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VCP6-DCV Objective 8.2 – Customize Host Profile Settings

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2017

How to check Host profile compliance

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV Objective 8.2 - Customize Host Profile Settings, VCP6-DCV study Guide

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 31, 2017

Create vSphere vDS

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 2.1 - Configure Advanced Policies/Features and Verify Network Virtualization Implementation, VCP6-DCV study Guide

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2017

VMs options through vSphere Web client

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Configure Advanced vSphere Virtual Machine Settings, VCP6-DCV

VCP6-DCV Objective 2.2 – Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 31, 2017

Enable or Disable NIOC - VCP6-DCV

VCP6-DCV Study time… In no particular order I start covering VCP6-DCV section of the VMware blueprint to help out folks learning towards VCP6-DCV VMware certification exam. Due to VMware recertification policy the VCP exam has now an expiration date. You can renew by passing delta exam while still holding current VCP or pass VCAP. If […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Certification VCP, Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC), NIOC, VMware Network I/O control

How to Protect VMs In Your Datacenter Without Having Remote Site and Without Ruining Yourself?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Many solution for DR protection of the OnPrem VMs running in your primary datacenter exists and I’m sure many of you have already asked this question – How to Protect VMs In Your Datacenter? There are some solutions which are more/less optimizing the costs. Some more, some less. Today we’ll have a look at new […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: DR costs, How to Protect VMs In Your Datacenter, Onecloud

VCP6-DCV Objective 5.1 – Configure Advanced/Multilevel Resource Pools

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2017

Resource Pools Attributes

Today’s VCP6-DCV topic will touch resource pools. Resource pools aren’t folders, remember? Hey, resource pools are cool when used sparingly, not with 3 levels of inception…  VCP6-DCV exam blueprint has this chapter about resource pools and it’s important to know the insight out – VCP6-DCV Objective 5.1 – Configure Advanced/Multilevel Resource Pools. The whole exam […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 5.1 - Configure Advanced/Multilevel Resource Pools

VCP6-DCV Objective 3.4 – Perform Advanced VMFS and NFS Configurations and Upgrades

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2017

SDRS Maintenance Mode

This post covers VCP6-DCV Objective 3.4 – Perform Advanced VMFS and NFS Configurations and Upgrades. Important storage chapter where you’ll learn the inside out about VMFS, datastores, management or enable/disable vStorage API for array integration. For whole exam coverage I created a dedicated VCP6-DCV page which follows the exam’s blueprint. If you just want to […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 3.4 - Perform Advanced VMFS and NFS Configurations and Upgrades

VCP6-DCV Objective 9.2 – Configure Advanced vSphere DRS Features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

VM/host DRS rules

VMware VCP6-DCV certification exam might seems tough exam you can’t fake. True, you have to know your stuff. But we like technology, we like VMware and so we like this exam. Many folks need to re-certify after expiring their VCP 4 or VCP 5. For new people who learning towards this exam I’m currently working […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 9.2 - Configure Advanced vSphere DRS Features

VCP6-DCV Objective 9.1 – Configure Advanced vSphere HA Features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

vSphere HA component protection

VMware VCP6-DCV certification exam is kind of holy grail as it’s an exam you can’t fake. You have to know your stuff. Many folks also need to re-certify after expiring their VCP 4 or VCP 5. For current VCP5-DCV holders it’s also possible to pass the VCP6-DCV delta exam, which has 45 questions only. Today’s topc? […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 9.1 - Configure Advanced vSphere HA Features

VCP6-DCV Objective 3.5 – Setup and Configure Storage I/O Control

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 24, 2017

Storage IO control

This post will cover VCP6-DCV Objective 3.5 – Setup and Configure Storage I/O Control. Storage I/O is one of the features that are overlooked. But Storage I/O can “heal” part of your storage performance problems by setting a priority at the VM level (VMDK). You know the “noisy neighbor story”…. When you enable Storage I/O […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 3.5 - Setup and Configure Storage I/O Control

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