VCP 2019 Study Guide in PDF format

VCP-2019-Study-Guide-1Download Here is my full study guide in entirety for download. Feel free to let me know if there is something that needs correction etc. Hope this helps....
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VCP 2019 Study Guide Section 7 (Final Section)

Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks in a VMware vSphere Solution Objective 7.1 – Manage virtual networking I've gone over virtual networking a bit already. But there are two basic types of switches to manage in vSphere. Virtual Standard Switches and...
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VCP 2019 Study Guide Section 5

Section 5 – Performance-tuning and Optimizing a VMware vSphere Solution Objective 5.1 – Determine effective snapshot use cases Many companies use the term snapshot. There are numerous definitions for snapshots that vary on the company. We should first define what...
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VCP 2019 Study Guide Section 4 (No objectives in 3)

Section 4 – Installing, Configuring, and Setting Up a VMware vSphere Solution Objective 4.1 – Understand basic log output from vSphere products VMware has come a long way from when I started troubleshooting their products. Their logs have gotten easier to get...
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VCP 2019 Study Guide -Section 1

It's been a while since I've done one of these. I did one for the VCP 6.0 and kind of miss it. I've decided to take a little different approach this time. I'm going to actually write it completely up as a single document and then slowly leak it out on my blog but also...
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Objective 8.1: Deploy ESXi Hosts Using Auto Deploy

So I have skipped a few sections dealing with troubleshooting. I may circle back around and get to them if I can but I am shooting to try to get all the other stuff done. Besides, I am sure if you have gotten this far – you have had at least a couple problems and...
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Objective 6.1: Configure and Administer a vSphere Backups/Restore/Replication Solution

Welcome back to another version of Mike's VMware show! Up for today, we are going to discuss Backups and Replication. In specific, the topics we are going to cover are: Identify snapshot requirements Identify VMware Data Protection...
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Objective 5.1: Configure Advanced/Multilevel Resource Pools

Back again with a new objective. This time we are going to go over Resource Pools. Over the course of the blog post we will cover the following points. Describe the Resource Pool hierarchy Define the Expandable Reservation parameter Describe vFlash...
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Objective 4.2: Perform vCenter Server Upgrades

To wrap up upgrade processes and things, we are going to go over vCenter Upgrades. The following points will be covered: Identify steps required to upgrade a vSphere implementation Identify upgrade requirements for vCenter Upgrade vCenter Server...
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Objective 4.1: Perform ESXi Host and Virtual Machine upgrades

Here we are again, starting Objective 4.1. The following points will be covered: Identify upgrade requirements for ESXi hosts Upgrade a vSphere Distributed Switch Upgrade Virtual Machine hardware Upgrade an ESXi host using vCenter Update Manager Stage...
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