Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide: Everything you need to achieve 2V0-622 certification – with exam tips and exercises - Softcover

Mauro, Andrea; Valsecchi, Paolo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789340470 ISBN 13: 9781789340471

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Deploy and configure vSphere infrastructure and learn to effectively create and administer vSphere virtual machines

Key Features

• Implement advanced network virtualization techniques
• Configure and administer vSphere high availability
• Enhance your data center virtualization skills with practice questions and mock tests

Book Description

This exam guide enables you to install, configure, and manage the vSphere 6.5 infrastructure in all its components: vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines, while helping you to prepare for the industry standard certification.

This data center book will assist you in automating administration tasks and enhancing your environment's capabilities. You will begin with an introduction to all aspects related to security, networking, and storage in vSphere 6.5. Next, you will learn about resource management and understand how to back up and restore the vSphere 6.5 infrastructure. As you advance, you will also cover troubleshooting, deployment, availability, and virtual machine management. This is followed by two mock tests that will test your knowledge and challenge your understanding of all the topics included in the exam.

By the end of this book, you will not only have learned about virtualization and its techniques, but you'll also be prepared to pass the VCP6.5-DCV (2V0-622) exam.

What you will learn

• Deploy and configure vSphere infrastructure
• Create and administer vSphere virtual machines
• Optimize, secure, and troubleshoot all vSphere components
• Implement vSphere HA on a vSAN cluster
• Understand how to back up and restore your vSphere 6.5 infrastructure
• Test your understanding of key concepts required through sample questions

Who this book is for

If you are interested in achieving Data Center Virtualization certification, this is the book is for you. You will also benefit from this book if you are a system administrator or network engineer. Some prior knowledge of virtualization can assist you in understanding key concepts covered in the book.

About this title

About the Authors

Andrea Mauro has 20 years of experience in IT, both in industry and the academic world. He currently works as a solution architect at Assyrus (an Italian IT company). He is responsible for infrastructure implementation, architecture design, upgrades, and migration processes. He is a virtualization and storage architect, specializing in VMware, but also Microsoft, Citrix, and Linux solutions. His first virtualized solution in production was built around ESX 2.x several years ago. His professional certifications include several VMware certifications (VCP-DCV, vSAN Specialist, VCIX-DCV, VCIX-NV, VCDX-DCV), but also other vendor-related certifications. He is also a VMware vExpert (2010-18), Nutanix NTC (2014-18), and Veeam Vanguard (2015-18).

Paolo Valsecchi has more than 20 years, experience in the IT industry, and he currently works as a system engineer mainly focused on VMware vSphere, Microsoft technologies, and backup/DR solutions. His current role involves covering all the tasks related to ensuring IT infrastructures' availability and data integrity (implementation, upgrade, and administration). He holds the VMware VCP5/6.5-DCV and Veeam VMCE professional certifications, and he has been awarded the VMware vExpert title (2015-18) and the Veeam Vanguard title (2016-18).

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789340470
• ISBN 13: 9781789340471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 598