Architecture and Technologies
vCP Exam Architecture and Technologies
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- Objective 1.1 – Identify the pre-requisites and components for a VMware vSphere 8.x implementation
- Objective 1.2 – Describe the components and topology of a VMware vCenter architecture
- Objective 1.3 – Describe storage concepts
- 1.3.1 – Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for VMware vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)
- 1.3.2 – Describe storage datastore types for VMware vSphere
- 1.3.3 – Explain the importance of advanced storage configurations (vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA), multipathing, etc.)
- 1.3.4 – Describe storage policies
- 1.3.5 – Describe basic storage concepts in VMware vSAN and VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLs)
- 1.3.6 – Identify use cases for RDM, PMem, NVMe, NVMe-oF, and RDMA (iSER)
- 1.3.7 – Describe datastore clusters
- 1.3.8 – Describe Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- Objective 1.4 – Describe VMware ESXi cluster concepts
- Objective 1.5 – Explain the difference between VMware standard switches and distributed switches
- Objective 1.6 – Describe VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts
- Objective 1.7 – Describe the basics of VMware vSAN as primary storage
- Objective 1.8 – Describe the role of Virtual Machine Encryption in a data center