VMware VCP-DCV (Updated for vSphere 7)
Overview
This course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere management skills. Starting with the knowledge required to install and configure, you will also develop the advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 7.0, which includes VMware ESXi 7.0 and VMware vCenter Server 7.0.
VMware VCP-DCV (Updated for vSphere 7) Overview
This course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere management skills. Starting with the knowledge required to install and configure, you will also develop the advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 7.0, which includes VMware ESXi 7.0 and VMware vCenter Server 7.0.
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Hey everybody, welcome to
VMware VCP-DCV (Update for vSphere 7).
I'm your host Mike Roderick and
with me is Mr. Adam Gordon.
Hello, everybody.
So Adam, tell me a little bit about
what we're gonna learn in this course.
We're gonna take a look at the
knowledge base associated with the VCP-DCV
exam, the data center virtualization
exam is what we're focused on.
All of the content that you wanna know
about all the cool features, capabilities,
services.
And all of that stuff associated
with how to set up, manage and
maintain a data center at
scale using VMware products.
Sounds like a lot of
information really excited.
How are we gonna break this up?
So we've got ten distinct areas
we're gonna focus on kinda breaking out
the knowledge into bite-size areas
that we can really drill down on,
spend time on, examine in depth.
And along with Mike really tell some
compelling stories to you about how all
this technology works, how it comes
together, kinda things you look to do
both in the real world as well
as preparation for the exam.
Areas like the software defined datacenter
and how technologies like containers
are really becoming very important as
we look at those kind of capabilities.
We're gonna talk about virtual machines,
how we can set them up, how we can
configure them, manage them, perhaps
even automate that process at scale.
We'll take a look at vCenter itself,
the vCenter Server Appliance,
really talk about some of the new
capabilities and features that are there.
We've moved away from vCenter as a
deployable application running in Windows,
is now only a hardware appliance.
And we'll take a look at that and
talk about the implications of that for
architecture and
how you're gonna approach deployment.
We'll take a look at configuring and
monitoring and
maintaining a virtual networks and virtual
storage solutions that allow us to be able
to provide the underlying fabric that we
need in our data centers as we rack and
stack infrastructure using hosts.
But then also virtualized elements to be
able to maintain our infrastructure and
provide that at scale capability
that virtualization is relied on,
really to not only use, but to be
able to scale on demand if necessary.
We'll also take a look at
virtual machine management,
how we can automate and really, at scale,
use things like templating, cloning.
And the ability to be able to not only
work with virtual machines, but envision
how we can transport them and move them
around to keep them out of harm's way.
While also keeping them safe and
secure, and
make them available either
highly available or
through fault tolerance with zero
downtime, ensure continuity of operations.
We'll take a look at resource management
and monitoring, really scaling out our
capabilities to understand the health
of those virtual machines,
as well as how we can manage them.
We'll take a look at vSphere clusters,
looking at host clusters at scale.
As well as VSAM,
and how we can use a VSAM cluster to
be able to find storage scalability.
And finally, we'll focus on a new element
of the vSphere experience in vSphere 7,
the Lifecycle Manager,
really replacing this older idea of VUM,
VMware Update Manager.
And how we can do patch management,
how we can securely operate our virtual
machines with the latest updates that
VMware or perhaps even some other
third party authorized providers
are putting out for us.
As well as upgrading our VMware Tools and
our VMware hardware levels.
So we're gonna take a look at all of that.
And in addition, tell some stories,
we'll take a look at how things work,
we'll explore the capabilities.
And of course, as always, we're gonna
have a lot of fun doing all that.
I'm excited, and Adam, you said there's
also a certification associated with this?
There is, so the VCP-DCV certification,
the data center virtualization
certification is exactly
what we're focused on.
It is the VCP-DCV with
a year designation now.
So every year that designation changes
doesn't mean the content is necessarily
changed.
It just means that VMware is moved
to a model where they stamp those
certifications by year, telling you and
everybody else when you took and
certified against that exam.
But it does rotate through and as that
knowledge base updates, we're always here
to make sure you know the latest
information to ensure your success.
All right, and thanks for
that quick overview there.
I know, I'm excited,
I think you're pretty excited.
Hopefully everybody out
there is excited as well.
So stay tuned as we get started.
See you soon.
Thank you for watching ITPro TV.
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Learning Style
On Demand
Length of course
18h 29m
49 Episodes
Here are the topics we'll cover
- vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Virtual Machines
- vCenter Server
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Virtual Machine Management
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- vSphere Clusters
- vSphere Lifecycle Management
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