vBrownBag EMEA is in the midst of recording sessions that cover the VCAP6-DCV Design (3V0-622) exam. If you are interested in presenting one of the exam objective, see the Call for Presenters post here.

Objective 1.3 –Build Availability Requirements into a vSphere 6.x Logical Design

Skills and Abilities

• Evaluate which logical availability services can be used with a given vSphere solution.
• Differentiate infrastructure qualities related to availability.
• Describe the concept of redundancy and the risks associated with single points of failure
• Explain class of nines methodology
• Determine availability component of service level agreements (SLAs) and service level management processes
• Determine potential availability solutions for a logical design based on customer requirements.
• Create an availability plan, including maintenance processes.
• Balance availability requirements with other infrastructure qualities.
• Analyze a vSphere design and determine possible single points of failure.

Additional Resources

• René van den Bedem’s post on “VCDX – Recoverability impacting Availability Explained”

Without further ado, the podcast recording can be found here: