Course Content
Getting Started with VCAP5-DCA Introduction
Advanced Storage Management
- Understanding Different RAID Levels
- Workload I/O Requirements
- Understanding Real World Performance
- Best Practices and Recommendations
- What About Storage Interconnect?
- Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) - When and Why
- Two Types of Raw Device Mappings
- Creating a RDM
Storage Capacity Management
- Using and Managing VAAI
- VAAI Acceleration
- Confirming VAAI Support
- Configuring Profile-Driven Storage
- VMFS Resignaturing
- Using Storage-Related CLI Tools
- Types of Thin and Thick VMDKs
- Configuring Datastore Alarms
Storage Connectivity and Multipathing
- Addressing
- Understanding NPIV
- Configuring NPIV
- Using VMDirectPath
- Configuring VMDirectPath
- What is the Pluggable Storage Architecture?
- Claim Rules
- Configuring PSA Options
- iSCSI Port Binding
- A Bit on Storage Queues
Virtual Network Management and Implementation
- Components of a vSwitch Architecture
- What is the vSphere Distributed Switch?
- Deploying and Configuring the VDS
- Migrate a Host, vmkernel, and VMs to the VDS
