Logical Operations Certified Virtualization Professional VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam CVP2-111

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1 Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam CVP2-111 Exam Infrmatin Candidate Eligibility: The Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 exam requires n applicatin fee, supprting dcumentatin, r ther eligibility verificatin measures fr yu t be eligible t take the exam. Simply purchase an exam vucher here, then Lgical Operatins will send yu an cntaining the infrmatin yu need t register t take the exam thrugh Pearsn VUE. Yu can als purchase a vucher directly thrugh Pearsn VUE. If yur vucher came bundled with yur CVP training prgram, yu will receive registratin infrmatin frm yur training prvider. Once yu have btained yur vucher infrmatin, yu can register fr an exam time here. By redeeming yur exam vucher, yu agree t ur Candidate Agreement. Exam Prerequisites While there are n frmal prerequisites t register fr and schedule a CVP2-111 exam time, Lgical Operatins (LO) strngly recmmends yu first pssess the knwledge, skills, and abilities t d the fllwing: Explain the significant benefits f virtualizatin Install ESXi Server fllwing best practices Cnfigure and manage lcal strage Create standard and distributed virtual switches and use pnics t uplink virtual-t-physical LAN segments Understand and use advanced vswitch settings, such as NIC teaming and security Imprve netwrk perfrmance with jumb frames Use shared SAN strage, including Fibre SAN and iscsi SAN Create and use raw device maps Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

2 Define and use file share (NAS) datastres Install, cnfigure, and update the Platfrm Service Cntrller and vcenter Server Appliance Create VMs, and install perating systems and applicatins Cnfigure and use htplug hardware including ht-add vcpus and memry Add and grw virtual disks, including system disks and secndary vlumes Rapidly deply VMs using glden-master templates Create clnes Perfrm VM cld migratins, vmtin ht migratins, and Strage vmtin strage migratins Cnfigure, manage, mnitr, and secure users and grups Identify the benefits and tradeffs f netwrk attached strage, and Fibre and iscsi SANs Deply and use VMware replicatin t implement VM disaster preparedness Create and manage DRS lad balanced clusters Understand, create, and manage HA clusters t prtect against VM service lss caused by ESXi Server failures Cnfigure VMware fault tlerance t maintain VM availability in the event f an ESXi hst failure Mnitr and tune bth ESXi and virtual machine perfrmance Patch and update ESXi Servers using VMware Update Manager Identify hw VMware and third-party prducts, including perating systems, are impacted by virtualizatin Create and use distributed virtual switches Trublesht cmmn prblems Yu can btain this level f skill and knwledge by taking ne f the fllwing Lgical Operatins curses, which are available thrugh training prviders lcated arund the wrld: VMware vsphere 6.5 with ESXi and vcenter VMware vsphere 6.5 with ESXi and vcenter Bt Camp Please visit fr a full listing f training prviders ffering these curses. Exam Specificatins Number f Items: 80 Passing Scre: 56 ut f 80 (70%) Duratin: 120 minutes (Nte: Published exam times include the 5 minutes yu are alltted fr reading and signing the Candidate Agreement and the 5 minutes yu are alltted fr the Pearsn VUE testing system tutrial.) Exam Optins: In persn at Pearsn VUE test centers Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

3 Item Frmats: Multiple Chice/Multiple Respnse/True-False Exam Descriptin Target Candidate: This exam is intended fr intermediate and senir vsphere 6.5 administratrs and peratrs wh are tasked with getting the maximum benefit frm investments in virtual infrastructure; security specialists wh are respnsible fr administering, managing, and securing virtual envirnments; perfrmance analysts wh need t prvisin and mnitr virtual infrastructure; and strage administratrs wh wrk with Fibre/iSCSI SAN vlumes and NAS datastres. The typical candidate has tw years r mre f dayt-day vsphere administratin experience. T ensure exam candidates pssess the afrementined knwledge, skills, and abilities, the CVP2-111 exam will test them n the fllwing bjective dmains with the fllwing weightings: Dmain % f Examinatin 1.0 Standalne ESXi 5% 2.0 Netwrking and Strage 29% 3.0 VM Creatin and Management 33% 4.0 Resurce Management 14% 5.0 Mnitring and Maintenance 10% 6.0 Replicatin and High Availability 9% Ttal 100% The infrmatin that fllws is meant t help yu prepare fr yur Lgical Operatins certificatin exam. This infrmatin des nt represent an exhaustive list f all the cncepts and skills that yu may be tested n during yur exam. The exam dmains, identified previusly and included in the bjectives listing, represent the large cntent areas cvered in the exam. The bjectives within thse dmains represent the specific tasks assciated with the jb rle(s) being tested. The infrmatin beynd the dmains and bjectives is meant t prvide examples f the types f cncepts, tls, skills, and abilities that relate t the crrespnding dmains and bjectives. All f this infrmatin represents the industry-expert analysis f the jb rle(s) related t the certificatin and des nt necessarily crrelate ne-t-ne with the cntent cvered in yur training prgram r n yur exam. Lgical Operatins strngly recmmends that yu independently study t familiarize yurself with any cncept identified here that was nt explicitly cvered in yur training prgram r prducts. Objectives: Dmain 1.0 Standalne ESXi Objective 1.1 Install and cnfigure ESXi. Installatin prcess Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

4 EULA Target disks Rt passwrds Lcal strage partitining and frmatting Enterprise class strage cntrllers Pst-installatin ESXi DCUI NIC selectin Static IP Hst/dmain names Management netwrk cnfiguratin IPv4/IPv6 cnfiguratin Hst lgs Cnfig files vsphere Client supprt Inventry Rles System lgs ESXi Hst Client User management Active Directry jining Time cnfiguratin DNS and ruter settings Physical server prperties Physical netwrk adapters Health status ESXi firewall ESXi system lgs Resurce sizing Dmain 2.0 Netwrking and Strage Objective 2.1 Identify cmmn virtual netwrk hardware cmpnents and cncepts. Virtual switches Internal nly/islated Uplinked Teamed vswitch prperties Virtual side Physical side vswitch rules Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

5 Frame frwarding Multi-hmed netwrking Virtual NICs Emulated Fully virtualized Objective 2.2 Wrk with virtual switches. vsphere standard virtual switches vsphere dvswitches New dvswitch Wizard dvswitch pnic and migratin tasks Accessible/inaccessible VMs Private vlans Secndary vlans Frame frwarding vswitch cnnectin types VMkernel prts VM prt grups vswitch rules VMkernel NICs pnic teams Cisc Discvery Prtcl Objective 2.3 Perfrm advanced virtual netwrking tasks. Prt assignments vnic t vswitch pnic t vswitch vswitch security plicies Prmiscuus mde Packet analyzers MAC address changes MAC address spfing Frged transmits Ethernet frames Prt scanners Traffic shaping Average bandwidth Peak bandwidth Burst size vswitch t pswitch frwarding NIC team settings Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

6 Lad balancing Hst pcpu cnsideratins Packet distributin Cmplexity Hardware cmpatibility Backward cmpatibility Ruting By riginating prt By surce MAC hash By IP hash By physical NIC lad NIC failure Active/standby pnics Netwrk failure tests Link state Beacning Resilient netwrk cnfiguratin Ntify switches NIC team size changes 802.1Q VLAN prt tagging Failback Objective 2.4 Wrk with shared strage. Netwrking categries Physical Virtual-t-physical VM-t-VM VMkernel netwrking NAS SMB NFS prtcl Server side vs. client side Prs and cns f NFS shares FQDN/IP Linux NFS shares /dir IP Rw Sych N_rt_squash Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

7 Defining Drive types Capacity Prvisining Munting/unmunting Trubleshting VMware supprt Crrect addressing Services enabled Firewall cnfiguratin Cnnectivity NFS best practices Jumb frames Read-nly munting SAN Strage capacity cnslidatin Redundant pathways Shadwing Snapshtting Fibre SANs Fibre switched fabric tplgy Wrld Wide Names Zning Masking Zning ptins Prt zning WWN zning Hard and sft zning Runtime hardware paths iscsi Nn-redundant strage netwrks Redundant Layer 2 netwrks Stacked strage netwrks Ruted strage netwrks iscsi qualified names Hardware/sftware initiatrs IQN CHAP 1-way Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

8 LUN 2-way LUN discvery ptins Static Send targets Thin LUN prvisining Deduplicatin Hardware addresses Strage perfrmance and management Fast Ethernet netwrking Islated LAN segments pnic bnding Replicatin and backups Disaster recvery Objective 2.5 Wrk with VMware s Cluster File System. VMFS Creatin Grwth Spanning VMFS aut discvery The Add Strage wizard Device selectin VMFS versins Partitin cnfiguratin Datastre settings Strage paths Healthy Failed Preferred Active Standby PSP Rund Rbin Fixed Mst Recently Used Capacity management Objective 2.6 Wrk with RDMs RDM prperties Lcatin Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

9 Cmpatibility Virtual Physical Shares Virtual device nde prdms and vmtin/strage vmtin prdms and cld migratin vrdms and vmtin/strage vmtin vrdms and cld migratin Micrsft fail ver clusters Qurum disks Shared data disks Cluster in a bx Cluster acrss bxes Active/standby ndes 4-nde and 5-nde clusters Dmain 3.0 VM Creatin and Management Objective 3.1 Identify cmmn virtual machine hardware cmpnents. VM hardware Virtual keybard Keybard/muse cntrllers Flppy cntrllers IDE cntrllers SATA cntrllers PCI vide cntrllers CPUs Virtual Ethernet NICs USB devices Base VMs Objective 3.2 Create and cnfigure virtual machines. The New virtual machine wizard vcpu sckets and cres RAM Disk SCSI SATA Remvable media devices VMX files Guest OS installatin Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

10 ISO images vs. physical media Supprted OSs Windws versins Linux distributins Other supprted OSs Virtual hardware upgrades Objective 3.3 Install VMware tls. Mac OSX Slaris 10 and 11 FreeBSD Unix SCO OpenServer 5, UnixWare 7 Device manager Guest OS driver enhancements Additinal drivers Heartbeat File system synchrnizatin Guest OS busy/idle indicatr Memry management USB pass thrugh t physical devices VM snapshts Snapsht Manager Cmmit Revert Frk Objective 3.4 Imprt and cnfigure vcenter Server. vcenter Server vcenter fr Windws Windws vserver Installer App vcenter fr databases Micrsft Oracle vpstgres Database strage requirements Perfrmance data vcenter Server Appliance PSC VAMI vcenter Task Scheduler VMware Remte Cnsle Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

11 SSO Service VMCA VMCA default VMCE enterprise Custm vsphere Web Client HTML5 versin ESXi target hst selectin Passwrd selectin Deplyment size Strage requirements Target datastres Time synchrnizatin Objective 3.5 Create an inventry hierarchy. Datacenters Datacenter flders Objective 3.6 Install and perate the VMware Remte Cnsle Applicatin. VM prperty editing Pwer management BIOS interactin Phenix BIOS Objective 3.7 Deply multiple VMs simultaneusly. Image creatin Templates Prperties Guest OS custmizatin Hst/cluster/resurce pl assignment Virtual disk frmats Thick prvisined Thin prvisined Deplying frm templates Deply Template wizard Clning Objective 3.8 Wrk with and manage virtual appliances. Pre-built VMs Types (based n need) Security Firewall Antivirus/anti-spam Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

12 IDS/IPS Unified threat management Applicatins Mail servers Web servers OSs Virtual appliance prs and cns vcpu cnsideratins Htplugging vcpu htplugging Memry htplugging Virtual disk 2D/3D vide supprt Imprtatin OVF OVA Objective 3.9 Define permissin mdels. Rles Privileges Existing rles Administratr VM User VM Pwer User Netwrk Administratr Custm rles Rle assignment Permissins Item-level vcenter base permissins Default ESXi permissins Permissin best practices Grups ESX Admins grup Objective 3.10 Mnitr virtual infrastructure with vcenter alarms. Alarms Parameters Actins Definitin and custmizatin Active and bject alarms Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

13 Alarm best practices Alarm targets Objective 3.11 Perfrm migratin tasks. VM migratin Cld Ht vmtin migratin vmtin migratin requirements Lng distance migratin Strage Strage vmtin Validatin and warnings Hst cmpatibility AMD CPU Identificatin Utility Intel CPU Identificatin Utility Dmain 4.0 Resurce Management Objective 4.1 Allcate resurce pls. Resurce pls vs. individual VMs Aut-update Resurce allcatin Resurce use mnitring Resurce delegatin Fair Predictable Resurce tuneables Limits Reservatins Shares Resurce pl settings Share settings High Nrmal Lw Hard limits Ttal ESXi hst MHz Ttal ESXi hst MBs Expandable reservatins Dynamic memry management Objective 4.2 Wrk with DRS clusters. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

14 DRS clusters Cluster maximums Predictive DRS Netwrk-aware DRS DRS functins ESXi hst placement ESXi hst dynamic balancing DRS peratin mdes Manal Partially autmated Fully autmated Migratin threshld DRS prfiles VM distributin Memry metric fr lad balancing CPU vercmmit Affinity/anti-affinity rules Overrides EVC AMD Optern pcpus Intel Xen pcpus EVC requirements EVC validatin/validatin failures Server generatin cnsideratins DRS resurce management Server capacity management Dmain 5.0 Mnitring and Maintenance Objective 5.1 Mnitr virtual infrastructure with vcenter alarms. Alarms Actins Custm alarms Alarm status Green Triggers VM triggers ESXi hst triggers Datastre triggers vcenter triggers Default definitins Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

15 Yellw Red Mail server prperties SNMP receiver prperties Objective 5.2 Wrk with VMware Update Manager. VUM VUM Size Estimatr VUM cnfiguratin VUM vsphere Client plug-in Netwrk cnnectivity/prts Settings Maintenance Mde Cluster Baseline types Hst patch Fixed Dynamic Hst extensin Hst upgrade VA upgrade Baseline attachment Patch applicatin Cmpliance scanning VUM tasks Sftware patch definitin dwnlading Patch update dwnlading Update scanning VUM and HA admissin cntrl Hst remediatin ptins Cluster remediatin ptins Objective 5.3 Analyze and tune perfrmance. Cmmn perfrmance issues Scalability Efficient resurce utilizatin CPU scheduling and priritizatin Sckets Cres Hyper-threaded lgical prcessrs Running vs. idle VMs Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

16 Sequential and cncurrent tasks Safe pcpu vercmmit RAM allcatin management VM memry vercmmit TPS Security issues Inter-VM TPS Memry ballning Memry cmpressin VMkernel swapping CPU and memry best practices Strage I/O cntrls ESXi and SSDs Perfrmance charts and advanced perfrmance charts Perfrmance analysis tls Windws Resurce Mnitr Task Manager Turbnmic Fglight vcenter Operatins Manager Dmain 6.0 Replicatin and High Availability Objective 6.1 Enable and cnfigure HA. HA clusters HA requirements ESXi hst failure HA hst failure alarms ESXi management netwrk islatin Islatin respnse plicy settings NIC teaming vswitch0 Secnd management prt Netwrk/datastre heartbeats PDL APD Datastre APD HA enablement and cnfiguratin Failures and respnses Restart pririties Hst failure and VM restart HA restart Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

17 Practive HA Admissin cntrl Percent Slt Failver Per-VM verride Maintenance Mde Objective 6.2 Prepare fr vsphere replicatin. VM dependency restart cnditin Resurces allcated Pwered n Guest heartbeats detected App heartbeats detected Restart cnditin timers Additinal delay VM dependency restart cnditin timeut Hst islatin respnse Epic VM failure Datastre permanent device lss VM mnitring sensitivity Replicatin targets Lcal Remte Target datastres VM synchrnizatin VM replicatin plicies RPO Ht replicatin plicy Recvery snapshts Replicated VMs VR Appliance Cnsle Web lgin VM replicatin cnfiguratin Replicated disk prperties Quiesces RPO Pint in time instances Site-t-site replicatin Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.

18 Replicatin timeznes Replicatin servers Objective 6.3 Replicate and recver VMs. Replicatin Replicatin status Replicatin mnitring Outging replicatins Incming replicatins Manual replicatin Pwer ff and recvery Recvery ptins With recent changes With available data Recvered VM cnnectin and testing Objective 6.4 Maintain cntinuus availability with VMware FT FT fast checkpinting FT Cluster and hst requirements FT VM requirements FT VM restrictins FT VMkernel prt cnfiguratins Cmpliance checks FT peratins Migrate secndary Test failver Cntinuing Educatin Requirements The Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal (CVP) VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 certificatin is valid fr 3 years frm the time the certificatin is granted. Yu must re-take the mst upt-date versin f the exam prir t the 3-year perid s end t maintain a cntinuusly valid certificatin. T view the Lgical Operatins Candidate Agreement, click here. Then purchase a vucher t take the exam by clicking here. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Blueprint Cpyright 2017 by Lgical Operatins Inc. All rights reserved. Lgical Operatins Certified Virtualizatin Prfessinal VMware vsphere 6.5 Level 2 Exam Objectives are subject t change withut ntice.