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Required Training for VCP6.5-DCV or VCP6.7-DCV

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

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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.


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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.


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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?

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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.


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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.

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You can create a new account and request that the old account is merged with it.

mylearn_support@vmware.com


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I am in contact with support team, really appreciate your help Scott.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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Thank you Scott

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BuddyM
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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.