1.4 – ESXi clusters
Cover DRS, EVC, DRS scoring of VMs, HA, and fault tolerance use cases.
1.3 – Storage concepts
Identify and differentiate storage access protocols (NFS, iSCSI, SAN), datastore types, advanced storage configurations (VAAI, VASA, multipathing), storage policies, vSAN and vVOLs basics, RDM/PMem/NVMe/NVMe-oF/RDMA use cases, datastore clusters, and SIOC.
1.5 – vSS vs vDS
Describe VMkernel networking, manage networking across multiple hosts with VDS, networking policies, and Network I/O Control (NIOC).