Objective 3.5 Setup and Configure Storage I/O Control

Moving on to our last sub point in the Storage Objectives, we are going to cover Storage I/O Control. We will cover the following: Enable/Disable Storage I/O Control Configure/Manage Storage I/O Control Monitor Storage I/O Control Enable /...
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Objective 3.4 Perform Advanced VMFS and NFS Configurations and Upgrades

Continuing along our Storage Objectives, we now are going to cover VMFS and NFS datastores and our mastery of them. We will cover in this objective: Identify VMFS and NFS Datastore properties Identify VMFS5 capabilities Create/Rename/Delete/Unmount a...
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Objective 3.3 Configure Storage Multi-pathing and Failover

Once again we return to cover another objective. It has been hectic lately, with delivering my first ICM 6 class and also delivering a vBrownBag the same week on one of the future objectives. Now we are back though and trying to get in the swing of things again. Here...
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Objective 3.2: Configure Software Defined Storage

Back again!! This time we are going to go over the relatively new VSAN. Now VMWare Virtual SAN originally came out in 5.5 U1, but has been radically overhauled for 6.0 (massive jump from VSAN 1.0 -6 J ) So what are we going to go over and have to know for the...
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Objective 3.1: Manage vSphere Storage Virtualization

Wait, wait wait…. Where did objective 2.2 go? I know… I didn't include it since I have already gone over in previous objectives all the questions asked on it. So moving on to Storage. So we are going to cover the following objective points. Identify...
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Objective 2.2 – Configure Network I/O Control

After the last objective this one should be a piece of cake. There are only 4 bullet points that we need to cover for this objective. They are: Identify Network I/O Control Requirements Identify Network I/O Control Capabilities Enable / Disable Network I/O...
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Objective 2.1 Configure Advanced Policies/Features and Verify Network Virtualization Implementation (Part 2)

Wrapping up this objective we are going to cover the following: Configure LACP on Uplink Port Groups Describe vDS Security Policies / Settings Configure dvPort group blocking policies Configure Load Balancing and failover...
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Objective 2.1 Configure Advanced Policies/Features and Verify Network Virtualization Implementation (Part 1)

Welcome once again. We are going to go over the following points under this objective. Identify vSphere Distributed Switch capabilities Create / Delete a vSphere Distributed Switch Add / Remove ESXi hosts from a vSphere Distributed Switch Add / Configure /...
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Objective 1.3: Enable SSO and Active Directory Integration

Under this objective we have the following topics to cover Configure / Manage Active Directory Authentication Configure / Manage Platform Services Controller (PSC) Configure / Manage VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) Enable / Disable Single Sign-On...
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Objective 1.2: Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and vSphere Virtual Machines

And here are the following topics underneath this objective: Enable / Configure / Disable services in the ESXi Firewall Enable Lockdown Mode Configure Network Security Policies Add an ESXi host to a directory service Apply permissions to ESXi hosts using...
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