VCP65-DCV – Objective 9.1 – Configure vSphere HA Cluster Features

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:

  1. vSphere 6.5 What’s new HA (yellow-bricks.com)
  2. Create and Using vSphere HA Clusters
  3. Best Practices for Networking
  4. vSphere HA Advanced Options
  5. What’s new in vSphere 6.5 Host Resource Management and Operations (VMware Blogs)
  6. vSphere HA Admission Control
  7. Cluster Resources Percentage Admission Control
  8. Slot Policy Admission Control
  9. vCenter HA datastore heartbeats (theithollow.com)
  10. vSphere HA VM Monitoring back to basics (VMware Blogs)
  11. VM Component Protection (VMCP) [VMware Blogs)
  12. Using vSphere HA with Virtual SAN
  13. Using vSphere HA and DRS together

 

 

VCP65-DCV – Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere DRS and Storage DRS Clusters

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:

  1. Using VM-Host Infinity Rules
  2. vSphere 6.5 DRS Performance
  3. vSphere 6.5 DRS What’s new part 1
  4. vSphere 6.5 DRS What’s new part 2 – Predictive DRS
  5. vSphere 6.5 DRS What’s new part 3 – Proactive HA
  6. Restore a Resource Pool Tree