VMware VCA6-DCV Syllabus:

Section Objectives
Section 1: Explain Data Center Virtualization Concepts and Identify Typical Data Center
Challenges
Knowledge:
- Explain Data Center Virtualization.
- Differentiate Physical and Virtual Data Center Components.
- Identify Data Center Virtualization Benefits.
Identify and Explain
the Concept of Data Tools:
Center Virtualization - Virtualization Basics
- VMware vSphere 6.0 Overview
- The Business Value of Virtualization
- Business and Financial Benefits of Virtualization

Knowledge:
- Identify VMware vSphere Editions.
- Identify common management challenges.
Identify Challenges - Identify common scalability challenges.
that can be resolved - Identify common optimization challenges.
with
VMware vSphere with Tools:
Operations - Compare vSphere Editions
Management - VMware vSphere Essentials Kit and Essentials Plus Kit Datasheet
- The Business Value of Virtualization
- Business and Financial Benefits of Virtualization

Section 2: Identify, Explain and Differentiate VMware vSphere Technologies

Knowledge:
- Explain the concept and capabilities of virtual machines and vApps.
- Explain the concept and capabilities of a virtual machine.
- Identify purpose of ESXi and vCenter Server.
- Differentiate VMware migration technologies.
- Differentiate VMware availability technologies.
Describe how the - Explain the concepts of clusters and resource pools.
components of VMware - Identify and explain common VMware data center products.
vSphere support Data
Center Virtualization Tools:
- Virtualization Basics
- VMware vSphere 6.0 Datasheet
- Explore vSphere Availability Features
- Explore vSphere Migration Features
- Explore Resource Management Features
- vSphere Web Client

Differentiate VMware
Knowledge:
vSphere Storage
- Differentiate physical and virtual storage.
Section Objectives
- Explain the use of shared storage in a vSphere implementation.
- Differentiate VMFS and NFS datastores.
- Differentiate virtual disk provisioning methods.
- Explain Virtual SAN capabilities.
- Explain Virtual Volume capabilities.
- Identify capabilities of Storage I/O Control.
- Identify capabilities of Storage DRS.
- Explain VMware virtual storage technologies.
Technologies
Tools:
- What’s New in in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
- Explore vSphere Storage Features
- What’s New: VMware Virtual SAN 6.0
- What’s New: VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
- Explore Storage I/O Control (SIOC) Features
- vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
- Differentiate physical and virtual networking.
- Differentiate VMware virtual switch technologies.
- Identify VMware virtual switch components.
- Identify common virtual switch policies.
Differentiate VMware - Identify capabilities of Network I/O Control.
vSphere Networking - Differentiate traffic control mechanisms.
Technologies
Tools:
- What’s New in in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
- Explore vSphere Networking Features
- Network I/O Control (NIOC) Feature Summary
- vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
- Differentiate vSphere resource management features.
- Remediate resource management challenges.
- Identify all vMotion technologies (Storage, Resource, Long distance, etc.).
Differentiate VMware - Explain Distributed Resource Management, Distributed Power
vSphere Resource Management and High Availability.
Management
Technologies Tools:
- What’s New in in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
- Explore Resource Management Features
- Explore vSphere Migration Features
- vSphere Web Client

Differentiate VMware
Knowledge:
vSphere Availability
- Differentiate vSphere high availability features.
Technologies
- Remediate high availability challenges.
- Identify vSphere Disaster Recovery solutions.
Section Objectives
- Differentiate VMware disaster recovery/disaster tolerance technologies.
- Explain vSphere Fault Tolerance.
- Identify vSphere Replication requirements.

Tools:
- Introduction to VMware vSphere Data Protection
- Introduction to vSphere Replication
- Explore vSphere Availability Features
- Introduction to Data Protection
- vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
- Explain features of VMware NSX.
- Explain features of vRealize Operations.
- Explain features of vRealize Automation.
- Explain features of Site Recovery Manager.

Tools:
Differentiate VMware - What’s New in in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
Data Center - VMware NSX Datasheet
Virtualization Products - NSX Feature Walk Through
- vRealize Operations Datasheet
- vRealize Operations Feature Walk Through
- vRealize Automation Datasheet
- vRealize Automation Feature Walk Through
- VMware vRealize Air Homepage
- VMware vRealize Suite Datasheet
- vSphere Web Client

Section 3: Perform Operational Tasks using the vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
- Identify different virtual infrastructure objects within the vSphere Web
Client.
- Differentiate visual status indicators for various object states and
conditions.
Identify and - Describe actions that can be taken on objects given a specific state of
Understand Virtual condition.
Infrastructure Object
Status Tools:
- Using the vSphere Web Client
- vCenter Server and Host Management
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
- vSphere Web Client

Understand Hierarchy
Knowledge:
and Inventory Objects
- Differentiate the functions of the vSphere Web Client panes.
within the vSphere
- Describe vSphere Web Client Navigation, Filter and Search options.
Web Client
- Describe the Access Control system.
Section Objectives
- Understand how roles and/or permissions are assigned.
- Understand virtual machine file and inventory structure and mechanisms.
- Understand the benefit of tags assigned to inventory objects.

Tools:
- Using the vSphere Web Client
- vCenter Server and Host Management
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
- vSphere Permissions and User Management Tasks
- vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
- Install the Client Integration Plug-in.
- Install the VMware Remote Console.
- Install and/or Upgrade VMware Tools.
- Understand and differentiate virtual machine performance charts.
- Monitor Virtual Machine CPU/Memory/Disk utilization.
- Monitor ESXi Host health status.
- Monitor ESXi Host and virtual machine tasks.
Monitor Virtual Machine - Monitor ESXi Host and virtual machine events.
and ESXi Host Status - Monitor ESXi Host and virtual machine alarms.

Tools:
- Using the vSphere Web Client
- vCenter Server and Host Management
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
- Differentiate the power states of a virtual machine.
- Configure startup options for virtual machines running on a host.
- Manage the power operations of a virtual machine.
- Manage the power operations of a vApp.
- Install a guest OS to an existing virtual machine.
Perform Virtual - Manage removable media.
Machine Operations
Tools:
- Using the vSphere Web Client
- vCenter Server and Host Management
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
- vSphere Web Client

 Section 4: Correlate VMware Virtualization Solutions with Common Data Center Business
Challenges
Perform Virtual
Knowledge:
Machine Operations
- Apply VMware virtualization technologies to resolve common data center
availability challenges.
Section Objectives
- Apply VMware virtualization technologies to resolve common data center
management challenges.
- Apply VMware virtualization technologies to resolve common data center
optimization challenges.
- Apply VMware virtualization technologies to resolve common data center
scalability challenges.
- Differentiate SMB and Enterprise data center challenges and solutions that
can be met with vSphere.

Tools:
- eBook: Delivering IT Outcomes
- VMware Solutions for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
- Server Consolidation
- Software-Defined Data Center
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery