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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 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

VCP6-DCV Objective 3.1 – Manage vSphere Storage Virtualization

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 11, 2021

How to create thin provissioned disk - vSphere 6

VMware VCP certification exam for vSphere 6 is now available and you can register for the exam. We’ll start to cover VCP6-DCV sections to help out folks learning towards VCP6-DCV VMware certification exam. Today’s topic is VCP6-DCV Objective 3.1 – Manage vSphere Storage Virtualization. It’s quite large chapter but it’ broken into several sections, always […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 3.1 - Manage vSphere Storage Virtualization

VCP6-DCV Objective 1.2 – Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and vSphere Virtual Machines

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 31, 2017

Network security policy - Portgroup level

This post covers VCP6-DCV Objective 1.2 – Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and vSphere Virtual Machines. A very interesting chapter indeed, where we cover all the “locks” which an admin can put in place to secure his/here environment. And you don’t have to be Linux expert as all this is done without much difficulty! For whole […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: and vSphere Virtual Machines, vCenter Server, VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 1.2 - Secure ESXi

VCP6-DCV Objective 3.2 – Configure Software-defined Storage

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 21, 2017

Creating and managing VM storage policies

VCP6-DCV (data center virtualization) VMware certification exam was recently released and the registration will be soon available. The term software-defined, you can love or hate this term, but Software-defined storage is here, and this post covers VCP6-DCV Objective 3.2 – Configure Software-defined Storage. Hopefully, it will help you to learn this topic towards the exam… For […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DCV, VCP6-DCV Objective 3.2, VCP6-DCV Objective 3.2 - Configure Software-defined Storage

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