Knowledge

• Identify common virtual switch configurations
  

Skills and Abilities

• Configure SNMP
  
• Determine use cases for and applying VMware DirectPath I/O
• Migrate a vSS network to a Hybrid or Full vDS solution
• Configure vSS and vDS settings using command line tools
• Analyze command line output to identify vSS and vDS configuration details
• Configure NetFlow
• Determine appropriate discovery protocol
  • CDP
  • LLDP

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Knowledge

• Explain the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) layout
  

Skills and Abilities

• Install and Configure PSA plug-ins
  
• Understand different multipathing policy functionalities
• Perform command line configuration of multipathing options
• Change a multipath policy
• Configure Software iSCSI port binding

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Knowledge

• Identify storage provisioning methods
  
• Identify available storage monitoring tools, metrics and alarms

Skills and Abilities

• Apply space utilization data to manage storage resources
  
• Provision and manage storage resources according to Virtual Machine requirements
• Understand interactions between virtual storage provisioning and physical storage provisioning
• Apply VMware storage best practices
• Configure Datastore Alarms
• Analyze Datastore Alarms and errors to determine space availability
• Configure Datastore Clusters

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Knowledge

• Identify RAID levels
• Identify supported HBA types
• Identify virtual disk format types

Skills and Abilities

• Determine use cases for and configure VMware DirectPath I/O
• Determine requirements for and configure NPIV
• Determine appropriate RAID level for various Virtual Machine workloads
• Apply VMware storage best practices
• Understand use cases for Raw Device Mapping
• Configure vCenter Server storage filters
• Understand and apply VMFS re-signaturing
• Understand and apply LUN masking using PSA-related commands
• Analyze I/O workloads to determine storage performance requirements
• Identify and tag SSD devices
• Administer hardware acceleration for VAAI
• Configure and administer profile-based storage
• Prepare storage for maintenance
• Upgrade VMware storage infrastructure

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