VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6-DCV) now available

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VMware VCP DCV

VMware has just recently announced that the VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6-DCV) is now available. The new VCP6 exam is similar to the others in the past whereas the VCP6 aims to validate your ability to deploy, configure, administer and scale a vSphere virtualized data center, including administering and troubleshooting virtualization technologies such as:

  • vSphere HA and DRS Clusters
  • Storage virtualization using VMFS
  • Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control
  • Network virtualization using vSphere standard and distributed switches and Network I/O Control
  • vSphere management using vCenter Server and vRealize Operations Manager Standard
  • Virtual Machines

If you haven’t already started upgrading your VMware lab or production environment to vSphere 6 then I’d suggest watching the Upgrading Your vSphere Environment done by Chris Wahl (@ChrisWahl)

VMware Certified Professional 6 Requirements

VMware VCP6-dcv requirements

VMware VCP6-DCV Migration Paths

VMware vcp6-dcv migrations paths

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