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The tenth section of the 10 sections in the VCP 6.5 blueprint covers administering and managing virtual machines.

Practice Exams

Simon Long’s VCP 6.5 Practice Exams – Section 10.

Study Material

The tenth section is made up of 3 high level objectives;

• Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines and Templates
  • Vladan Study Guide; Create and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines and Templates
  • Official Blueprint Resource Link(s);
    • ESXi and vCenter Server 6.5 Documentation
• Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage a Content Library
  • Vladan Study Guide; Create and Manage a Content Library
  • Official Blueprint Resource Link(s);
    • ESXi and vCenter Server 6.5 Documentation
• Objective 10.4* – Consolidate Physical Workloads using VMware vCenter Converter
  • Vladan Study Guide; Consolidate Physical Workloads using VMware vCenter Converter
  • Official Blueprint Resource Link(s);
    • VMware vCenter Converter Standalone User’s Guide
    • Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter

*10.3 has been removed by VMware and is not covered in the exam but the objective numbering remains.

Full Section 10 Objectives List

• Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines and Templates
  • Determine how using a shared USB device impacts the environment
  • Configure virtual machines for vGPUs, DirectPath I/O and SR-IOV
  • Configure virtual machines for multicore vCPUs
  • Differentiate virtual machine configuration settings
  • Interpret virtual machine configuration files (.vmx) settings
  • Enable/disable advanced virtual machine settings
• Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage a Content Library
  • Publish a content catalog
  • Subscribe to a published catalog
  • Determine which privileges are required to globally manage a content catalog
  • Compare the functionality of Automatic sync and On-Demand sync
  • Configure Content Library to work across sites
  • Configure Content Library authentication
  • Set/configure Content Library roles
  • Add/remove Content Libraries
• Objective 10.3 – Objective 10.3 is no longer covered in the exam content.
• Objective 10.4 – Consolidate Physical Workloads using VMware vCenter Converter
  • Install vCenter Converter standalone instance
  • Convert physical workloads using vCenter Converter
  • Modify server resources during conversion
  • Interpret and correct errors during conversion
  • Deploy a physical host as a virtual machine using vCenter Converter
  • Collect diagnostic information during conversion operation
  • Resize partitions during the conversion process
  • Determine which virtual disk format to use