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- Section 1.1 – Implement and Manage complex storage
- 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 resignaturing
- 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 (mounting/un-mounting)
- Upgrade VMware storage infrastructure
- Section 1.2 – Manage storage capacity in a vSphere environment
- 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
- Section 1.3 -Configure and manage complex multipathing and PSA plugins
- 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 (now via GUI)
- Section 2.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Networking
Determine use cases for and apply IPv6Configure NetQueue- 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
- Section 2.2 – Configure and maintain VLANs, PVLANs and VLAN settings
- 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
- Section 2.3 – Deploy and maintain scalable virtual networking
- 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 port groups to properly isolate network traffic
- Section 2.4 – Administer vNetwork Distributed Switch settings
- Understand the use of command line tools to configure appropriate vDS settings on an ESXi host (ESX is no longer included)
- Determine use cases for and apply Port Binding settings
- Configure Live Port Moving
- Given a set of network requirements, identify the appropriate distributed switch technology to use
- Configure and administer vSphere Network I/O Control
- Use command line tools to troubleshoot and identify configuration items from an existing vDS
- Section 3.1 – Tune and Optimise vSphere performance
- Tune ESXi host memory configuration
- Tune ESXi host networking configuration
- Tune ESXi host CPU configuration
- Tune ESXi host storage configuration
- Configure and apply advanced ESXi host attributes
- Configure and apply advanced Virtual Machine attributes
- Configure advanced cluster attributes
Tune and optimize NUMA controls
- Section 3.2 – Optimize virtual machine resources
- Tune Virtual Machine memory configurations
- Tune Virtual Machine networking configurations
- Tune Virtual Machine CPU configurations
- Tune Virtual Machine storage configurations
- Calculate available resources
- Properly size a Virtual Machine based on application workload
- Modify large memory page settings
- Understand appropriate use cases for CPU affinity
- Configure alternate virtual machine swap locations
- Section 3.3 – Implement and maintain complex DRS solutions
- Understand the DRS / storage DRS migration algorithms, the Load Imbalance Metrics, and their impact on migration recommendations (updated to add storage DRS and Load Imbalance metrics)
- Properly configure BIOS and management settings to support DPM
- Test DPM to verify proper configuration
- Configure appropriate DPM Threshold to meet business requirements
- Configure EVC using appropriate baseline
- Change the EVC mode on an existing DRS cluster
- Create DRS and DPM alarms
- Configure applicable power management settings for ESXi hosts
- Properly size virtual machines and clusters for optimal DRS efficiency
- Properly apply virtual machine automation levels based upon application requirements
- Create and administer ESXi host and Datastore Clusters
- Administer DRS / Storage DRS
Section 3.4 -Perform capacity planning in a vSphere environmentthis section is no longer included
- Section 3.4 – Utilize advanced vSphere Performance Monitoring tools
- Configure esxtop/resxtop custom profiles
- Determine 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
- Section 4.1 – Implement and maintain complex VMware HA solutions
- Calculate host failure requirements
- Configure customized isolation response settings
- Configure HA redundancy
- Management Network
- Datastore Heartbeat
- Network partitions
- Configure HA related alarms and monitor an HA cluster
- Create a custom slot size configuration
- Understand interactions between DRS and HA
Create an HA solution that ensures primary node distribution across sites- Analyze vSphere environment to determine appropriate HA admission control policy
- Analyze performance metrics to calculate host failure requirements
- Analyze Virtual Machine workload to determine optimum slot size
- Analyze HA cluster capacity to determine optimum cluster size
- Section 4.2 – Deploy and test VMware FT
- 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
- Prepare the infrastructure for FT compliance
- Test FT failover, secondary restart, and application fault tolerance in a FT Virtual Machine
Section 4.3 – Configure a vSphere environment to support MSCS Clustering- this section is no longer included
Section 4.4 – Deploy and maintain vCenter Heartbeatthis section is no longer included
- Section 5.1 -Manage host profiles
- 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
- Section 5.2 -Deploy and Manage complex Update Manager environments
- 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 groups
- Troubleshoot Update Manager problem areas and issues
- Generate database reports using MS Excel or MS SQL
- Upgrade vApps using Update Manager
- Utilize Update Manager PowerCLI to export baselines for testing
- Utilize the Update Manager Utility to reconfigure vUM settings
- Section 6.1 – Configure, manage and analyse vSphere log files
- Generate vCenter Server and ESXi log bundles
Use vicfg‐syslog to configure centralized logging on ESX/ESXi HostsConfigure the vMA appliance as a log hostUse vilogger to enable/disable log collection on the vMA applianceUse vilogger to configure log rotation and retention- Use esxcli system syslog to configure centralized logging on ESXi hosts
- Test centralized logging configuration
- Analyze log entries to obtain configuration information
- Analyze log entries to identify and resolve issues
- Install and configure VMware syslog Collector and ESXi Dump Collector
- Section 6.2 – Troubleshoot CPU and memory performance
- Troubleshoot ESXi host and Virtual Machine CPU performance issues using appropriate metrics
- Troubleshoot ESXi host and Virtual Machine memory performance issues using appropriate metrics
- Use Hot-Add functionality to resolve identified Virtual Machine CPU and memory performance issues
- Section 6.3 -Troubleshoot Network Performance and connectivity
- Utilize net-dvs to troubleshoot vNetwork Distributed Switch configurations
- Utilize vSphere CLI commands to troubleshoot ESXi network configurations (was Utilize vi-cfg commands…)
Configure a network packet analyzer in a vSphere environment- Troubleshoot Private VLANs
- Troubleshoot vmkernel related network configuration issues (was Troubleshoot Service Console and vmkernel…)
- Troubleshoot DNS and routing related issues
- Use esxtop/resxtop to identify network performance problems
Use CDP and/or network hints to identify connectivity issues- Analyze troubleshooting data to determine if the root cause for a given network problem originates in the physical infrastructure or vSphere environment
- Configure and administer Port Mirroring
- Utilize Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) and ESXi Shell to troubleshoot, configure, and monitor ESXi networking
- Section 6.4 – Troubleshoot storage performance and connectivity
- Use esxcli to troubleshoot multipathing and PSA-related issues (was Use vi-cfg* and esxcli…)
- Use esxcli to troubleshoot VMkernel storage module configurations (was Use vi-cfg* and esxcli…)
- Use esxcli to troubleshoot iSCSI related issues (was Use vi-cfg* and esxcli…)
- Troubleshoot NFS mounting and permission issues
- Use esxtop/resxtop and vscsiStats to identify storage performance issues
- Configure and troubleshoot VMFS datastores using vmkfstools
- Troubleshoot snapshot and resignaturing issues
- Analyze log files to identify storage and multipathing problems
- Section 6.5 – Troubleshoot vCenter Server and ESXi host management
- Troubleshoot vCenter Server service and database connection issues
- Troubleshoot the ESXi firewall (was Troubleshoot the ESX firewall)
- Troubleshoot ESXi host management and connectivity issues (was ESX host management)
- Determine the root cause of a vSphere management or connectivity issue
- Utilize Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) and ESXi Shell to troubleshoot, configure, and monitor an environment
- Section 7.1 – Secure ESXi hosts
- Add/Edit Remove users/groups on an ESXi host
- Customize SSH settings for increased security
- Enable/Disable certificate checking
- Generate ESXi host certificates (was Generate ESX host certificates)
- Enable ESXi lockdown mode
- Replace default certificate with CA-signed certificate
- Configure SSL timeouts
- Configure vSphere Authentication Proxy (was Configure ESX Web proxy)
- Enable strong passwords and configure password policies
- Identify methods for hardening virtual machines
- Analyze logs for security-related messages
- Manage Active Directory integration
- Section 7.2 – Configure and Maintain the ESXi firewall(was ESX)
- Enable/Disable pre-configured services (was ESX not ESXi)
- Configure service behavior automation (was ESX not ESXi)
- Open/Close ports in the firewall (was ESX not ESXi)
- Create a custom service (was ESX not ESXi)
- Set firewall security level(was ESX not ESXi)
Section 7.3 – Deploy and Administer vShield ZonesThis section is no longer included
- Section 8.1 – Execute VMware cmdlets and customize scripts using PowerCLI
- Install and configure vSphere PowerCLI
- Install and configure Update Manager PowerShell Library
- Use basic and advanced Cmdlets to manage VMs and ESXi Hosts (was ESX hosts)
- Use Web Service Access Cmdlets
- Use Datastore and Inventory Providers
- Given a sample script, modify the script to perform a given action
Section 8.2 -Administer vCenter OrchestratorThis section is no longer included
- Section 8.2 – Administer vSphere using the vSphere Management Assistant
- Install and configure vMA
- Add/Remove target servers
- Perform updates to the vMA
- Use vmkfstools to manage VMFS datastores
- Use vmware-cmd to manage VMs
- Use esxcli to manage ESXi Host configurations
- Troubleshoot common vMA errors and conditions
- Section 9.1 – Install ESXi hosts with custom settings(was ESX)
- Create/Edit Image Profiles
- Install/uninstall custom drivers
- Configure advanced bootloader options
- Configure kernel options
- Given a scenario, determine when to customize a configuration
Section 9.2 – Plan and execute scripted installationsThis section is no longer included
- Section 9.2 (new) – Install ESXi hosts using AutoDeploy
- Install the Auto Deploy Server
- Utilize Auto Deploy cmdlets to deploy ESXi hosts
- Configure Bulk Licensing
- Provision/Reprovision ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy
- Configure an Auto Deploy reference host
Section 9.3 – Configure vCenter Server Linked ModeThis section is no longer included