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VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage Multi-Site Content Library

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VCP6-DCV Study Guide is here to help you study towards VCP6-DCV (or delta) exam. Today’s topic is new in vSphere 6. Feature called vSphere Content Library was not present in vSphere 5.5 and made its apparition in vSphere 6 during its release. VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage Multi-Site Content Library is today’s lesson. vSphere […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 7.2 – Troubleshoot vSphere Storage and Network Issues

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Today’s topic of VCP6-DCV Study Guide is touching troubleshooting. In case something goes wrong and you loose connectivity to your application, you must probably troubleshoot the underlying VM first, the network second, but also a storage. When storage is under a pressure then your whole infrastructure just slows down and you might experience disconnections at […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 7.3 – Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades

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In today’s Objective we’ll discuss VCP6-DCV Objective 7.3 – Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades. You can check the whole VCP6-DCV Study Guide page for all topics there. You can also check the vSphere 6 page where you’ll find many how-to, videos, and tutorials about vSphere 6. VCP6-DCV exam validates you have the skills required to successfully install, […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 2.3 – Configure vSS and vDS Policies

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VCP6-DCV Study guide continues today by covering the VCP6-DCV Objective 2.3 – Configure vSS and vDS Policies. vSphere networking is one of the tough parts to know and this part is where any IT admins have difficulties. This chapter works hand in hand with the VCP6-DCV Objective 2.1 – Configure Advanced Policies/Features and Verify Network […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 8.1 – Deploy ESXi Hosts Using Autodeploy

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In today’s topic we will take a look at Autodeploy – VCP6-DCV Objective 8.1 – Deploy ESXi Hosts Using Autodeploy, which is quite large topic. Autodeploy allows provision dozens (or hundreds) physical hosts with ESXi images. It’s possible to manage large deployments where hosts are booted via network from a central Auto-deploy server.  In conjunction […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 8.2 – Customize Host Profile Settings

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In today’s Objective we’ll discuss VCP6-DCV Objective 8.2 – Customize Host Profile Settings. Host profiles are feature which is present in the vSphere enterprise plus licensing, and allows the to “uniformize” and/or push configuration changes to all hosts in the cluster. Host profiles are necessary when using VMware vSphere Autodeploy, which takes advantage of host […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 2.1 – Configure Advanced Policies/Features and Verify Network Virtualization Implementation

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Today’s VCP6-DCV topic Objective 2.1: Configure Advanced Policies/Features and Verify Network Virtualization Implementation is the core of virtualization networking. Together with 2 other chapters it covers all vSphere 6 networking. You can follow the VCP6-DCV study guide built through my VCP6-DCV page. When finished, there will be a PDF version which will get its proper […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 10.1 – Configure Advanced vSphere Virtual Machine Settings

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My VCP6-DCV Study Guide on my blog is getting crowdy with more and more objectives. Today’s topic is Objective 10.1 – Configure Advanced vSphere Virtual Machine Settings. We’ll be looking into some advanced options (with some tweaks) which are not only needed to pass the VCP6 exam, but are useful in real life. There is […]