VCAP5-DCA – What’s new?

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  • Section 1.1 – Implement and Manage complex storage
    • Determine use cases for and configure VMware DirectPath I/O
    • Determine requirements for and configure NPIV
    • Determine appropriate RAID level for various Virtual Machine workloads
    • Apply VMware storage best practices
    • Understand use cases for Raw Device Mapping
    • Configure vCenter Server storage filters
    • Understand and apply VMFS resignaturing
    • Understand and apply LUN masking using PSA‐related commands
    • Analyze I/O workloads to determine storage performance requirements
    • Identify and tag SSD devices
    • Administer hardware acceleration for VAAI
    • Configure and administer profile-based storage
    • Prepare storage for maintenance (mounting/un-mounting)
    • Upgrade VMware storage infrastructure
  • Section 1.2 – Manage storage capacity in a vSphere environment
    • Apply space utilization data to manage storage resources
    • Provision and manage storage resources according to Virtual Machine requirements
    • Understand interactions between virtual storage provisioning and physical storage provisioning
    • Apply VMware storage best practices
    • Configure Datastore Alarms
    • Analyze Datastore Alarms and errors to determine space availability
    • Configure Datastore Clusters
  • Section 1.3 -Configure and manage complex multipathing and PSA plugins
    • Install and Configure PSA plug-ins
    • Understand different multipathing policy functionalities
    • Perform command line configuration of multipathing options
    • Change a multipath policy
    • Configure Software iSCSI port binding (now via GUI)
  • Section 2.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Networking
    • Determine use cases for and apply IPv6
    • Configure NetQueue
    • Configure SNMP
    • Determine use cases for and applying VMware DirectPath I/O
    • Migrate a vSS network to a Hybrid or Full vDS solution
    • Configure vSS and vDS settings using command line tools
    • Analyze command line output to identify vSS and vDS configuration details
    • Configure NetFlow
    • Determine appropriate discovery protocol
      • CDP
      • LLDP
  • Section 2.2 – Configure and maintain VLANs, PVLANs and VLAN settings
    • Determine use cases for and configure VLAN Trunking
    • Determine use cases for and configure PVLANs
    • Use command line tools to troubleshoot and identify VLAN configurations
  • Section 2.3 – Deploy and maintain scalable virtual networking
    • Understand the NIC Teaming failover types and related physical network settings
    • Determine and apply Failover settings
    • Configure explicit failover to conform with VMware best practices
    • Configure port groups to properly isolate network traffic
  • Section 2.4 – Administer vNetwork Distributed Switch settings
    • Understand the use of command line tools to configure appropriate vDS settings on an ESXi host (ESX is no longer included)
    • Determine use cases for and apply Port Binding settings
    • Configure Live Port Moving
    • Given a set of network requirements, identify the appropriate distributed switch technology to use
    • Configure and administer vSphere Network I/O Control
    • Use command line tools to troubleshoot and identify configuration items from an existing vDS
  • Section 3.1 – Tune and Optimise vSphere performance
    • Tune ESXi host memory configuration
    • Tune ESXi host networking configuration
    • Tune ESXi host CPU configuration
    • Tune ESXi host storage configuration
    • Configure and apply advanced ESXi host attributes
    • Configure and apply advanced Virtual Machine attributes
    • Configure advanced cluster attributes
    • Tune and optimize NUMA controls
  • Section 3.2 – Optimize virtual machine resources
    • Tune Virtual Machine memory configurations
    • Tune Virtual Machine networking configurations
    • Tune Virtual Machine CPU configurations
    • Tune Virtual Machine storage configurations
    • Calculate available resources
    • Properly size a Virtual Machine based on application workload
    • Modify large memory page settings
    • Understand appropriate use cases for CPU affinity
    • Configure alternate virtual machine swap locations
  • Section 3.3 – Implement and maintain complex DRS solutions
    • Understand the DRS / storage DRS migration algorithms, the Load Imbalance Metrics, and their impact on migration recommendations (updated to add storage DRS and Load Imbalance metrics)
    • Properly configure BIOS and management settings to support DPM
    • Test DPM to verify proper configuration
    • Configure appropriate DPM Threshold to meet business requirements
    • Configure EVC using appropriate baseline
    • Change the EVC mode on an existing DRS cluster
    • Create DRS and DPM alarms
    • Configure applicable power management settings for ESXi hosts
    • Properly size virtual machines and clusters for optimal DRS efficiency
    • Properly apply virtual machine automation levels based upon application requirements
    • Create and administer ESXi host and Datastore Clusters
    • Administer DRS / Storage DRS
  • Section 3.4 -Perform capacity planning in a vSphere environment
    • this section is no longer included
  • Section 3.4 – Utilize advanced vSphere Performance Monitoring tools
    • Configure esxtop/resxtop custom profiles
    • Determine use cases for and apply esxtop/resxtop Interactive, Batch and Replay modes
    • Use vscsiStats to gather storage performance data
    • Use esxtop/resxtop to collect performance data
    • Given esxtop/resxtop output, identify relative performance data for capacity planning purposes
  • Section 4.1 – Implement and maintain complex VMware HA solutions
    • Calculate host failure requirements
    • Configure customized isolation response settings
    • Configure HA redundancy
      • Management Network
      • Datastore Heartbeat
      • Network partitions
    • Configure HA related alarms and monitor an HA cluster
    • Create a custom slot size configuration
    • Understand interactions between DRS and HA
    • Create an HA solution that ensures primary node distribution across sites
    • Analyze vSphere environment to determine appropriate HA admission control policy
    • Analyze performance metrics to calculate host failure requirements
    • Analyze Virtual Machine workload to determine optimum slot size
    • Analyze HA cluster capacity to determine optimum cluster size
  • Section 4.2 – Deploy and test VMware FT
    • Modify VM and ESXi host settings to allow for FT compatibility
    • Use VMware best practices to prepare a vSphere environment for FT
    • Configure FT logging
    • Prepare the infrastructure for FT compliance
    • Test FT failover, secondary restart, and application fault tolerance in a FT Virtual Machine
  • Section 4.3 – Configure a vSphere environment to support MSCS Clustering
    • this section is no longer included

  • Section 4.4 – Deploy and maintain vCenter Heartbeat
    • this section is no longer included
  • Section 5.1 -Manage host profiles
    • Use Profile Editor to edit and/or disable policies
    • Create sub-profiles
    • Use Host Profiles to deploy vDS
    • Use Host Profiles to deploy vStorage policies
    • Manage Answer Files
  • Section 5.2 -Deploy and Manage complex Update Manager environments
    • Install and configure Update Manager Download Service
    • Configure a shared repository
    • Configure smart rebooting
    • Manually download updates to a repository
    • Perform orchestrated vSphere upgrades
    • Create and modify baseline groups
    • Troubleshoot Update Manager problem areas and issues
    • Generate database reports using MS Excel or MS SQL
    • Upgrade vApps using Update Manager
    • Utilize Update Manager PowerCLI to export baselines for testing
    • Utilize the Update Manager Utility to reconfigure vUM settings
  • Section 6.1 – Configure, manage and analyse vSphere log files
    • Generate vCenter Server and ESXi log bundles
    • Use vicfg‐syslog to configure centralized logging on ESX/ESXi Hosts
    • Configure the vMA appliance as a log host
    • Use vilogger to enable/disable log collection on the vMA appliance
    • Use vilogger to configure log rotation and retention
    • Use esxcli system syslog to configure centralized logging on ESXi hosts
    • Test centralized logging configuration
    • Analyze log entries to obtain configuration information
    • Analyze log entries to identify and resolve issues
    • Install and configure VMware syslog Collector and ESXi Dump Collector
  • Section 6.2 – Troubleshoot CPU and memory performance
    • Troubleshoot ESXi host and Virtual Machine CPU performance issues using appropriate metrics
    • Troubleshoot ESXi host and Virtual Machine memory performance issues using appropriate metrics
    • Use Hot-Add functionality to resolve identified Virtual Machine CPU and memory performance issues
  • Section 6.3 -Troubleshoot Network Performance and connectivity
    • Utilize net-dvs to troubleshoot vNetwork Distributed Switch configurations
    • Utilize vSphere CLI commands to troubleshoot ESXi network configurations (was Utilize vi-cfg commands…)
    • Configure a network packet analyzer in a vSphere environment
    • Troubleshoot Private VLANs
    • Troubleshoot vmkernel related network configuration issues (was Troubleshoot Service Console and vmkernel…)
    • Troubleshoot DNS and routing related issues
    • Use esxtop/resxtop to identify network performance problems
    • Use CDP and/or network hints to identify connectivity issues
    • Analyze troubleshooting data to determine if the root cause for a given network problem originates in the physical infrastructure or vSphere environment
    • Configure and administer Port Mirroring
    • Utilize Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) and ESXi Shell to troubleshoot, configure, and monitor ESXi networking
  • Section 6.4 – Troubleshoot storage performance and connectivity
    • Use esxcli to troubleshoot multipathing and PSA-related issues (was Use vi-cfg* and esxcli…)
    • Use esxcli to troubleshoot VMkernel storage module configurations (was Use vi-cfg* and esxcli…)
    • Use esxcli to troubleshoot iSCSI related issues (was Use vi-cfg* and esxcli…)
    • Troubleshoot NFS mounting and permission issues
    • Use esxtop/resxtop and vscsiStats to identify storage performance issues
    • Configure and troubleshoot VMFS datastores using vmkfstools
    • Troubleshoot snapshot and resignaturing issues
    • Analyze log files to identify storage and multipathing problems
  • Section 6.5 – Troubleshoot vCenter Server and ESXi host management
    • Troubleshoot vCenter Server service and database connection issues
    • Troubleshoot the ESXi firewall (was Troubleshoot the ESX firewall)
    • Troubleshoot ESXi host management and connectivity issues (was ESX host management)
    • Determine the root cause of a vSphere management or connectivity issue
    • Utilize Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) and ESXi Shell to troubleshoot, configure, and monitor an environment
  • Section 7.1 – Secure ESXi hosts
    • Add/Edit Remove users/groups on an ESXi host
    • Customize SSH settings for increased security
    • Enable/Disable certificate checking
    • Generate ESXi host certificates (was Generate ESX host certificates)
    • Enable ESXi lockdown mode
    • Replace default certificate with CA-signed certificate
    • Configure SSL timeouts
    • Configure vSphere Authentication Proxy (was Configure ESX Web proxy)
    • Enable strong passwords and configure password policies
    • Identify methods for hardening virtual machines
    • Analyze logs for security-related messages
    • Manage Active Directory integration
  • Section 7.2 – Configure and Maintain the ESXi firewall(was ESX)
    • Enable/Disable pre-configured services (was ESX not ESXi)
    • Configure service behavior automation (was ESX not ESXi)
    • Open/Close ports in the firewall (was ESX not ESXi)
    • Create a custom service (was ESX not ESXi)
    • Set firewall security level(was ESX not ESXi)
  • Section 7.3 – Deploy and Administer vShield Zones
    • This section is no longer included
  • Section 8.1 – Execute VMware cmdlets and customize scripts using PowerCLI
    • Install and configure vSphere PowerCLI
    • Install and configure Update Manager PowerShell Library
    • Use basic and advanced Cmdlets to manage VMs and ESXi Hosts (was ESX hosts)
    • Use Web Service Access Cmdlets
    • Use Datastore and Inventory Providers
    • Given a sample script, modify the script to perform a given action
  • Section 8.2 -Administer vCenter Orchestrator
    • This section is no longer included
  • Section 8.2 – Administer vSphere using the vSphere Management Assistant
    • Install and configure vMA
    • Add/Remove target servers
    • Perform updates to the vMA
    • Use vmkfstools to manage VMFS datastores
    • Use vmware-cmd to manage VMs
    • Use esxcli to manage ESXi Host configurations
    • Troubleshoot common vMA errors and conditions
  • Section 9.1 – Install ESXi hosts with custom settings(was ESX)
    • Create/Edit Image Profiles
    • Install/uninstall custom drivers
    • Configure advanced bootloader options
    • Configure kernel options
    • Given a scenario, determine when to customize a configuration
  • Section 9.2 – Plan and execute scripted installations
    • This section is no longer included
  • Section 9.2 (new) – Install ESXi hosts using AutoDeploy
    • Install the Auto Deploy Server
    • Utilize Auto Deploy cmdlets to deploy ESXi hosts
    • Configure Bulk Licensing
    • Provision/Reprovision ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy
    • Configure an Auto Deploy reference host
  • Section 9.3 – Configure vCenter Server Linked Mode
    • This section is no longer included
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