VCAP5-DCA Archive

Knowledge Identify firewall access rules for Update Manager Skills and Abilities Install and configure Update Manager Download Service Configure a shared repository Configure smart rebooting Manually download updates to a repository Perform orchestrated vSphere upgrades Create and modify baseline...

Skills and Abilities Use Profile Editor to edit and/or disable policies Create sub-profiles Use Host Profiles to deploy vDS Use Host Profiles to deploy vStorage policies Manage Answer Files

Knowledge Identify VMware FT hardware requirements Identify VMware FT compatibility requirements Skills and Abilities Modify VM and ESXi host settings to allow for FT compatibility Use VMware best practices to prepare a vSphere environment for FT Configure FT logging...

Knowledge Identify the three admission control policies for HA Identify heartbeat options and dependencies Skills and Abilities  Calculate host failure requirements Configure customized isolation response settings Configure HA redundancy Management Network Datastore Heartbeat Network partitions Configure HA related alarms...

Knowledge Identify hot keys and fields used with resxtop/esxtop Identify fields used with vscsiStats Skills and Abilities Configure esxtop/resxtop custom profiles Determine use cases for and apply esxtop/resxtop Interactive, Batch and Replay modes Use vscsiStats to gather storage performance...

Knowledge Explain DRS / storage DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules Identify required hardware components to support DPM Identify EVC requirements, baselines and components Understand the DRS / storage DRS migration algorithms, the Load Imbalance Metrics, and their impact on...

Knowledge Compare and contrast virtual and physical hardware resources Identify VMware memory management techniques Identify VMware CPU load balancing techniques Identify pre-requisites for Hot Add features Skills and Abilities Tune Virtual Machine memory configurations Tune Virtual Machine networking configurations...

Knowledge Describe the relationship between vDS and the vSS Skills and Abilities Understand the use of command line tools to configure appropriate vDS settings on an ESXi host Determine use cases for and apply Port Binding settings Configure Live...

Knowledge Identify VMware NIC Teaming policies Identify common network protocols Skills and Abilities Understand the NIC Teaming failover types and related physical network settings Determine and apply Failover settings Configure explicit failover to conform with VMware best practices Configure...

Knowledge Identify types of VLANs and PVLANs Skills and Abilities Determine use cases for and configure VLAN Trunking Determine use cases for and configure PVLANs Use command line tools to troubleshoot and identify VLAN configurations