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If the DRS migration threshold is set to Conservative, the target host load standard deviation will report what value?
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N/A (No attempt to load-balance is made with this setting selected.)
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vCenter Server requires what bit level and the DSN requires what bit level?
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The vCenter Server requires a 64 bit OS
The DSN also requires a 64 bit length |
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Name the three components that make up VMware Data Recovery
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1. Client Plug-In
2. Backup Appliance 3. File-level Restore Client |
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Name the virtual disk format that is required for Fault Tolerance
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Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed Format
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If an ESXi host becomes unreachable on the network what part of DCUI will accommodate troubleshooting the issue
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Use the Configure Management Network to resolve the issue
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Name the CLI Command used in the command shell that exports diagnostic data from the ESXi Host
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The command is: /usr/sbin/vm-support
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Describe where one locates the VMware Data Recovery FLR
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The VMware Data Recover FLR is located on the VMware Data Recovery Installation Media
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Describe what is the maximum amount of RAM allowed for an ESXi Host
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The RAM limit is 2TB
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What is used in a cluster to allow greater vMotion compatibility for all the different ESXi hosts in the cluster
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Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
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Name the file extension for a virtual hard disk file that contains the guest OS data
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-flat.vmdk
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Name the three admission control policies used in vSphere HA
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1. Host failure the cluster tolerates
2. Percentage of resources reserved as failover spare capacity 3. Specifiy failover hosts |
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Describe the file used to configure the VMware tools from the command line on a Windows Server
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VmwareToolboxCmd.exe
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How many receivers is vCenter Server allowed to send to SNMP traps to using it's SNMP agent
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vCenter is allowed, using its SNMP agent to send traps up to four SNMP receivers
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Describe the three things that a VMware Snap Shot will preserve in ESXi
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1. Virtual Machine Settings
2. Power State 3. Disk State |
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Name the four policies that an ESXi vSwitch and dvSwitch share in common
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The four things in common are:
1. Failover and Load Balancing policy 2. VLAN policy 3. Security policy 4. Traffic Shaping Policy |
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Describe what the single VMware supported solution is for maintainining application level HA for vCenter Server
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VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
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Name the affinity rule type that will utilize DRS Group Manager
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The affinity rule that utilizes DRS is VM-Host
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On which version of ESXi were Datastore Clusters introduced?
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Datastore Clusters are used in ESXi5 and above
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What is the maximum number of dvSwicthes allowed in a vCenter Server instance?
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One vCenter Server instance is allowed to have up to 32 dvSwitches
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When connected to a vCenter Server with with the vSpehere Client and you need to monitor the hardware based activity on am ESXi Host what tab must be selected to accomplish this
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You must first select one of the ESXi hosts from the pool, located on the left hand side of the vSphere Client display and then select the tab across the top and to the right of the host you selected, locate the Hardware Status tab and from there you can monitor the hardware activity for the Host under review
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Which licensing mode is required for VSA (vSphere Storage Appliance)
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The essentials plus or greater license is required for VSA to be implented
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Name the twp places where routing and DNS can be configured on an ESXi Host
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The two places to configure routing and DNS is either in the vCenter Server with the vSphere Client or the DCUI
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Name the one thing in VM traffic that a MAC Address Changes policy will affect
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The MAC Address Changes policy will affect the any and all received traffic
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vSphere Update Manager 5 is compatible with which versions of vCenter Server
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vSphere Update Manager version 5 is compatible with vCenter Server 5 and up
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Name the two modes that are compatible with independent disks
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1. Independent Persistent
2. Independent Non-Persistent |
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Name the 3 types of pvLAN ports in ESXi
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The three types of LAN ports associated with ESXi are:
1. Promiscuous 2. Isolated 3. Community |
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What are the maximum number of machines that the VMware Data Recovery Appliance will be allowed to backup
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The maximum number is 100 VMs
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All operations comitted to an ESXi server in lockdown mode must origininate from where
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All operations to ESXi server in lockdown has to originate from the vCenter Server managing the host
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Virtual Machine Hardware Version 10 offers support for how many X amount of CPUs and how much y amount of RAM
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1. 32 CPUs
2. 1 TB RAM |
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Name the four options available when creating VM to Host affinty rules
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1. Must Run On Hosts In Group
2. Should Run On Hosts In Group 3. Must Not Run On Hosts In Group and, 4. Should Not Run On Hosts In Group |
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When cloning a virtual machine what two things are required
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The two things rrequired are
1. vCenter Server and, 2, vSphere Client |
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What is the largest VMFS-5 volume size possible in vSphere 5 or greater
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The largest VMFS-5 volume is 64TB
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What three configurable options are used when creating a traffic shaping policy
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The three options include:
1. Average bandwidth 2. Peak bandwidth 3. Burst size |
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What's the maximum level of iSCSI or FC LUNs supported per server
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You can have up to 256 LUNs per server
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Which distributed switch version is the latest version in vSphere 5 and 6
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The latest for for a dvSwitch in vSphere 5 is 5.0.0, and the latest in version 6 is 6.0
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Describe what the use case is for templates in vCenter Server
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The use case is for deploying multiple consistent images from a protected virtual machine
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Describe the three default system roles in vCenter Server
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1. No Access
2. Read Only 3. Administrator |
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Describe the smallest block size allowed with VMFS-3
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The smallest block size when using VMFS-3 is 1MB
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What would be the reason for creating a hierarchy of resource pools on a stand alone server in a DRS-enabled cluster
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The one reason for creating a hierarchy of resource pools or a DRS cluster is Root Resource Pools
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Can the VMware File Level Recovery client be sued with versions of Red Hat and Ubuntu
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Yes. The VMware File Level Recovery tool can be used with Red Hat and/or Ubuntu
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Name the two fields that need to be filled out in order to configure SMTP on a vCenter Server
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The two fields that are required to be filled in are:
1. SMTP Server 2. SMTP Sender |
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With what are permissions in vSphere applied when pairing a user or group?
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Permissions are applied in vSphere when a User or Group is paired with a role
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Name the three VLAN tagging configurations in vSphere
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1. External Switch Tagging (EST)
2. Virtual Switch Tagging (VST) and, 3. Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT) |
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Describe whether vMotion can be used or not to migrate virtual machines to new data centers
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No. vMotion can not be used to migrate VM to new data centers
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Describe which Load Balancing Policy only on a dvSwitch
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The only load balancing policy available for a dvSwitch is Route Based on Physical NIC Load
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From where in vSphere is the ESXi Host Agent restarted when it has stopped working
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It can only be restarted from the ESXi Shell
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Please describe what happens to a VMDK's files when a snap shot has been taken of the virtual machine
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When a snap shot is taken of a VM the VMDK and the VM are placed with a lock that puts the VMs VMDK files in read only mode
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Describe the two ways to increase capacity of the VMFS volume
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The two ways to increase the size of a VMFS volume are:
1. Grow Extent and, 2. Add Extent |
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Describe the three vSphere editions that vCenter Server is available in
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1. VMware vCenter Server Essentials
2. VMware vCenter Server Foundation 3. VMware vCenter Server Standard |
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What is need to be configured on a VMware host to ensure that the server's time remains accurate
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NTP Must be configure to ensure the server's time remains in sync
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What is used so that a child resource pool can access resources from it's parent
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What is needed is the Expandable Reservation Perameter
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What is the largest block size that is allowable in VMFS-5?
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The largest block size that is available in VMFS-5 is 8MB
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What is the largest allowable block size when using VMFS-3?
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8MB is the largest
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When an NFS datastore gets unmounted how is re-mounted?
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It will have to be added to the ESXi host again
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If a VMFS datastore gets deleted what happens to the data on it
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The data deleted
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What is the smallest block size available in VMFS-5?
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The smallest allowable is 1MB
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What is the smallest usable block size for VMFS-3?
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The smallest is 1MB
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What version of NFS is supported for use in vSphere for use as a Datastore
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NFS 3 is what is supported as of ESXi5 but with ESXi 6 NFS 4.1 is now supported
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What are the largest VMDK file sizes in vSphere 5, 5.5, and 6
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In vSphere 5 the VMDK is 2TB minus 512.
In 5.5 and 6 the largest VMDK is 64 TB. There are some real limitations to this limit. You can only create a 62.0 TB VMDK and that is as long as you are not using MBR. MBR is limited to a 2TB limit. If you are using MBR you will also have to upgrade the Windows file system to take advantage of larger sizes. that means you will need move from MBR GUID partition tables on any Windows Servers that were formatted with MBR |
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What is the largest VMFS volume size in vSphere 5 and 6
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64TB
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With vSphere 6 can VMFS-3 be used?
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If VMFS-3 is alread deployed and you have upgraded to vSphere 6 but have not upgraded the VMFS to 5 then you can use 3 but you will get errors. VMFS-3 is no longer supported in vSphere 6. If you are using VMFS-3 then you should upgrade to VMFS-5
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What ESXi or ESX hosts allowed to access VMFS-5 data stores
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The only VMware hypervisor that can access VMFS-5 data stores are ESXi hosts. ESX can not access VMFS-5
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What is required before you can upgrade VMFS-2 data stores to VMFS-5 data stores
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VMFS-2 will first have to be upgraded to VMFS-3 and from there to VMFS-5
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Name the three default path selection policies in vSphere 5 and 6
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The three default path policies include:
1. Fixed Path policy 2. Recently Used Path policy 3. Round Robin policy |
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What RDM can be used to allow greater than 2 TB minus the 512 limit capacity for a VM?
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The RDM (Raw Device Mapping) that can be used for greater than 2TB capacity on a VM is called Physical Compatibility Mode
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How many NAS mounts per ESXi host in vSphere 5 and 6 are supported?
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You can have up to 256 NAS mount points
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Describe the two ways of increasing the capacity of a VMFS volume
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The two ways are:
1. Grow Extent and, 2. Add Extent |
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What are the maximum number vNICs required by VSA
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Four
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Which licensing mode is required for VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance)
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You will need essentials plus or greater
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What's needed for creating and managing a VSA Cluster
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You will need to have the VSA Manager in the vSphere Client
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What is the minimum and maximum of hosts that can belong to a VSA Cluster
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Two hosts are the minimum but no more that three are allowed which is the maximum you can have
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Is it possible for vCenter Server to run as a VM in a VSA Cluster?
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No. This is not possible.
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What two connection types can you get with a vSwitch
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1. Virtual Machine Connection
2. VMKernel Connection |
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If you add or remove vmnic to or from a vSwitch with an active VM Connection type is that going to be disruptive to the system and virtual machines running?
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No. It is non-disruptive
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Can a vSwitch be removed if virtual machines are connected to it?
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No.
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Name the three vSwitch security policies
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The three security policies are:
1. Promiscuous mode, 2. MAC Address Changes Mode and, 3. Forged Transmits mode |
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What type of port group is needed to access an NFS share
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VMkernel Port Group is what you will need to access an NFS share
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dvSwicthes require vCenter Server as well as what edition of vSphere
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You will also need Enterprise Plus in order to have the functionality of dvSwitches
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What 3 types of PVLAN ports are there in vSphere
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The three supported PVLAN ports include:
1. Promiscuous, 2. Isolated and, 3. Community |
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Which distributed switch version is the latest in vSphere 6
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vSphere Distributed Switch 6.0
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Which kind of virtual switch will support private vlans?
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Only dvSwitches support private vlans
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Which kind of vSwitch will allow a VLAN range to be specified
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You can only accomplish that with dvSwitches
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Describe the three kinds of port bindings in vSphere
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The three kinds of bindings are:
1. Static Binding 2. Dynamic Binding 3. Ephemeral Binding |
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How many vMotion port groups per host can be enabled?
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Only one
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Which kind of virtual switch allows bi-directional virtual machine rate limiting - also called traffic shaping
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Only dvSwitches have this ability
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Name the four policies that vSwitches and dvSwitches have in common
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The four policies in common are:
1. Failover and Load Balancing policy, 2. VLAN Policy, 3. Security Policy and, 4. Traffic Shaping Policy |
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Which load balancing policy is only available to a dvSwitch
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That policy is called: Route Based on Physical NIC Load
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TSO is enabled on VMs by using what two network adapter types
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VMXNET 2 and VMXNET 3
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Name the three VLAN tagging configurations used in vSphere
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1. External Switch Tagging (EST)
2. Virtual Switch Tagging (VST) 3. Virtual Guest Tagging |
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Jumbo Frames are enabled on VMs using these two network adapter types. What are they?
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1. VMXNET 2 and,
2. VMXNET 3 |
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What are the three configurable options that make up a traffic shaping policy?
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1. Average Bandwidth,
2. Peak Bandwidth and, 3. Burst Size |
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Which load balancing policy requires that Etherchannel be enabled and configured on the physical switch
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That is Route Based on IP Hash policy
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Name the three default roles in vCenter Server
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1. No Access,
2. Read Only and, 3. Administrator |
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Permissions are applied in vCenter Server by pairing a user or group with what?
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Roles
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User permissions always take precedence over what?
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User permissions take precedence over group permissions
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Any permission defined on a child object will do what to permissions propagated from the parent object?
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permissions defined at the child will override will over ride permissions inherited from the parent
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Name the three start up policies available to services when configured in the ESXi Firewall
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The three start up policies are:
1. Start Automatically When Ports Are Open And Stop When Ports Are Closed, 2. Start And Stop With The Host and, 3. Start And Stop Manually |
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All operations performed against an ESXi host in Lockdown Mode must originate from where in vSphere?
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The vCenter Server managing the ESXi Host
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The MAC Address Changes policy will affect VM traffic in what way?
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The MAC Address Changes policy affect traffic that is received when it is enabled
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In what will the Forged Transmits policy affect VM traffic
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Forged Transmits policy when enabled will affect traffic that is submitted
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In vCenter, a permission is a role plus a user or group that is assigned to what
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A permission is a role plus a user or a group that is assigned to an inventory object
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In which type of cloud would consumers pay for resources from a third party delivering those resources
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That would Public Cloud
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Name the three editions of vSphere that vCenter Server is available with
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1. vCenter Server Essentials,
2. vCenter Server Foundation and, 3. vCenter Server Standard |
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Which versions of ESXi will the vCenter server require to operate
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ESXi 5 and above
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How many ESXi hosts and VMs will vSphere's bundled version of SQL Server Express support?
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The SQL Server Express that comes with vSphere will support 5 Hosts and 50 VMs which is an average of 10 VMs per every one host
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What is the VMware supported solution will support application level HA for vCenter Server
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VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
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What needs to be configured on an ESXi host to esnure that time is kept in sync with an accurate time source?
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NTP must be configured on the ESXi hosts.
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ESXi 5 and 6 can edit, create, and run which versions of virtual machine hardware |
ESXi 5 is compatible with both VM Hardware 7 and 8. ESXi 6 i compatible with 9 also |
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Virtual Machine Hardware version 8 offers support for how many CPUs and how much memory? |
There is support with virtual machine hardware 8 for 32 CPUs and 1TB of RAM |
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What is the name of the file used to configure VMware tools from the command line on a Windows Server? |
That command is VmwareToolboxCmd.exe |
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Describe the two modes that can be used with independent disks |
The two modes are: 1. Independent Persistent and, 2. Independent Non-Persistent |
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Name 3 kinds of SCSI bus sharing |
The three variations of SCSI bus sharing include: 1. None, 2. Virtual and, 3. Physical |
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Describe the 3 different virtual disk formats |
The three formats include: 1. Flat 2, Thin Provisioned and, 3. Thick Provisioned |
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What are shares as they are in ESXi and vSphere |
In ESXi Shares are used to specify the relative importance of a virtual machine as it pertains to a relevant resource |
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Under which conditions can a VMware Converter import a Hyper-V VM |
That is the Hyper-V machine must be fully powered off before conversion takes place |
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Which edition of vSphere has to be licensed in order to use vApps |
You must have Enterprise or Enterprise Plus |
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Name the two formats that a vApp may be exported in |
vApps can exported either in: 1. OVF (Folder of Files) or, 2. OVA (Single File) |
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Name the three IP allocation properties available to vApps |
The three allocation properties include: 1. Fixed, 2. Transient and, 3. DHCP |
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What is the maximum amount of RAM that is available for an ESXi Host |
2TB |
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What are the maximum number of Fibre Channel or iSCSI LUNs supported per server |
256 LUNs are supported per VM |
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What are the maximum amount of port groups allowed per vSwitch? |
256 Port Groups are the max |
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What are the maximum number of dvSwitches per vCenter Server |
You can have up to 32 dvSwitches per vCenter Server instance |
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What are the maximum number of ESXi Hosts per vCenter Server instance |
You can have up to 1000 hosts to a vCenter Server instance. |
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Cloning a virtual machine requires two things. What are they? |
To clone a virtual machine you will need: 1. vCenter Server and, 2. vSphere Client |
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What happens to the .vmx file extension when a a VMware server has been successfully converted to a template? |
Whenever a virtual machine is converted to a template the .vmx extension will change to a .vmtx extension. In that way you can be sure that file is that of a template and not a machine. |
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What is used in order to deploy an OVF template |
The vSphere Client is used whenever an OVF is deployed |
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What are the use cases for VMware templates in vCenter Server? |
The only use case that applies is an important one: to deploy multiple consistent images from a protected virtual machine. |
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Describe what is the file extension for a virtual hard disk file that contains the guest OS data |
This is called the -flat.vmdk |
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What is the .vswp file in VMs working location |
That .vswp file is called the virtual machine swap file |
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What are the two storage capability types that are used in VMware Storage Profiles |
The two storage capability types used in storage profiles are: 1. System Defined and, 2. User Defined |
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Describe what option can be used to slow down a VM that is having a problem running or installing sofwtware |
Use the Disable Acceleration option to slow down a machine that is not installing running software correctly |
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Wake on LAN is supported for which Guest OSes? |
Wake on LAN is supported only in Windows OSes |
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Describe what is used to that enables ESXi hosts in a cluster to exchange network heartbeats by way of the HA Agents that run over the management networks |
Host Monitoring |
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If a Master in a VMware Cluster resource stops receiving heartbeats from one of it's slave hosts what does the master do to determine if that slave is partitioned, isolated, or has failed? |
The master uses datastore heartbeating to make the determination of whether that slave is isolated, partitioned, or otherwise has failed. |
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Describe here what are the three admission control policies that are used in vSphere HA |
The three admission control policies are: 1. Host Failures The Cluster Tolerates, 2. Percentage Of Cluster Resources Reserved As Failover Spare Capacity and, 3. Specify Failover Hosts |
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Name the four vSphere HA restart priority settings |
The four restart priority settings include: 1. Disabled, 2. Low, 3. Medium and, 4. High |
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Name the three vSphere DRS Cluster automation levels |
The three DRS Cluster Automation Levels are: 1. Manual 2. Partially Automated 3. Fully Automated |
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Name the two types of relationships that can be established with affinity rules |
The two relationships that can be established through affinity rules are: 1. Affinity and, 2. Anti-Affinity |
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If VM-VM affinitt rules are in conflict with each other, which of the rules will be disabled as a result of that conflict |
It will always be the newer of the conflicting rules |
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What is used in a a cluster to allow greater vMotion compatibility for the different ESXi hosts in the cluster |
Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) will be used to assist the cluster in greater vMotion flexibility and compatibility |
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Which versions of ESXi are datastore clusters supported in? |
ESXi 5 up and 6 |
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How many vCPUs does VMware FT support in a virtual machine? |
VMware's Fault Tolerance (FT) will support only one vCPU in a VM |
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What are the two was to test Fault Tolerance in VMware? |
1. Pull the power from an ESXi Host or, 2. FT Test Failover |
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What is the virtual disk format that is required for VMware Fault Tolerance |
Thick Provisioned Eager-Zeroed format |
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Name the two VMkernel network connections that are required to use VMware FT |
1. vMotion 2. Fault Tolerance Logging |
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Can the vCenter Server be protected with VMware FT in a supported configuration |
No |
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What are the minimum number of ESXi hosts required for implementing VMware Fault Tolerance |
Two ESXi Hosts |
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What is needed for a child resource pool to be able to request resources from its parent or ancestors |
What is required for a child resource pool to access parental resources is the implementation of the Expandable Reservation parameter |
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What is the basis for any hierarchy or resource pools that exist on stand-alone hosts or in DRS-enabled clusters? |
The answer is Root Resource Pool that is the basis |
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Can resource pools be created with the vSphere Web Client? |
Yes. They can. |
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What is the one thing that needs to be used to set an upper bound for memory and CPU resources |
The one thing that is needed is Limits |
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What can be used to guarantee a minimum allocation of CPU and Memory for a resource pool |
Reservation are what is used to guarantee that |
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Can vMotion be used to migrate virtual machines to new datacenters |
NO. It can not |
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Can a suspended virtual machine be moved to a new datacenter |
Yes. It can. |
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How can one use Storage vMotion without a license? |
When Elevation Mode is used Storage vMotion can then be used even if there is no license |
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Can virtual machines that use a virtual device backed by a device that is not accessible on the destination host be migrated with vMotion? |
No. |
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To use EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatability) in a cluster, can both Intel and AMD processors be used for the hosts? |
No |
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Name three location where virtual machine swap files can be stores |
The three locations that VM swap files can be store in are: 1. Default 2. Always Stored With The Virtual Machine and, 3. Store In The Host Swap File's Datastore |
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When an individual virtual machine swap file location conflicts with the settings specified on an ESXi host. Which setting will be effective? |
The virtual machine's swap file will win the day and be effective. |
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Can virtual disk formats be changed during a Storage vMotion |
Yes |
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Name three things that a snapshot will preserve |
The three things a snapshot will preserve are: 1. Virtual Machine Settings, 2. Power State and, 3. Disk State |
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What will happen to a virtual machine's VMDK files when a snapshot is taken of the virtual machine? |
The files are always placed in a read-only mode |
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What level of consistency will be achieved with a Windows 2003 guest OS running the latest version of the VMware Tools |
Consistency will be achieved at the Application Level |
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Is it possible for a virtual machine with a physical compatibility mode Raw Device Mappings (RDM) to have a snap shot taken of it? |
No |
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In the Snapshot Manager, what are the two configurable options that can be selected? |
The two configurable options in the Snapshot Manager include: 1. Snapshot The Virtual Machine's Memory and, 2. Quiesce Guest File System - This will, however, need VMTools installed |
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Deleting a virtual machine snapshot will do what to the current state of the virtual machine |
Deleting a VM snapshot with commit the current state of the VM |
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What are the three components that make up VMware Data Recovery |
1. Client Plug-In, 2. Backup Appliance and, 3. File Level Restore Client |
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Which ESXi or ESX host versions are supported with VMware Data Recovery? |
ESX/ESXi 4, ESXi 5 and up, and ESXi 6 |
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What are the maximum number of virtual machines that the VMware Data Recovery appliance can back up |
VMware Data Appliance can backup a max of 100 VMs |
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Can the VMware File Level Recovery client be used with versions of Red Hat and Ubuntu |
Yes. It can. |
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Where is the VMware Data Recovery - File Level Restore (FLR) client located? |
Look on the the VMware Data Recovery installation media |
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Name the built in tool for testing the restore process in VMware Data Recovery |
It is called Restore Rehearsal From Last Backup |
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Which versions of ESX/ESXi host version will work with Update Manager? |
You will need at least ESX/ESXi 3.5 or higher |
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Which version of ESX/ESXi hosts do Host Profiles require and with which vSphere editions?
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You will need ESX/ESXi 4 or newer and you will need the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere Server |
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What bit level OS does the vSphere Update Manager require for installation and what bit level DSN is required for an externally-connected database? |
64 bit for the OS but only 32 bit for the DSN for the database |
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What versions of vCenter Server are vSphere Manager 6 compatible with? |
vCenter Server 5 and up |
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Name the tab that is selected to be able to monitor ESXi hardware health when connected directly to the ESXi host with the vSphere Client? |
To monitor hardware health when directly connected to the ESXi host using the vSphere Client you need select the Configuration tab |
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When connected to vCenter Server using the vSphere Client which tab is selected to monitor the ESXi hardware health |
Select the Hardware Status tab |
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Name the command that can be used in the ESXi Shell to export diagnostic information from an ESXi host |
That command is: /use/sbin/vm-support |
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After installing ESXi and the host becomes un-reachable on the network, what setting in the DCUI can be used to diagnose and correct this problem? |
Use the Configure Management Network |
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Which untilty can be used from the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) to monitor ESXi host performance |
Use resxtop |
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What metric is used to define the average amount of time in milliseconds that the VMkernel spends servicing I/O requests |
To do this use the KAVG/cmd metric |
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Which metric is defined as the total number of I/O operations per second |
CMDS/s |
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When the the DRS migration threshold is set to Conservative what value will the target host load standard deviation report back to the system |
When set to conservative the target host value will report back as NA. NA means there was no attempt to load balance with that setting selected |
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Scheduled tasks are a feature of which VMware product? |
Scheduled Tasks area feature of vCenter Server |
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Can scheduled tasks be created to delete virtual machines? |
No. They can not. |
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vCenter Server includes an SNMP agent that can be configured to send SNMP traps to how many receivers? |
Up to four receivers |
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vCenter Server Logging is configured by default at which level? |
vCenter Server Logging is configured by dafault for Information Logging level (Normal Level) |
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Does vCenter Server have to be running in order to create a log bundle? |
No. It does not have to be running. |
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From where in vSphere is the ESXi Host Agent restarted from? |
The Host Agent is restarted from the ESXi shell |
