Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA)

1. Virtualization Concepts: Comprehensive understanding of virtualization technologies, including hypervisors, virtual machines, and virtualized networking and storage.

2. Red Hat Virtualization Platform: Proficiency in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Red Hat Virtualization environments using Red Hat Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts.

3. Administration Skills: Ability to perform administrative tasks such as creating and managing virtual machines, configuring storage and networking, and monitoring virtualization resources.

4. Security and Compliance: Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards for virtualized environments, including user access controls, network security, and data protection.

Before learning Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA), you should ideally have the following skills:

1. Linux Administration: Proficiency in administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a similar Linux distribution is essential, as RHCVA involves managing virtualization environments on Linux hosts.

2. Virtualization Concepts: Understanding of virtualization principles and concepts, including hypervisors, virtual machines, storage virtualization, and network virtualization.

3. Networking: Familiarity with networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, and firewall configurations, as virtualized environments often require networking setup and configuration.

4. Storage: Basic knowledge of storage technologies, such as NAS (Network Attached Storage) and SAN (Storage Area Network), as well as storage protocols like NFS and iSCSI.

By learning Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA), you gain the following skills:

1. Virtualization Management: Ability to deploy, configure, and manage virtualized environments using Red Hat Virtualization technology.

2. Hypervisor Administration: Proficiency in administering the Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor, including installation, configuration, and maintenance tasks.

3. Resource Management: Skills to allocate and manage compute, storage, and networking resources within virtualized environments efficiently.

4. High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Understanding of implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions for virtualized workloads using Red Hat Virtualization.