This guide can be used in preparation for the VCP5-DCV (VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization) certification. VCP5-DCV (VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization) is a cerfitication from VMware that deals with data center virtualization. This certification confirms that you have the education needed to successfully install, manage, and deploy VMware vSphere environments.

You will learn how to manage virtual machines in a VMware vSphere environment. vSphere is a software suite that includes components like ESXi, vCenter Server, vSphere Client, vCenter Orchestrator, vSphere Update Manager and so on.

Here is a list of topics included in this guide:

vSphere overview
Getting started
vCenter SSO and vCenter Inventory
Virtual machines
Virtual networks
Storage
iSCSI
NFS
Fibre Channel
Datastores
VM migration
VM snapshots
vApps
Security
Manage resources
Reporting
Alarms
High Availability
Fault Tolerance
Scalability

Note that this is an unofficial guide. VMware, Inc. is in no way affiliated with this app.