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Certified Virtualization Expert Vce

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1. You can't automatically...
SQL Native Client
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
install VMTools on an OS
Install DBA server - create a dba - establish an ODBC connection - install vcenter - install any plugins

2. In ESX you have a VM that hosts a public website and you want to ensure excessive traffic from the website will not prevent other VMs from fully utilizing the NIC
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
Create a separate portgroup and attach a vm running the web service to it.
VMware capacity planner
8MB - creates 1.5 TB

3. What can you install vcenter on?
xp 32bit+
ESX
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
Inside the VMs guest OS

4. What tool will determine necessary hardware to run your new infrastructure for your conversion?
ESX Alternative to Capacity Planner - it is AKA Mini-Capacity Planner
255GB
VMware capacity planner
Install DBA server - create a dba - establish an ODBC connection - install vcenter - install any plugins

5. What is best practice to resize during an ESX installaiton?
SQL Native Client
Promiscuous - Isolated Community
Swap - root and /var/log
You don't have to - the customization files are preinstalled on the vCenter Server

6. In ESX - how do you set the IP addres for the virtual Nic?
install VMTools on an OS
Inside the VMs guest OS
On a harddrive or shipped from the factory in EPROM
8MB - creates 1.5 TB

7. How to provide space to a VMFS datastore without moving data somewhere else?
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
Inside the VMs guest OS
hard disk configuration file
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN

8. How many LUNs can a Fibre Channel san recognize during bootup and install?
256 on bootup - 128 on install
When you enable it - it is off by default
VMware capacity planner
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN

9. How do you change DNS behavior in ESX?
xp 32bit+
Inside the VMs guest OS
ESX Alternative to Capacity Planner - it is AKA Mini-Capacity Planner
change the etc/nssswitch.conf

10. How do you create a 1.5 TB hard drive - what block size do you need?
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
When you enable it - it is off by default
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN
8 MB

11. Where can ESX 4.x be installed?
install VMTools on an OS
you can't
On a harddrive or shipped from the factory in EPROM
Mini-Capacity Planner known as Guided Consolodation

12. Which services need access to the iSCSI SAN to run?
256 on bootup - 128 on install
VMware capacity planner
the vmkernel port
contains all data that makes up the VM

13. What is the upgrade order of ESX?
vmkernel port
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
Level 4 Statistics
hard disk configuration file

14. How many NICs does ESX support?
32
255GB
hard disk configuration file
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools

15. Contrast VMWare Server and workstation in terms of installation as and running
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
hard disk configuration file
VMWare Server and Workstation both install as an application and run as a user mode application - but Server can run as a service
VMware capacity planner

16. How do you perform a text mode upgrade of ESX?

17. What is Vswif?
Level 4 Statistics
The port for the service console
VMWare Server and Workstation both install as an application and run as a user mode application - but Server can run as a service
32

18. What does vCenter Server linked mode require?
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
When you enable it - it is off by default
ESX
vmkernel port

19. What does ESX4.x Provide instead of Capacity Planner?
You don't have to - the customization files are preinstalled on the vCenter Server
vmkernel port
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1
Mini-Capacity Planner known as Guided Consolodation

20. Which modes does a vNetwork Distributed Switch support?
On a harddrive or shipped from the factory in EPROM
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN
Mini-Capacity Planner known as Guided Consolodation
Promiscuous - Isolated Community

21. When can you use the Web Browser to manage ESX 4?
When you enable it - it is off by default
change the etc/nssswitch.conf
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1
The port for the service console

22. How do you prepare your vCenter 4 server for VM Customization?

23. What is the order of install and setup for vcenter?
Install DBA server - create a dba - establish an ODBC connection - install vcenter - install any plugins
hard disk configuration file
8 MB
10

24. what is a VM_name-flat.vmdk file?
contains all data that makes up the VM
10
install VMTools on an OS
The port for the service console

25. What are used to apply and monitor configurations to ESX?
The port for the service console
You don't have to - the customization files are preinstalled on the vCenter Server
Host Profiles
Promiscuous - Isolated Community

26. You want to design for Fastest throughput and have 2 physical Nics available?
Add 2 physical NICs to a virtual switch - then connect your VMs to a portgroup on that virtual switch
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
VMware capacity planner
When you enable it - it is off by default

27. How many NICs does a VM support?
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
10
xp 32bit+
you can't

28. What block size will for VMFS will allow you to create the maximum sized VMFS volume on a lun?
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
vmkernel port
Host Profiles
Install DBA server - create a dba - establish an ODBC connection - install vcenter - install any plugins

29. Which vCenter Server 4 driver is required to make a system ODBC connection?
On a harddrive or shipped from the factory in EPROM
SQL Native Client
256 on bootup - 128 on install
8 MB

30. what is a VM_name.vmdk file?
hard disk configuration file
Create a separate portgroup and attach a vm running the web service to it.
change the etc/nssswitch.conf
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust

31. in ESX - how many hosts per switch?
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN
10
64
SQL Native Client

32. In a fibre channel lun - what does vmhba1:c0:t2:l3:s1 represtent?
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1
255GB
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
Promiscuous - Isolated Community

33. What is Guided Consolitdation?
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
ESX Alternative to Capacity Planner - it is AKA Mini-Capacity Planner
Swap - root and /var/log
255GB

34. What is the Max RAM support for a VM in ESX?
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
255GB
10

35. What technology allows you to store a VM on a NFS share?
ESX
VMWare Server and Workstation both install as an application and run as a user mode application - but Server can run as a service
you can't
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1

36. What must you create to add a NFS datastore to ESX4 host?
Install DBA server - create a dba - establish an ODBC connection - install vcenter - install any plugins
vmkernel port
Host Profiles
Level 4 Statistics

37. Which level of logging in vCenter will collect all possible?
When you enable it - it is off by default
Level 4 Statistics
install VMTools on an OS
Create a separate portgroup and attach a vm running the web service to it.

38. Which ESX editions allow third party storage multipathing?
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN
256 on bootup - 128 on install
the vmkernel port
4.1 Enterprise and +