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Certified Virtualization Expert Vce

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Answer 38 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does ESX4.x Provide instead of Capacity Planner?
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Mini-Capacity Planner known as Guided Consolodation
Create a separate portgroup and attach a vm running the web service to it.
Swap - root and /var/log

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

3. what is a VM_name-flat.vmdk file?
Install DBA server - create a dba - establish an ODBC connection - install vcenter - install any plugins
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1
4.1 Enterprise and +
contains all data that makes up the VM

4. What technology allows you to store a VM on a NFS share?
4.1 Enterprise and +
ESX
Inside the VMs guest OS
Add 2 physical NICs to a virtual switch - then connect your VMs to a portgroup on that virtual switch

5. Which services need access to the iSCSI SAN to run?
hard disk configuration file
the vmkernel port
ESX
SQL Native Client

6. What is Vswif?
install VMTools on an OS
The port for the service console
64
When you enable it - it is off by default

7. Which level of logging in vCenter will collect all possible?
Level 4 Statistics
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
64
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN

8. How many NICs does ESX support?
You don't have to - the customization files are preinstalled on the vCenter Server
Host Profiles
VMWare Server and Workstation both install as an application and run as a user mode application - but Server can run as a service
32

9. Which ESX editions allow third party storage multipathing?
Create a separate portgroup and attach a vm running the web service to it.
install VMTools on an OS
4.1 Enterprise and +
Mini-Capacity Planner known as Guided Consolodation

10. How do you change DNS behavior in ESX?
hard disk configuration file
Add 2 physical NICs to a virtual switch - then connect your VMs to a portgroup on that virtual switch
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
change the etc/nssswitch.conf

11. What block size will for VMFS will allow you to create the maximum sized VMFS volume on a lun?
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN
64

12. in ESX - how many hosts per switch?
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN
You don't have to - the customization files are preinstalled on the vCenter Server
64
VMWare Server and Workstation both install as an application and run as a user mode application - but Server can run as a service

13. Which modes does a vNetwork Distributed Switch support?
Create a separate portgroup and attach a vm running the web service to it.
install VMTools on an OS
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
Promiscuous - Isolated Community

14. When can you use the Web Browser to manage ESX 4?
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1
xp 32bit+
ESX
When you enable it - it is off by default

15. What can you install vcenter on?
the vmkernel port
change the etc/nssswitch.conf
xp 32bit+
Level 4 Statistics

16. How to provide space to a VMFS datastore without moving data somewhere else?
extend your vmware vmfs datastore to another empty LUN
ESX
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1
4.1 Enterprise and +

17. What is best practice to resize during an ESX installaiton?
Swap - root and /var/log
hard disk configuration file
64
you can't

18. what is a VM_name.vmdk file?
10
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
hard disk configuration file
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1

19. Which vCenter Server 4 driver is required to make a system ODBC connection?
VMWare Server and Workstation both install as an application and run as a user mode application - but Server can run as a service
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
hard disk configuration file
SQL Native Client

20. How do you create a 1.5 TB hard drive - what block size do you need?
10
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
SQL Native Client
8 MB

21. What is the order of install and setup for vcenter?
hadrare dapter id of 1 - storage channel is 0 - storage processor target id is 2 - lun is 2 and partition number is 1
255GB
install VMTools on an OS
Install DBA server - create a dba - establish an ODBC connection - install vcenter - install any plugins

22. In ESX - how do you set the IP addres for the virtual Nic?
the vmkernel port
When you enable it - it is off by default
10
Inside the VMs guest OS

23. You want to design for Fastest throughput and have 2 physical Nics available?
contains all data that makes up the VM
Add 2 physical NICs to a virtual switch - then connect your VMs to a portgroup on that virtual switch
The port for the service console
hard disk configuration file

24. 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
Promiscuous - Isolated Community
install VMTools on an OS
VMware capacity planner

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

26. What tool will determine necessary hardware to run your new infrastructure for your conversion?
VMware capacity planner
you can't
Install DBA server - create a dba - establish an ODBC connection - install vcenter - install any plugins
256 on bootup - 128 on install

27. What is the Max RAM support for a VM in ESX?
255GB
When you enable it - it is off by default
SQL Native Client
8MB - creates 1.5 TB

28. What is Guided Consolitdation?
you can't
ESX Alternative to Capacity Planner - it is AKA Mini-Capacity Planner
10
Add 2 physical NICs to a virtual switch - then connect your VMs to a portgroup on that virtual switch

29. Where can ESX 4.x be installed?
SQL Native Client
On a harddrive or shipped from the factory in EPROM
Host Profiles
hard disk configuration file

30. 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
change the etc/nssswitch.conf
Create a separate portgroup and attach a vm running the web service to it.
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
SQL Native Client

31. What are used to apply and monitor configurations to ESX?
Inside the VMs guest OS
Mini-Capacity Planner known as Guided Consolodation
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
Host Profiles

32. You can't automatically...
install VMTools on an OS
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
The port for the service console

33. What must you create to add a NFS datastore to ESX4 host?
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
vmkernel port
Inside the VMs guest OS
256 on bootup - 128 on install

34. What does vCenter Server linked mode require?
Promiscuous - Isolated Community
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
change the etc/nssswitch.conf

35. Contrast VMWare Server and workstation in terms of installation as and running
VMWare Server and Workstation both install as an application and run as a user mode application - but Server can run as a service
Network Time Synch - Full DNS resolution - all domains connected in 2 way trust
the vmkernel port
The port for the service console

36. What is the upgrade order of ESX?
VMWare Server and Workstation both install as an application and run as a user mode application - but Server can run as a service
change the etc/nssswitch.conf
8MB - creates 1.5 TB
vCenter then ESX then vmware tools

37. How many LUNs can a Fibre Channel san recognize during bootup and install?
256 on bootup - 128 on install
Create a separate portgroup and attach a vm running the web service to it.
64
8MB - creates 1.5 TB

38. How many NICs does a VM support?
hard disk configuration file
ESX Alternative to Capacity Planner - it is AKA Mini-Capacity Planner
Host Profiles
10