There's been some big news this week about VMware certification involving the release of the new Professional VMware vSphere 7.x exam. So, what does this mean and how does it affect someone wishing to become VCP certified? As there are a number of technology areas you can achieve a VCP certification in, this post is going to look at the 'VCP - Data Center Virtualisation' track. https://www.vmware.com/education-services/certification/vcp-dcv-7-exam.html To start with, back in Feb 2019 VMware changed the naming of the VCP certification to now include the year you passed the exam rather than specifying the version of vSphere that you had studied and were examined on. So last year we had the VCP-DCV 2019 and this year will be the VCP-DCV 2020. If you are already a VCP 2020 then passing this new exam won't gain you anything extra. If, however if you do not currently have a VCP then VMware have dropped the requirement that meant you had to take and pass the Foundations exam.
I thought it would be useful to summarise a list of what's new with each new version of vSAN seeing as though it gets updated quite frequently... vSAN 7.0 U3 Cluster Shutdown Feature vLCM support for Witness Appliance Skyline Health Correlation IO Trip Analyzer Nested Fault Domains for 2-Node Clusters Enhanced Stretch Cluster durability Access Based Enumeration for SMB shares via vSAN Files Services See - https://core.vmware.com/blog/vsan-7-update-3-whats-new vSAN 7.0 U2 VMware vSAN HCI Mesh capabilities vSAN Stretched cluster Functionality and Scale Improvements vSAN File Services Interoperability and Scale Improvements vSphere Proactive HA Support vSphere Native Key Provider Health Check History Performance Top Contributors Network Diagnostics See - https://cormachogan.com/2021/03/30/vsan-7-0-u2-whats-new/ vSAN 7.0 U1 vSAN File Services now supports the SMB protocol vSAN File Services now supports Kerberos and Active Directory vSAN File Services Scale Increase Introducing Disaggr
These are 2 of the best books I recommend to my students in the courses I teach... vSphere Host Resources Deep Dive (6.5) By Frank Denneman and Niels Hagoort, If you want to have a really deep understanding about how an ESXi host handles resource management then this is the book for you. It also goes into a lot of depth about processor architecture and topics such as vNUMA. Even though it is based on ESXi 6.5, there is still a ton on incredibly useful information within. Download this book here... https://www.rubrik.com/en/lp/white-papers/19/host-resources-deep-dive-ebook.html vSphere Clustering Deep Dive (6.7) By Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman and Niels Hagoort. This book goes really deep into how vSphere HA works and how to create a robust HA cluster along with explaining how to get the best out of DRS, network resource pools and resources allocation settings. There is never enough time to go through all the minute detail in class but you'll find it here in this book. Download thi
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