Hello VM Community,
I am planning to write VCP-DCV exam, but it require training course. Couple of years ago it did training from New Horizons.
Below is the course overview and link for reference.
My question is: Does this training fulfill the VCP-DCV training requirement either for 6.5 or 6.7? If it does, what kind of document do I need to provide?
Thank you.
VMware® vSphere - Install, Configure, Manage v6.5
Course Overview
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6.5, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.5 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.5.
Who Should Attend
System Administrators and System Engineers
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: Describe the software-defined data center Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure Deploy an ESXi host Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ Use a local content library as an ISO store and deploy a virtual machine Describe vCenter Server architecture Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches Configure standard switch policies Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, virtual SAN, Fibre Channel, and VMware Virtual SAN™ Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots Create, clone, and export a vApp Describe and use the content library Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools Use esxtop to identify and solve performance issues Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster architecture Configure vSphere HA Manage vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations
Course Outline
1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Describe the content of this course
Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system
Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone
Identify additional resources
2 - INTRODUCTION TO VSPHERE & THE SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER
Describe the topology of a physical data center
Explain the vSphere virtual infrastructure
Define the files and components of virtual machines
Describe the benefits of using virtual machines
Explain the similarities and differences between physical architectures and virtual architectures
Define the purpose of ESXi
Define the purpose of vCenter Server
Explain the software-defined data center
Describe private, public, and hybrid clouds
3 - CREATING VIRTUAL MACHINES
Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
Identify the files that make up a virtual machine
Discuss the latest virtual machine hardware and its features
Describe virtual machine CPU, memory, disk, and network resource usage
Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
Discuss PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote direct memory access, and NVMe
Deploy and configure virtual machines and templates
Identify the virtual machine disk format
4 - VCENTER SERVER
Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Use vSphere Web Client
Backup and restore vCenter Server
Examine vCenter Server permissions and roles
Explain the vSphere HA architectures and features
Examine the new vSphere authentication proxy
Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
Access and navigate the new vSphere clients
5 - CONFIGURING & MANAGING VIRTUAL NETWORKS
Describe, create, and manage standard switches
Configure virtual switch security and loadbalancing policies
Contrast and compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
Describe the virtual switch connection types
Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
Use VLANs with standard switches
6 - CONFIGURING & MANAGING VIRTUAL STORAGE
Introduce storage protocols and storage device types
Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5
Introduce Virtual SAN
Describe guest file encryption
7 - VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT
Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
Modify and manage virtual machines
Clone a virtual machine
Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 12
Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore
Customize a new virtual machine using customization specification files
Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
Create, clone, and export vApps
Introduce the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
8 - RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & MONITORING
Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
Explain virtual memory reclamation techniques
Describe virtual machine overcommitment and resource competition
Configure and manage resource pools
Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
Use various tools to monitor resource usage
Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
Describe and deploy resource pools
Set reservations, limits, and shares
Describe expandable reservations
Schedule changes to resource settings
Create, clone, and export vApps
Use vCenter Server performance charts and esxtop to analyze vSphere performance
9 - VSPHERE HA & VSPHERE FAULT TOLERANCE
Explain the vSphere HA architecture
Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
Define clusterwide restart ordering capabilities
Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with Virtual SAN
Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines
Introduce vSphere Replication
Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data
10 - HOST SCALABILITY
Describe the functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster
Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
Describe the new capabilities for what-if analysis and proactive vSphere DRS
Highlight the evolution of vSphere DRS using predictive data from VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
Perform preemptive actions to prepare for CPU or memory changes
Describe the vCenter Server embedded vSphere Update Manager, VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI, and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy capabilities
Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for business continuity
11 - VSPHERE UPDATE MANAGER & HOST MAINTAINANCE
Describe the new vSphere Update Manager architecture, components, and capabilities
Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi, virtual machine and vApp patching
Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
Create patch baselines
Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
Scan and remediate hosts
VMware® vSphere - Install, Configure, Manage v6.5 | New Horizons
My recommendation would be to complete VCP6-DCV (on 6.0), then move to VCP-DCV 2019 (on 6.7) - to do this you'll need to pass 3 exams.
To complete VCP6-DCV, pass 2 exams as per the "no VCP certifications" path on this page: VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) - you'll need to do this by August 30th.
Then to move to VCP-DCV 2019, pass 1 exam as per the "a VCP5 or VCP6-DCV" path on this page: VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2019 (VCP-DCV 2019) - there is no time pressure for this.
To answer your questions:
1. As above, you can go straight from VCP6-DCV to VCP-DCV 2019, there is no need to also do VCP6.5-DCV
2. As above, you'll need to pass 1 exam.
3. No, VCP certifications do not expire now - the recertification policy was dropped earlier this year.
That course title and outline matches the official VMware class: https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=one&id_subject=76648
Which should mean that New Horizons are a VMware Authorised Training Center, and their class should meet the training requirement for the VCP6.5-DCV (but not the latest VCP-DCV 2019 which is based on vSphere 6.7) - check this here: https://www.vmware.com/education-services/certification/vcp6-5-dcv.html
New Horizons should have registered your class attendance on VMware's system as part of your attendance.
If you want to be 100% sure, ask New Horizons to confirm.
Thank you Scott, I am trying to reset my login for New Horizons learning. Lets see if I can get my class attendance, I have certificate of completion from New Horizons, will that work?
On it's own, I don't think so - I used to work for a VATC and we had every single student registered on VMware's myLearn system as part of them attending a class.
The result of that would be that every attending student would see the training when logging into their myLearn account - try that for yourself: VMware Education
If completion of the training is marked on myLearn, VMware knows it happened, and the student would meet the training requirement for VCP.
I came across another issue. I have VMware myLearn account but registered with my old work email address, cannot recall password and cannot reset password (I don't have access to that email). Yesterday, I've have created support ticket, waiting for response. Now my account is also locked cannot try with different password.
You can create a new account and request that the old account is merged with it.
I am in contact with support team, really appreciate your help Scott.
Thank you scott28tt, my account has been merged. Now I can see my training attendance in myLearning. I am going to send you a private message with couple of questions. Once again thank you for your help.
scott28tt for some reason I cannot send you the message, but here is what I would like to know.
As I have mentioned above that my account has been merged, now I have noticed that I've received training for 6.0 not 6.5. I have couple of questions
1. If I write exam for v6.0 before it expires will I be eligible to write 6.7 or I have to write 6.5 first. Both 6.0 and 6.5 are expiring at same time.
2. What are the requirements for upgrade to 6.7 after 6.0, do I need a training and to write foundation exam?
3. If I get certified with 6.0 will my certification expire when the exam going to retire?
I know I am starting little late but I need to utilize my training, not sure when I will be getting an opportunity for next training.
Appreciate your help.
Thank you.
My recommendation would be to complete VCP6-DCV (on 6.0), then move to VCP-DCV 2019 (on 6.7) - to do this you'll need to pass 3 exams.
To complete VCP6-DCV, pass 2 exams as per the "no VCP certifications" path on this page: VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) - you'll need to do this by August 30th.
Then to move to VCP-DCV 2019, pass 1 exam as per the "a VCP5 or VCP6-DCV" path on this page: VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2019 (VCP-DCV 2019) - there is no time pressure for this.
To answer your questions:
1. As above, you can go straight from VCP6-DCV to VCP-DCV 2019, there is no need to also do VCP6.5-DCV
2. As above, you'll need to pass 1 exam.
3. No, VCP certifications do not expire now - the recertification policy was dropped earlier this year.
Thank you Scott
scott28tt Thank you for your recommendation and guidance. Today, I have passed my VCP6-DCV exam just a week before its expiration date. These few months went very stressful, studying for certification (with limited time left) and working full time. I didn't want to miss the opportunity, as I took training for v6 few years ago.
Thanks again for your guidance.