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