Category : Certification
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 30, 2017 .
Skills and Abilities
Objective 2.1 - Create and Manage Logical Switches
- Create/Delete Logical Switches
- Assign and configure IP addresses
- Connect a Logical Switch to an NSX Edge
- Deploy services on a Logical Switch
- Connect/Disconnect virtual machines to/from a Logical Switch
- Test Logical Switch connectivity
Objective Prerequisites
The following prerequisites are assumed for this Objective:
- A working VMware vSphere 6.x environment.
- A working VMware NSX-V 6.x environment.
The following are additional prerequisites for creating a NSX Logical Switch:
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 30, 2017 .
Skills and Abilities
Objective 1.3 - Configure and Manage Transport Zones
- Create Transport Zones according to a deployment plan
- Configure the control plane mode for a Transport Zone
- Add clusters to Transport Zones
- Remove clusters from Transport Zones
Objective Prerequisites
The following prerequisites are assumed for this Objective:
- A working VMware vSphere 6.x environment.
- The VMware NSX Manager has been deployed.
- At least one VMware NSX Controller has been deployed (if required).
Objective Breakdown
Create Transport Zones according to a deployment plan
A Transport Zone defines which hosts a Logical Switch can reach. A Transport Zone can span multiple host clusters.
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 30, 2017 .
Skills and Abilities
Objective 1.2 - Prepare Host Clusters for Network Virtualization
- Prepare vSphere Distributed Switching for NSX
- Prepare a cluster for NSX
- Add/Remove Hosts from cluster
- Configure the appropriate teaming policy for a given implementation
- Configure VXLAN Transport parameters according to a deployment plan
Objective Prerequisites
The following prerequisites are assumed for this Objective:
- A working VMware vSphere 6.x environment.
- The VMware NSX Manager has been deployed.
- At least one VMware NSX Controller has been deployed (if required).
Objective Breakdown
Prepare vSphere Distributed Switching for NSX
I’m unsure what they will expect for us to configure. However, I would suggest that they will expect the creation of a Distributed Switch with the right port groups and the right MTU value (1600). I won’t be covering the creation of vDS here, if you are unsure how to do this, then check out the VMware article .
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 29, 2017 .
Skills and Abilities
Objective 1.1 - Deploy VMware NSX Infrastructure components
- Deploy the NSX Manager virtual appliance
- Integrate the NSX Manager with vCenter Server
- Configure Single Sign On
- Specify a Syslog Server
- Implement and Configure NSX Controllers
- Exclude virtual machines from firewall protection according to a deployment plan
Objective Prerequisites
The following prerequisites are assumed for this Objective:
- A working VMware vSphere 6.x environment.
Objective Breakdown
Deploy the NSX Manager virtual appliance
See HOWTO: Deploy and Configure the VMware NSX Manager Virtual Appliance - Part 1
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 21, 2017 .
Today marks another “milestone” in my personal certification journey. Following the successful completion of the VCAP6-CMA Deploy exam ( post ), I can now call myself a VMware Certified Implementation Expert 6 - Cloud Management and Automation.
Note: I’m still waiting for VMware Cert Manager and Acclaim to catch up!
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 21, 2017 .
Today marks the end of another certification journey. After taking the exam Wednesday afternoon, I received notification this morning that I passed the 3V0-633 VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 - Cloud Management and Automation - Deploy Exam.
Note: I am still waiting for Cert Manager to be updated but that should happen in the next 24hrs!
It has been a long and trying road getting this exam in the bag, and I have blogged about my experiences:
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 18, 2017 .
Objective Overview
Objective 5.3 - Create/Modify/Execute a vRealize Orchestrator Workflow
- Create/modify/troubleshoot actions
- Create/modify/execute vRO workflows
- Install/launch/use the vRO client
- Configure variable binding in a vRO workflow
- Perform logging from a vRO workflow
- Add schema elements to a vRO workflow
- Run workflow(s) in the vRO HTTP-REST plug-in to invoke a REST operation
- Modify a workflow to display a non-default icon
- Create a configuration element
- Modify a workflow to use to a configuration element
Objective Prerequisites
The following prerequisites are assumed for this Objective:
VMware vRealize Automation vRealize Application Services VCAP6 VCAP6-CMA
Written by Christopher Lewis on June 1, 2017 .
Today I sat the VMware Certified Professional 7 - Cloud Management and Automation exam and I’m glad to say I passed!
About the VCP7-CMA exam
The VCP7-CMA Exam is 85 questions in 110 minutes with a passing score of 300 / 500.
For more information seee the exam page.
My take on the exam
In my view, the exam was a fair reflection of the content on the Exam Blueprint and a vast improvement on the VCP6-Cloud exam I took 18 months ago.
Written by Christopher Lewis on March 20, 2017 .
It was not an unsurprising email I got last week from VMware certification services confirming what I expected but sincerely hoped wouldn’t happen. I had narrowly failed at my first attempt at the VCAP6-CMA Deploy exam (see my original post here ).
As I had complained/registered with the exam center after the exam, they raised a case with Pearson Vue for me. I took to twitter to vent my frustration at PearsonVue and with VMware Education about the quality of the exam (hardly a “world class service” that I’m now expected to pay more money for!) . Both of whom initially responded promptly. Eventually Pearson Vue put on their teflon suit and came back with the response (and I’m paraphrasing) “there is nothing we can do because the Labs are externally hosted by VMware”.
Written by Christopher Lewis on March 15, 2017 .
Objective Overview
Objective 8.2 - Configure vRealize Business Standard Costing and Reporting
Knowledge:
- Configure cost drivers according to a deployment plan:
- Assign cost for operating system licensing
- Edit cost for server hardware, storage, and network
- Create a monthly cost for facilities and maintenance
- Configure CPU and memory utilization costs
- Configure Consumption Analysis:
- Edit consumer hierarchy
- Edit price value according to a deployment plan
- Edit/Import budget to estimate your cost
- Generate vRealize Business vCenter Server report
- Generate a vRealize Automation Report
- Select and export the appropriate report
- Filter and Search for specific reports based on customer requirements
IMPORTANT NOTE: The steps in this guide utilise vRealize Business for Cloud. This is because vRB Standard does not support vRA 6.2.5, and this is required because I am running VMware vSphere 6.5. The steps will be similar but not identical in vRealize Business Standard.
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