VCP-DCV case studies
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The VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) is a vendor credential tied to VMware's data center virtualization product line, which is now published and supported under Broadcom. It is aimed at virtualization administrators, infrastructure engineers, and consultants who build, run, and troubleshoot vSphere-based environments - people whose day-to-day work involves compute, storage, and network virtualization inside a software-defined data center rather than single-host administration. The VCP-DCV case studies are 5 cases and about 4,615 words.
1Month-End Batch: A 24 vCPU Database VM That Never Gets Migrated
Northwind's ERP cluster has three identical hosts: each is 2 x 12-core Xeon with hyper-threading enabled (48 logical CPUs) and 768 GB RAM. The month-end batch runs inside a single VM configured with 24 vCPU and 256 GB RAM (Windows Server + SQL Server).
912 words, about 5 min2N+2 Resilience on a Cluster That Is Already Overcommitted
A financial services firm runs one 6-host cluster. Each host has 2 x 16 cores and 512 GB RAM.
940 words, about 5 min3vMotion Crawls After the 25 GbE Refresh
After a network refresh, a 4-host cluster runs a single vSphere Distributed Switch with two 25 GbE uplinks per host in one LAG, negotiated with LACP to a top-of-rack MLAG pair. The VDS is set to MTU 9000.
896 words, about 4 min4The Backup Job That Left Fourteen Deltas Behind
A backup product snapshots each VM, backs it up, then removes the snapshot. Over a long weekend the backup server lost its repository for about 60 hours while jobs kept retrying.
944 words, about 5 min5EVC Was Never Enabled, and Now Half the VMs Cannot Move
A cluster was built with three hosts of one CPU generation, and EVC was never enabled because it was not needed at the time. Six months later three hosts of a newer generation were added to the same cluster.
923 words, about 5 min