VMware® - Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design 2023 (VCAP-DCV Design

Curriculum

• Module 1: Architectures and Technologies
• Differentiate between conceptual, logical and physical elements of a design
• Differentiate between functional and non-functional requirements
• Differentiate between Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability, Scalability and Security (AMPRSS)

• Module 2: VMware Products and Solutions

There are no testable objectives for this section.

• Module 3: Planning and Designing
• Gather and analyze functional requirements
  • Gather and analyze service-level agreement (SLA) requirements
  • Gather network, storage and compute requirements
  • Gather workload design requirements
  • Gather capacity and performance requirements
• Gather and analyze non-functional requirements
  • Determine security requirements for a vSphere design
  • Determine data protection requirements for a vSphere design
  • Determine business continuity requirements for a vSphere design
  • Determine disaster recovery requirements for a vSphere design
  • Determine compliance requirements for a vSphere design
• Determine risks, constraints and assumptions for a design
• Create a vCenter Server logical design
  • Design a single-site, multi-site, multi-region deployment
  • Define a virtual data center design
  • Determine availability requirements for vCenter Server
• Create a vSphere cluster logical design
  • Differentiate between workload or management clusters
  • Define a workload cluster design
• Create a vSphere host logical design
  • Recommend compute resource requirements
  • Identify and address scalability requirements
  • Determine hypervisor deployment method
• Create a vSphere network logical design
  • Determine network protocol needs
  • Design network segregation for different traffic types
  • Determine physical and virtual networking topology
• Create a vSphere storage logical design
  • Determine storage topology needs (e.g., SAN, local, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure or HCI)
  • Evaluate storage protocols based on a given scenario/requirements
  • Determine different storage segregation techniques based on a given scenario
  • Determine physical and storage connectivity topology
• Create a workload logical design
  • Determine workload sizing
  • Determine workload placement
• Create a vCenter Server physical design
  • Determine the correct sizing for vCenter Server based on workload requirements
  • Map clusters to logical design
• Create a vSphere cluster physical design
  • Determine the appropriate Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (pDRS), and Distributed Power Management (DPM) configurations based on requirements
  • Determine the appropriate Proactive High Availability/High Availability configurations based on requirements
  • Determine the appropriate vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) configurations based on requirements
  • Determine the appropriate cluster size based on requirements
• Create a vSphere host physical design
  • Identify the hypervisor deployment method
  • Determine the appropriate host size based on requirements
  • Determine the appropriate host configurations (network adapters, local storage, RAID controller) based on requirements
• Create a vSphere network physical design
  • Determine bandwidth needs based on requirements
  • Determine NIC teaming and load balancing methods
  • Design VMkernel adapters based on requirements
  • Determine Network I/O Control (NIOC) configurations based on requirements
  • Determine switch type (standard vs distributed) based on requirements
• Create a vSphere storage physical design
  • Determine storage multi-pathing and load balancing methods
  • Determine the Storage DRS configuration
  • Determine appropriate datastore configurations based on requirements
  • Determine the physical storage design based on requirements
  • Determine appropriate storage policy based on requirements
• Create a workload physical design based on application requirements
  • Determine workload virtual hardware (e.g., number of network interface cards (NICs) and type of NIC)
  • Design content library topology

• Module 4: Installing, Configuring, and Setup

There are no testable objectives for this section.

• Module 5: Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades

There are no testable objectives for this section.

• Module 6: Troubleshooting and Repairing

There are no testable objectives for this section.

• Module 7: Administrative and Operational Tasks

There are no testable objectives for this section.