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VMware VCP 6.7-DCV – Objective 1.7 – Describe and identify resource pools and use cases

August 28, 2020 by Samuel Mitchell, posted in VMware

The following notes will assist you to prepare for this objective:

Resource management is an essential skills for passing VCP-DCV
- What resource are you being asked to control?
- Different resources have different controls
Know the resource pool settings
- You need to be able to select the right settings for a scenario
- Proportional share allocation
Why use resource pools

Reference:

vSphere Resource Guide pdf – Chapter 10 – Managing Resource Pools

VMware VCP 6.7-DCV – Objective 1.6 – Describe and differentiate among vSphere, HA, DRS, and SDRS functionality

January 3, 2020 by Samuel Mitchell, posted in VMware

The following notes will assist you to prepare for this objective:

HA has come a long way, don’t rely on legacy knowledge of HA to meet objective
Learn the newer features, pre-reqs and limitations of:
- Proactive HA
- Orchestrated Restart
- Fault Tolerance (FT) vSMP
HA can’t work around everything
- For example datastore connectivity loss or unable to satisfy reservation
Ensure you can explain the basic modes of DRS
- Disable, Manual, Partial, Full Automated, per-VM
DRS has come a long way
- Predictive DRS
- Limitations of vMotion have been overcome
What are the vMotion pre-reqs?
- CPU compatibility
- Network configuration
- Compatible virtual hardware
What virtual hardware options can and cannot be migrated with DRS?
SDRS often gets overlooked
- Remember it has 2 dimensions to optimization
  - Space utilization & I/O latency
  - What are you being asked in the question?

Reference:

vSphere Availability Guide pdf

vSphere Resource Guide pdf

Brian Graf Blog – https://www.brianjgraf.com/2016/10/17/vsphere-6-5-vsphere-ha-whats-new-part-3-orchestrated-restart/

VCP65-DCV – Objective 7.5 – Troubleshoot HA and DRS Configurations and Fault Tolerance

August 1, 2018August 1, 2018 by Samuel Mitchell, posted in VMware

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in covering the main information that is needed to know the topics in this objective: