: VMware Certified Professional (VCP 2.5, 3, 4, 5), Microsoft Certified IT Professional (Enterprise Messaging), and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Exchange). In the past, he has held the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Certified Novell Engineer (CNE 2, 3, 4), and Bay Networks Certification.

Dane has over 25 years of experience working with information technology for small and large companies. For the last 15 years, he's been supporting virtualization efforts along with large messaging environments in Akron, Ohio. Dane has been married for 15 years and has three children and eight grandchildren.

Contents

Introduction

Assessment Test

Answers to Assessment Test

Chapter 1 Intro to Virtualization

What Is Data Center Virtualization?

Virtualization Then and Now

Physical and Virtual Data Center Components

Benefits of Using Virtualization

Online Tools

Summary

Exam Essentials

Review Questions

Chapter 2 VMware Solutions

Availability Challenges

Management Challenges

Scalability Challenges

Optimization Challenges

Summary

Exam Essentials

Review Questions

Chapter 3 vSphere Core Components

Virtual Machines

ESXi Hypervisor

vCenter Server

Migration

High Availability

Clusters and Resource Pools

Other VMware Data Center Products

Summary

Exam Essentials

Review Questions

Chapter 4 Storage in a VMware Environment

Physical vs. Virtual Storage

VMware Storage Types

Virtual Machine File System

Disk Provisioning

VMware Virtual Storage Technologies

Summary

Exam Essentials

Review Questions

Chapter 5 Networking in a VMware Environment

Differentiate Physical and Virtual Networking

Differentiate VMware Virtual Switch Technologies

Identify VMware Virtual Switch Components

Identify Common Virtual Switch Policies

Identify Capabilities of Network I/O Control

Summary

Exam Essentials

Review Questions

Chapter 6 Business Challenges Meet VMware Solutions

Availability Challenges and Solutions

Management Challenges and Solutions

Optimization Challenges and Solutions

Scalability Challenges and Solutions

The Differences between SMB and Enterprise Challenges and Solutions

Summary

Exam Essentials

Review Questions

Appendices

Appendix A Answers to Review Questions

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Appendix B Online Resources

VMware Resources

Using Google for Exam Preparation

Index

Advert

EULA

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1

Figure 1.1

Before virtualization, servers were sized for peak load.

Chapter 3

Figure 3.1

Enabling HA

Figure 3.2

Cluster icons

Figure 3.3

Cluster summary example

Figure 3.4

Creating the resource pool

Figure 3.5

Resource Pool icon

Figure 3.6

Nested resource pools

Chapter 5

Figure 5.1

These are all standard switches.

Figure 5.2

Port groups—multiple network cards

Figure 5.3

Standard switch

Figure 5.4

dvSwitch

Figure 5.5

Selecting the port group

Figure 5.6

Port group properties and effective policies

Figure 5.7

Virtual switch traffic shaping

Figure 5.8

Managing port groups

Figure 5.9

Resource Allocation properties

Figure 5.10

Network I/O Control

Figure 5.11

Network resource pool settings

Figure 5.12

Port group association resource pool

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Introduction

Welcome to the VCA-DCV: VMware Certified Associate-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere Study Guide for exam VCAD510. The purpose of this book is to help you prepare for the VCA-DCV exam by becoming familiar with the challenges that businesses face and the tools and technologies that are provided by VMware to help meet those challenges. Even though the book is primarily designed to help with the VCA-DCV, we hope it will also help administrators better understand some of the tools they could be using to make their lives easier as well as gain better insight into the tools that they are using.

We (the authors, Dane Charlton and Robert Schmidt) have extensive backgrounds in information technology and specialize in managing and maintaining large virtual environments. Together we have over 45 years of technology experience that we hope to share in this book.