Author: Samuel Mitchell

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in covering the main information that is need to know the section:

1. Managing storage I/O Resources
2. VMware KB 1008113 – SIOC

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

1. About RAW device mapping
2. RAW device mapping characteristics
3. NFS Protocol and ESXi
4. Change the DCSI Bus Sharing Configuration
5. Configure Microsoft Cluster for High Availability
6. VMware KB 1034165 – multi-writer flag
7. Place a Datastore in maintenance mode
8. Working with Datastore

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

1. VMware PSP
2. Pluggable storage architecture PSA deep dive parts 1 and 2 (cormachogan.com)
3. esxcli (command)
4. Multipathing considerations
5. Storage Array Type Plugin (SATP)
6. Path Selection Policy (PSP)
7. Permanent Device Loss (PDL)
8. All Path Down (APD)
9. Identifying Device connectivity problems
10. Customizing Round-Robin Setup (CLI)
11. Configuration settings for value devices (blogs.vmware.com)
12. Managing Claim Rules (CLI)
13. Path Scanning and Claim
14. Adding Multipathing Claim Rules
15. Setting Up a Path Selection Policy
16. Default Policies provided by Vmware

The following reference material from the VSAN 6.2 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

1. Creating and deleting a VSAN Cluster
2. Adding Disk Group
3. Choosing the correct VSA maintenance mode option (blogs.vmware.com)
4. Vmware KB 2064240 (kb.vmware.com)
5. vSAN 6.6 online health check performance improvements (blogs.vmware.com)
6. Monitoring Virtual SAN
7. How to understand space requirements for FTT with RAID-1 and vSAN (xiaoxiaoke.wordpress.com)
8. Working Virtual Volumes
9. VSAN concepts
10. Using the virtual SAN ISCSI target services
11. vSAN and vvols (cormachogan.com)
12. Using storage providers
13. Managing Fault Domains in Virtual SAN
14. Protocol endpoints
15. Storage Policy Based Management

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

1. Working with Datastore
2. NFS Protocol and ESXi
3. Using Kerberos for NFS 4.1
4. NFS Storage Guidelines and Requirements
5. Working with VVolves
6. Virtual Volumes and Storage Protocols
7. Booting ESXi from FC
8. Booting from Fiber Channel SAN Requirement
9. Requirements and Considerations for software FCOE boot
10. Managing Fault Domains in Virtual SAN Cluster (vSAN)

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

1. vSphere Network Guide Chapter 11
2. Table 11.1 – NIOC Versions
3. Net.IOControlPnicOptOut
4. Bandwidth Allocation for VM traffic

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

1. Import a vSphere Distributed Switch Configuration
2. know the commands:

   • esxcli network

   • esx-cfg-vswitch

3. Chapter 3 – vSphere 6.5 networking guide
4. Migrating VM to or from a vDistributed Switch
5. Migrating VM Networking to the vDistributed Switch
6. LACP Support on a vDistributed Switch
7. Configure NIC Teaming
8. Deep Dive vSphere Networking (blogs.jgriffiths.org)
9. What is beacon probing? (VMware KB 1005577)
10. EST – External Switch Tagging (vlan)
11. VST – Virtual Switch Tagging (vSwitch tag)
12. VGT – Virtual Guest Tagging (VM Tagging)
13. Edit the traffic shaping Policy on a Distributed Port Group or Distributed Port
14. VMware KB 1038827
15. What is a jumbo frame in ethernet (www.slashroot.in)
16. vSphere Networking Rollback
17. Requirements for Migration between vCenter Server Instance
18. Host Configuration for vMotion
19. vSphere vMotion Networking Requirements
20. Configuration Maximum Guide
21. Create a Custom TCP/IP stack
22. Overriding the default gateway of a VMkernel adapter
23. Setting up vmkernel networking
24. vSphere 5.1/5.5 Port mirroring (virtualized-awesome.weebly.com)
25. Port Mirroring Session Types
26. Configure the Netflow settings of a vSphere Distributed Switch

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

1. Virtual Disk Encryption
2. UEFI Secure boot for ESXi Host
3. Enable or disable UEFI Secure boot for a Virtual Machine
4. VMTools installation configuration security considerations (WP)
5. Securing Virtual Machine
6. Disable Copy and Paste Operations Between Guest Operating System and Remote Console
7. Virtual Machine Security Best Practices
8. Encrypted vSphere vMotion

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

1. vCenter Server Platform Service Controller Deployment Types
2. Understanding vSphere Domains, Domain Names and Sites
3. Configure vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Sources
4. Use VMCA as an Intermediate Certificate Authority
5. Disable and Enable vCenter Single Sign-On Users
6. Add a User to the System.Configuration.BashShellAdministrators Group
7. Edit the vCenter Single Sign-On Password Policy
8. Configure a Host to Use Active Directory
9. Set up the Key Management Server Cluster
10. Encryption Process Flow
11. VMware vSphere 6.5 VM encryption details (VLADAN.FR)