vSphere Identity Federation uses OAUTH 2.0 and OIDC to connect to these systems. The configuration of vCenter Identity federation has three principal phases: Creating an

Every vCenter has its own SSO domain and when installing an appliance you’ll need to determine to either join an existing one or create a

VMWare skyline is a proactive support technology that provides predictive analysis and proactive recommendations to help you avoid problems. You have to enable the Customer

There could be several kinds of failures you have to face with. Regional Datacenter Individual Racks Individual hosts OS / Apps Network A disaster recovery

Cold migrations: move powered-off or suspended VM’s between hosts or datastores hot migrations: move powered-on VM’s between hosts or datastores Cross-host migrations: allows you to

vCloud is the unified SDDC platform that bundles vSphere, vSAN and NSX into a natively integrated stack to deliver enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure. vCloud discovers the

In a SDDC all infrastructure is virtualized and the control of the datacenter is automated by software. vSphere is the foundation of the SDDC. Isolated

Some modern Intel CPUs implement a security extension called Intel Software Guard Extensions. It’s a processor-specific technology for application developers who seek to protect select

vSphere Trust Authority enhances workload security. It associates an ESXi host’s hardware root of trust to the workload itself. It’s a set of services to

It requires: Minimum of three hosts to be part of the vSphere cluster and configured for vSAN A vSAN network One SAS or SATA host

VSAN clusters host-attached HDDs or SSDs and creates an aggregated datastore shared by VM’s. Features of vSAN: Shared storage support On-disk format All-flash and hybrid

Use NIOC to allocate network bandwidth to business critical apps and to resolve situations where several traffic types compete for common resources. You’ll need an

Policies that are set at the standard switch level apply to all port groups on the standard switch by default Available network policies: Security: protects

standard switch Virtual switch that is configured for a single host Distributed switch Virtual switch that is configured for an entire datacenter Up to 2000

A datastore cluster is a collection of datastores with shared resources and a shared management interface. When you create the datastore cluster, you can use

Provides a base level of protection for your VMs by restarting VMs if a host fails and enables a collection of ESXi hosts to work

The VM DRS score is a metric that tracks a VMs execution efficiency on a given host. The cluster DRS score is a weighted average

EVC prevents vMotion migrations from failing because of incompatible CPU’s and works at the cluster level, using CPU baselines to configure all processors in the

DRS improves resource allocation across all hosts in a cluster. It aggregates computing capacity across a collection of servers into logical resource pools. It allows

A cluster is a collection of ESXi hosts and associated VMs with shared resources and a shared management interface.  A cluster shares physical resources between

Instant clone uses a copy-on-write architecture similar to that of containers, which means that an app running in a child VM tries to change a

NIOC is used for QoS on network traffic and is useful for vSAN when it shares the physical NIC with other traffic types.  Reserves bandwidth for

vSphere with Kubernetes will support up to three different types of storage: Ephemeral virtual disks Temporary storage, VD stores objects such as logs or other

The policies control which type of storage is provided for the virtual machine and how the virtual machine is placed within storage. Storage policies define

vSphere Storage API’s Array Integration (VAAI) These are Hardware Acceleration API’s that help arrays to integrate with vSphere for offloading certain storage operation to an

A datastore is a logical storage unit that can use disk space on one physical device or pan several physical devices. Datastores are used to

It is important to know that you can use several storage access protocols for your data. Below is a short summary of all the protocols

The vCenter Server is deployed as a self-contained appliance or VCSA and all services run in a single machine. This opposed to the previous versions

The components of a vSphere implementation The ESXi server is a hypervisor which virtualizes compute physical resources. The vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller is

Introduction The Professional VMware vSphere 7.x (2V0-21.20) Exam validates that an individual can implement, manage, and troubleshoot a VMware vSphere® 7 infrastructure, which includes VMware