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VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 - Network Virtualization Deployment (VCAP6-DC Deploy) Exam
This VCIX-NV tests your skills and abilities in implementation of a vSphere 6.x solution, including deployment, administration, optimization and troubleshooting.
Section 1 - Create and Deploy vSphere 6.x Infrastructure Components
Objective 1.1 - Perform Advanced ESXi Host Configuration
Skills and Abilities
- Configure and Manage Auto Deploy configurations
- Determine use case for Stateless vs Stateful installs
- Create / Modify rules and rule sets
- Create and associate Host Profiles for an Auto Deploy reference host
- Configure Kernel Boot Parameters for scripted install according to a deployment plan:
- Modify scripted weasel install (ks.cfg)
- Create / Modify scripted installation
- Configure Advanced System Settings according to a deployment plan:
- Edit System Swap / Scratch Configuration
- Configure ESXi host to use a central Syslog Server
- Manage/Edit the Core Dump configuration of an ESXi host
Tools
- vSphere Installation and Setup
- vCenter Server and Host Management
- What-s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
- vCenter Server 6.0 Deployment Guide
- vSphere Upgrade
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
- esxcli
Objective 1.2 - Deploy and Configure Core Management Infrastructure Components
Skills and Abilities
- Deploy vCenter core components according to a deployment plan:
- Deploy and Configure a Platform Services Controller (PSC):
- Determine use case for embedded vs external PSC
- Re-point a vCenter Server Appliance to another External PSC
- Deploy and Configure Identity Sources for Single Sign-On:
- Configure Single Sign-On users and groups
- Change Default domain for Single Sign-On
- List services registered with Single Sign-on
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server
- Deploy / Configure Enhanced Link Mode
- Deploy and Configure a Platform Services Controller (PSC):
- Manage / Configure vCenter components according to a deployment plan:
- Configure Global Permissions for vCenter services
- Configure Dump Collector service
- Configure the Syslog Collector / Syslog service
- Managing vCenter Server advanced configurations
Tools
Objective 1.3 - Deploy and Configure Update Manager Components
Skills and Abilities
- Deploy / Configure Update Manager components according to a deployment plan:
- Configure VUM Update Manager download service
- Configure a VUM shared repository
- Configure VUM smart rebooting
- Manually download updates to a VUM repository
- Create and modify VUM baseline groups
- Perform VUM orchestrated vSphere upgrades
- Troubleshoot Update Manager problem areas and issues
- Utilize Update Manager to reconfigure VUM settings
Tools
- Installing and Administering VMware Update Manager
- Reconfiguring VMware Update Manager
- vCenter Server 6.0 Deployment Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
Objective 1.4 - Perform Advanced Virtual Machine Configurations
Skills and Abilities
- Tune Virtual Machine disk controller configurations according to a deployment plan
- Configure .vmx file for advanced configuration scenarios
- Configure a virtual machine for Hot Add features
- Upgrade virtual machine hardware and VMware Tools
- Troubleshoot virtual machine deployment issues
Tools
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
- vSphere Troubleshooting
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
Section 2 - Deploy and Manage a vSphere 6.x Storage Infrastructure
Objective 2.1 - Implement Complex Storage Solutions
Skills and Abilities
- Determine use cases for Raw Device Mapping
- Apply storage presentation characteristics according to a deployment plan:
- VMFS re-signaturin
- LUN masking using PSA-related commands
- Create / Configure multiple VMkernels for use with iSCSI port binding
- Configure / Manage vSphere Flash Read Cache
- Create / Configure Datastore Clusters
- Upgrade VMware storage infrastructure
- Deploy virtual volumes
- Deploy and configure VMware Virtual SAN
- Configure / View VMFS locking mechanisms
- ATS-Only mechanism
- ATS_SCSI mechanism
- Configure Storage I/O Control to allow I/O prioritization
- Configure Storage Multi-pathing according to a deployment plan
Tools
Objective 2.2 - Manage Complex Storage Solutions
Skills and Abilities
- Identify and tag (mark) SSD and local devices
- Administer hardware acceleration for VAAI
- Configure, administer, and apply storage policies
- Prepare storage for maintenance
- Apply space utilization data to manage storage resources
- Provision and manage storage resources according to Virtual Machine requirements
- Configure datastore alarms, including Virtual SAN alarms
- Expand (Scale up / Scale Out) Virtual SAN hosts and diskgroups
Tools
Objective 2.3 - Troubleshoot Complex Storage Solutions
Skills and Abilities
- Analyze and resolve storage multi-pathing and failover issues
- Troubleshoot storage device connectivity
- Analyze and resolve Virtual SAN configuration issues
- Troubleshoot iSCSI connectivity issues
- Analyze and resolve NFS issues
- Troubleshoot RDM issues
Tools
- VMware-Virtual SAN Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual
- vSphere 6 Storage Guide
- vSphere 6 Resource Management Guide
- vSphere 6 Command Line Documentation
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
- esxcli
Section 3 - Deploy and Manage a vSphere 6.x Network Infrastructure
Objective 3.1 - Implement and Manage vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) Networks
Skills and Abilities
- Create and manage vSS components according to a deployment plan:
- VMkernel ports on standard switches
- Advanced vSS settings
- Configure TCP/IP stack on a host
- Create a custom TCP/IP stack
- Configure and analyze vSS settings using command line tools
Tools
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide v6.0
- vSphere Networking Guide v6.0
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples v6.0
- vSphere Client / Web Client
- esxcli
Objective 3.2 - Implement and Manage vSphere 6.x Distributed Switch (vDS) Networks
Skills and Abilities
- Deploy a LAG and migrate to LACP
- Migrate a vSS network to a hybrid or full vDS solution
- Analyze vDS settings using command line tools
- Configure Advanced vDS settings (NetFlow, QOS, etc.)
- Determine which appropriate discovery protocol to use for specific hardware vendors
- Configure VLANs/PVLANs according to a deployment plan
- Create / Apply traffic marking and filtering rules
Tools
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide v6.0
- vSphere Networking Guide v6.0
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples v6.0
- vSphere Client / Web Client
- vSphere CLI
- esxcli
Objective 3.3 - Scale a vSphere 6.x Network Implementation
Skills and Abilities
- Configure appropriate NIC teaming failover type and related physical network settings
- Determine and apply failover settings according to a deployment plan
- Configure and manage network I/O control 3
- Determine and configure vDS port binding settings according a deployment plan
Tools
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide v6.0
- vSphere Networking Guide v6.0
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples v6.0
- vSphere Troubleshooting Guide v6.0
- vSphere Client / Web Client
- vSphere CLI
- esxcli
Objective 3.4 - Troubleshoot a vSphere 6.x Network Implementation
Skills and Abilities
- Perform a vDS Health Check for teaming, MTU, mismatches, etc.
- Configure port groups to properly isolate network traffic
- Use command line tools to troubleshoot and identify configuration issues
- Use command line tools to troubleshoot and identify VLAN configurations
- Use DCUI network tool to correct network connectivity issue
Tools
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide v6.0
- vSphere Networking Guide v6.0
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples v6.0
- vSphere Troubleshooting Guide v6.0
- vSphere Client / Web Client
- vSphere CLI
- esxcli
Section 4 - Configure a vSphere Deployment for Availability and Scalability
Objective 4.1 - Implement and Maintain Complex vSphere Availability Solutions
Skills and Abilities
- Configure a HA cluster to meet resource and availability requirements
- Configure custom isolation response settings
- Configure VM Component Protection (VMCP)
- Configure HA redundancy settings:
- Management network
- Datastore heartbeat
- Network partitions
- Configure HA related alarms and analyze a HA cluster
- Configure VMware Fault Tolerance for single and multi-vCPU virtual machines
Tools
- vSphere 6.0 Availability Guide
- vSphere Networking Guide v6.0
- vSphere Client / Web Client
Objective 4.2 - Implement and Manage Complex DRS solutions
Skills and Abilities
- Configure DPM, including appropriate DPM threshold
- Configure / Modify EVC mode on an existing DRS cluster
- Create DRS and DPM alarms
- Configure applicable power management settings for ESXi hosts
- Configure DRS cluster for efficient/optimal load distribution
- Properly apply virtual machine automation levels based upon application requirements
- Administer DRS / Storage DRS
- Create DRS / Storage DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Configure advanced DRS / Storage DRS settings
- Configure and Manage vMotion / Storage vMotion
- Create and manage advanced resource pool configurations
Tools
- vSphere 6.0 Resource Management Guide
- vSphere 6.0 Monitoring and Performance Guide
- vSphere 6.0 Networking Guide
- vSphere Client / Web Client
Objective 4.3 - Troubleshoot vSphere clusters
Skills and Abilities
- Analyze and resolve DRS/HA faults
- Troubleshoot DRS/HA configuration issues
- Troubleshoot Virtual SAN/HA interoperability
- Resolve vMotion and storage vMotion issues
- Troubleshoot VMware Fault Tolerance
Tools
Section 5 - Configure a vSphere Deployment for Manageability
Objective 5.1 - Execute VMware Cmdlets and Customize Scripts Using PowerCLI
Skills and Abilities
- Install and configure vSphere PowerCLI
- Use basic and advanced PowerCLI Cmdlets to manage a vSphere deployment
- Analyze a sample script, then modify the script to perform a given action
- Use PowerCLI to configure and administer Auto Deploy (including Image Builder)
- Create a report from a PowerCLI script
Tools
Objective 5.2 - Implement and Maintain Host Profiles
Skills and Abilities
- Use Profile Editor to edit and / or disable policies
- Create and apply host profiles
- Use Host Profiles to deploy vDS
- Use Host Profiles to deploy vStorage policies
- Import / Export Host Profiles
- Manage Answer Files
- Configure stateful caching and installation for host deployment
Tools
- vSphere Installation and Setup
- vSphere Host Profiles v6.0
- vSphere Web Client
- PowerCLI
Objective 5.3 - Manage and analyze vSphere log files
Skills and Abilities
- Generate vSphere log bundles
- Configure and test centralized logging
- Analyze log entries to obtain configuration information
- Analyze log entries to identify and resolve issues
- Configure logging levels for vSphere
Tools
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide v6.0
- vSphere Troubleshooting Guide v6.0
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples v6.0
- vSphere Web Client
- VMware Syslog Collector
- ESXi Dump Collector
- esxcli
Objective 5.4 - Configure and manage Content Library
Skills and Abilities
- Create a Global User
- Create a Content Library
- Subscribe to a Content Library
- Configure a Content Library for space efficiency
- Synchronize a subscribed Content Library
Tools
Section 6 - Configure a vSphere Deployment for Performance
Objective 6.1 - Utilize Advanced vSphere Performance Monitoring Tools
Skills and Abilities
- Configure esxtop / resxtop custom profiles
- Evaluate use cases for and apply esxtop / resxtop Interactive, Batch and Replay modes
- Use vScsiStats to gather storage performance data
- Use esxtop / resxtop to collect performance data
- Given esxtop / resxtop output, identify relative performance data for capacity planning purposes
Tools
Objective 6.2 - Optimize Virtual Machine resources
Skills and Abilities
- Adjust Virtual Machine properties according to a deployment plan:
- Network configurations
- CPU configurations
- Storage configurations
- Troubleshoot Virtual Machine performance issues based on application workload
- Modify Transparent Page Sharing and large memory page settings
- Optimize a Virtual Machine for latency sensitive workloads
- Configure Flash Read Cache reservations
Tools
Section 7 - Configure a vSphere 6.x Environment for Recoverability
Objective 7.1- Deploy and manage vSphere Replication
Skills and Abilities
- Configure and manage a vSphere Replication infrastructure:
- Isolate vSphere Replication network traffic
- Enable data compression of vSphere Replication traffic
- Configure and manage vSphere Replication of virtual machines
- Analyze and resolve vSphere Replication issues:
- Storage configuration
- Multiple point in time snapshots
- Enabling vSphere Replication on VMs
Tools
Objective 7.2 - Deploy and Manage vSphere Data Protection
Skills and Abilities
- Create, edit and clone a vSphere Data Protection backup job
- Modify a preconfigured backup job.
- Backup and restore a Virtual Machine (file level restore, full VM backup)
- Create a replication job according to a deployment plan
- Configure a Backup Verification job to ensure integrity of restore points
Tools
Objective 7.3 - Backup and Recover vSphere Configurations
Skills and Abilities
- Backup and restore distributed switch configurations
- Backup and restore resource pool configurations
- Export Virtual Machines to OVA/OVF format
- Use a Host profile to recover an ESXi host configuration
Tools
Section 8 - Configure a vSphere 6.x Environment for Security
Objective 8.1 - Manage authentication and end-user security
Skills and Abilities
- Add/Edit Remove users on an ESXi host
- Configure vCenter Roles and Permissions according to a deployment plan
- Configure and manage Active Directory integration
- Analyze logs for security-related messages
- Enable and configure an ESXI Pass Phrase
- Disable the Managed Object Browser (MOB) to reduce attack surface
Tools
- vCenter Server and Host Management Guide v6.0
- vSphere Security Guide v6.0
- VMware vSphere vSphere 6.0 Hardening Guide
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
Objective 8.2 - Manage SSL certificates
Skills and Abilities
- Configure and manage VMware Certificate Authority
- Configure and manage VMware Endpoint Certificate Store
- Enable / Disable certificate checking
- Generate ESXi host certificates
- Replace default certificate with CA-signed certificate
- Configure SSL timeouts according to a deployment plan
Tools
Objective 8.3 - Harden a vSphere 6.x Deployment
Skills and Abilities
- Enable and configure ESXi Lockdown mode (Strict / Normal)
- Configure a user on the Lockdown Mode Exception Users list
- Customize SSH settings for increased security
- Enable strong passwords and configure password policies
- Configure vSphere hardening of virtual machines according to a deployment plan
Tools
- vCenter Server and Host Management Guide v6.0
- vSphere Security Guide v6.0
- vSphere 6.0 Hardening Guide
- VMware vSphere 6.0 Documentation Center - Security
- vSphere Client / vSphere Web Client
Exam Contributors
Sean Whitney
Christopher Morrow
Jonathan McDonald
Rob Philp
Steven Jones
Kenneth Van Voorhees
Bradley Mott
Andrew Ellwood
Evelyn Baymon-Boyd
Arantxa Duque Barrachina
Jeff Godfrey
Robin Murray
Garth Miller
Carla Gavalakis
Kevin Hagopian
Andrew Lytle
Michael Crane
VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Design Exam
This VCIX-NV tests your ability to develop a vSphere 6.x conceptual design given a set of customer requirements, determine the functional requirements needed to create a logical design, and architect a physical design using these elements.
Section 1 – Create a vSphere Conceptual Design
Objective 1.1 – Gather and analyze business requirements
Skills and Abilities
- Associate a stakeholder with the information that needs to be collected.
- Utilize inventory and assessment data from a current environment to define a baseline state.
- Analyze customer interview data to explicitly define customer objectives for a conceptual design
- Determine customer priorities for defined objectives.
- Ensure that Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability and Security (AMPRS) considerations are applied during the requirements gathering process.
- Given results of the requirements gathering process, identify requirements for a conceptual design.
- Categorize requirements by infrastructure qualities to prepare for logical design requirements.
Tools
Objective 1.2 – Gather and analyze application requirements
Skills and Abilities
- Gather and analyze application requirements for a given scenario.
- Determine the requirements for a set of applications that will be included in the design.
- Collect information needed in order to identify application dependencies.
- Given one or more application requirements, determine the impact of the requirements on the design.
Tools
- VMware TCO Calculator
- VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator Methodology
- Virtualizing Oracle with VMware
- Virtualizing Exchange with VMware
- Virtualize SharePoint with VMware vSphere
- Virtualizing Microsoft SQL on VMware vSphere
- SAP and VMware Virtualization
- Business and Financial Benefits of Virtualization: Customer Benchmarking Study
Objective 1.3 – Determine Risks, Requirements, Constraints and Assumptions
Skills and Abilities
- Differentiate between the concepts of risks, requirements, constraints, and assumptions.
- Given a statement, determine whether it is a risk, requirement, constraint, or an assumption.
- Analyze impact of VMware best practices to identified risks, constraints, and assumptions.
Tools
Section 2 – Create a vSphere 6.x Logical Design from an Existing Conceptual Design
Objective 2.1 – Map Business Requirements to a vSphere 6.x Logical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Analyze requirements for functional and non-functional elements.
- Build non-functional requirements into a specific logical design.
- Translate stated business requirements into a logical design.
- Incorporate the current state of a customer environment into a logical design.
Tools
Objective 2.2 – Map Service Dependencies
Skills and Abilities
- Evaluate dependencies for infrastructure and application services that will be included in a vSphere design.
- Create Entity Relationship Diagrams that map service relationships and dependencies.
- Analyze interfaces to be used with new and existing business processes.
- Determine service dependencies for logical components.
- Include service dependencies in a vSphere 6.x Logical Design.
- Analyze services to identify upstream and downstream service dependencies.
- Navigate logical components and their interdependencies and make decisions based upon all service relationships.
Tools
Objective 2.3 – Build Availability Requirements into a vSphere 6.x Logical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Evaluate which logical availability services can be used with a given vSphere solution.
- Differentiate infrastructure qualities related to availability.
- Describe the concept of redundancy and the risks associated with single points of failure
- Explain class of nines methodology
- Determine availability component of service level agreements (SLAs) and service level management processes
- Determine potential availability solutions for a logical design based on customer requirements.
- Create an availability plan, including maintenance processes.
- Balance availability requirements with other infrastructure qualities.
- Analyze a vSphere design and determine possible single points of failure.
Tools
Objective 2.4 – Build Manageability Requirements into a vSphere 6.x Logical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Evaluate which management services can be used with a given vSphere Solution.
- Differentiate infrastructure qualities related to management.
- Differentiate available command line-based management tools (PowerCLI, vMA etc.)
- Evaluate VMware Management solutions based on customer requirements.
- Build interfaces into the logical design for existing operations practices.
- Address identified operational readiness deficiencies
- Define Event, Incident and Problem Management practices.
- Analyze Release Management practices
- Determine request fulfillment and release management processes.
- Determine requirements for Configuration Management
- Define change management processes based on business requirements.
- Based on customer requirements, identify required reporting assets and processes
Tools
Objective 2.5 – Build Performance Requirements into a vSphere 6.x Logical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Evaluate logical performance considerations for a given vSphere solution.
- Differentiate infrastructure qualities related to performance.
- Analyze current performance, identify and address gaps when building the logical design
- Using a conceptual design, create a logical design that meets performance requirements
- Determine performance-related functional requirements based on given non-functional requirements and service dependencies.
- Define capacity management practices and create a capacity plan
- Incorporate scalability requirements into the logical design
- Determine a performance component for service level agreements and service level management processes.
Tools
Objective 2.6 – Build Recoverability Requirements into a vSphere 6.x Logical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Evaluate which logical recoverability services are available for a given vSphere solution.
- Differentiate infrastructure qualities related to recoverability.
- Determine Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solution options for a given vSphere Design.
- Given recoverability requirements, analyze services that will be impacted and provide a recovery plan for impacted services.
- Plan a data retention policy based on customer requirements.
Tools
Objective 2.7 – Build Security Requirements into a vSphere 6.x Logical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Evaluate which security services can be used with a given vSphere solution.
- Differentiate infrastructure qualities related to security.
- Build specific regulatory compliance requirements into the logical design.
- Analyze application and infrastructure security requirements.
- Build a role-based access model and map roles to services.
- Build a security policy based on existing security requirements and IT governance practices.
- Incorporate customer risk tolerance into the security policy.
- Assess the services that will be impacted and create an access management plan.
- Determine the proper security solution that would satisfy a regulatory requirement.
- Based on stated security requirements, analyze the current state for compliance/non-compliance.
Tools
Section 3 – Create a vSphere 6.x Physical Design from an Existing Logical Design
Objective 3.1 – Transition from a Logical Design to a vSphere 6.x Physical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Analyze design decisions and options selected from the logical design
- Determine impact of VMware best practices to identified risks, constraints, and assumptions in a given vSphere design.
- Based on business requirements, determine the appropriate roles for each staff member.
Tools
Objective 3.2 – Create a vSphere 6.x Physical Network Design from an Existing Logical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Analyze VLAN options with respect to virtual and physical switches.
- Given business requirements, determine the design for virtual network components:
- STP
- Jumbo Frames
- Load-balancing
- Trunking and link aggregation groups
- Evaluate network redundancy considerations for a given design.
- Analyze design for inclusion of Network I/O Control capabilities.
- Determine use case for multiple TCP/IP stacks in a given design.
- Based on given functional requirements for each service:
- Determine the most appropriate networking technologies for the design
- Implement the service based on the required infrastructure qualities (AMPRS.)
- Analyze design for appropriate network teaming and failover solution.
- Determine network security and firewall requirements for a virtual network design
- Based on service level requirements, determine appropriate network performance characteristics.
- Given a current network configuration as well as technical requirements and constraints, determine the appropriate virtual switch solution:
- vSphere Standard Switch
- vSphere Distributed Switch
- NSX
- Hybrid solutions
- Based on an existing logical design, determine appropriate host networking resources.
- Properly apply converged networking considering VMware best practices.
Tools
- vSphere Server and Host Management Guide
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Networking Guide
- Network Port Diagram for vSphere 6.x
- VMware Virtual SAN Network Design Guide
- Leveraging NIC Technology to Improve Network Performance in VMware vSphere
- Performance Evaluation of Network I/O Control in VMware vSphere 6
- vMotion Architecture, Performance and Best Practices in VMware vSphere 5
Objective 3.3 – Create a vSphere 6.x Physical Storage Design from an Existing Logical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Evaluate criteria, capabilities and limitations between storage types (Block, NAS, Object Based)
- In a given design, determine Storage Policy availability and performance characteristics
- Based on the logical design and given functional requirements, for each service:
- Determine the most appropriate storage technologies for the design
- Implement the service based on the required infrastructure qualities
- Ensure storage array capabilities are supported in a vSphere 6.x design:
- Active/Active, Active/Passive
- ALUA, VAAI, VASA
- PSA (including PSPs and SATPs)
- Based on service level requirements include VMware technologies in the design, such as:
- Storage I/O Control and Network I/O Control
- Storage Policies
- Storage vMotion
- Storage DRS
- Virtual SAN
- Given the functional requirements, size the storage for capacity, availability and performance, including:
- Datastores, RDMs, Virtual Disks
- Physical Storage (LUNs, Storage Tiering)
- Based on the logical design, select and incorporate an appropriate storage network into the physical design:
- Block (FC, iSCSI, FCoE, SAS)
- NAS (NFSv3, NFSv4)
- Object Based (Virtual SAN, Virtual Volumes
Tools
- What’s New: VMware Virtual SAN 6.0
- VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Design and Sizing Guide
- VMware Virtual SAN Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual
- The VMware Perspective on Software-Defined Storage
- vSphere Storage
- Resource Management Guide
- Virtual SAN TCO and Sizing Calculator
- What’s New: VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- VMware Virtual Machine File System: Technical Overview and Best Practices
Objective 3.4 – Determine Appropriate Compute Resources for a vSphere 6.x Physical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Analyze best practices with respect to CPU family choices.
- Evaluate NUMA and vNUMA with ESXi hosts and Virtual machines in a given design.
- Analyze the following in a vSphere design:
- Enhanced vMotion compatibility
- Implications of vSMP in virtual machines
- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) and large pages
- Resource overcommitment
- Based on the service catalog and given functional requirements:
- Determine the most appropriate compute technologies for the design
- Implement the service based on the required infrastructure qualities.
- Determine the impact of a technical design on the choice of server density:
- Scale Up/Out
- Auto Deploy
- Calculate the required number of nodes in an HA cluster based upon host failures and resource guarantees
- Evaluate the implications of using reservations, limits, and shares on the physical design.
- Specify the resource pool and vApp configuration based upon resource requirements.
- Size the following resources appropriately:
- Memory
- CPU
- I/O devices
- Internal storage
- Given a constraint to use existing hardware, determine suitability of the hardware for the design.
Tools
- vSphere Server and Host Management Guide
- What’s New in the VMware vSphere® 6.0 Platform
- vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
- vSphere Resource Management Guide
- Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.0
- VMware vCenter Server Performance and Best Practices
- Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere VMs
- Performance Characterization of Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere 6
- Microsoft Exchange 2013 on VMware Best Practices Guide
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide
- Interpreting esxtop statistics
Objective 3.5 – Determine Virtual Machine Configuration for a vSphere 6.x Physical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Analyze the use of an RDM or a virtual disk for a given VM.
- Evaluate Virtual Machine memory management techniques (ballooning, compression, swapping) in a given vSphere design.
- Based on business requirements, determine the design significance of VM Swap location.
- Determine the latency sensitivity requirements of a given virtual machine workload.
- Evaluate virtual machine features based on the logical, functional and application requirements.
- Use VMware best practices to size virtual machines according to application requirements.
- Determine if reservations, shares, and limits are necessary.
- Based on an existing logical design, determine virtual hardware options.
- Build a Content Library of appropriate virtual machine offerings (e.g. templates, OVFs, ISOs.)
- Determine appropriate use cases for vApps.
- Evaluate the suitability of using VMware FT or 3rd party clustering products (e.g. Microsoft Clustering, etc.) based on application requirements.
- Determine the impact of scheduled guest activities (e.g. anti-virus, backup, etc) to the design.
- Evaluate vFlash read cache requirements in a given design.
Tools
- Virtual Machine Administration Guide
- Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere VMs
- Virtualizing a Windows Active Directory Domain Infrastructure
- Guest Operating System Installation Guide
- vSphere Resource Management Guide
- Understanding Memory Management in VMware vSphere 6.0
Objective 3.6 – Determine Data Center Management Options for a vSphere 6.x Physical Design
Skills and Abilities
- Based on business requirements, determine client access options in a vSphere solution.
- Analyze business requirements when integrating vSphere with other VMware solutions.
- Evaluate the impact of the VMware Certificate Authority and the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store to the design.
- Based on the logical design and given functional requirements:
- Determine the most appropriate datacenter management options for the design.
- Implement the service based on the required infrastructure qualities.
- Analyze cluster requirements:
- Availability requirements for HA and FT
- Performance requirements for DRS and vMotion
- Storage performance requirements for SDRS and Storage vMotion
- Determine appropriate vCenter Server design and sizing requirements:
- vCenter Server Enhanced Linked Mode
- vCenter Server virtual appliance vs vCenter Server for Windows
- Platform Services Controller
- Evaluate access control methodologies for creating roles and assignment of users to roles.
- Determine proper structure for access control settings (i.e. folders, resource pools, etc.)
- Develop appropriate host and virtual machine deployment options.
- Include in the design appropriate technologies for:
- Asset management
- Event, incident and problem management
- Logging, monitoring and reporting
Tools
Exam Contributors
Andrew Ellwood
Andrew Sturniolo
Arantxa Duque Barrachina
Bradley Mott
Brian Proteau
Carla Gavalakis
Chris Halstead
Chris McCain
Christopher Morrow
Evelyn Baymon-Boyd
Garth Miller
Jack McMichael
Jacy Townsend
James Walker
Jeff Godfrey
Jeff Hall
Jeffrey Taylor
Jon Hall
Jonathan McDonald
Kenneth Van Voorhees
Mark Jones
Matt Vanderbeld
Michael Crane
Mostafa Khalil
Nathan Small
Ray Heffer
Rob Philp
Robin Murray
Sean Whitney
Steven Jones
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Lots of learning opportunities with CISCO Certification front at CCIE Home, Mumbai.
I would like to thanks Prasad Sir, he is a great CCIE Trainer as well as a nice person. Also would like to thanks Arshad Bhai , Dhan Singh for giving me opportunity to participate in CCIE R&S bootcamp. Mudassir Hasnain
3/31/2017 - I still remember the day when I visited CCIE HOME just for an enquiry last year and I was just comparing this with an another institute where I went earlier for enquiry. Next day I took a decision that I'll go with CCIE HOME and yes, that decision literally changed my life and filled me with tons of confidence and gave me a platform from where I can fly high and progress. It always feel special when you're around hepta CCIE's and it feels like as if you're in different world surrounded by professional people. I'll be back for another track
Ankur Malik
3/22/2017 - I learned so much from CCIE HOME. Their labs were also brutal. You (Kamlesh) taught me so much. Besides the technologies, I learned from you the value of configuring accurately, verifying everything, reading slowly to catch all of the details. Thank you very much CCIE HOME and team. Wish you all the best and looking forward to be associated with CCIE HOME for the 2nd CCIE. Also please advice which CCIE track will be the best for me.
Prasad Manerikar
3/20/2017 - Nice to see CCIE homes growing faster still remember those days as we are learning in a one room and now that room has become an ocean, please do remember us when we need you, thank you. and all the best. 🙂
Vishal Jadhav
3/17/2017 - One of the best training center i have seen India. Many of my team members have been mentored and trained by Hepta CCIE's. I also had the opportunity to work with one of the Hepta CCIE's in my current organisation. I must say they thorough professionals in their work.
Seema Lachhani
3/16/2017