VCP 2

esxcli system module parameters

esxcli storage core device

esxcli system module set

esxcli storage core adapter

Only one vSphere Replication appliance can be deployed per vCenter Server instance.

VMware Tools in the vSphere Replication appliance can be upgraded.

A single vSphere Replication appliance can manage a maximum of 4000 replications.

vSphere Replication is available only with the vSphere Essentials Plus license.

Direct connect topology is supported.

Each host must have its own boot LUN.

ESXi hosts do not require local storage.

Multipathing to a boot LUN on an active-passive array is supported.

Hosts can share one common boot LUN.

isolation.device.edit.disable = “FALSE”

isolation.device.edit.disable = “TRUE”

isolation.device.connectable.disable = “FALSE”

isolation.device.connectable.disable = “TRUE”

OneAppServer must be updated before it can be deployed.

LibraryOne is a subscribed library and OneAppServer is not downloaded yet.

LibraryOne is published and optimized for syncing over HTTP.

OneAppServer was imported from a local file on the system.

Bandwidth reservation per traffic type

Network resource pools

CoS tagging

Bandwidth guarantee to virtual machines

Unmount the datastore and then enable SIOC on the vCenter Server system.

Configure the datastore to be managed by a single vCenter Server system.

Configure Storage DRS and then enable SIOC on the vCenter Server system.

Enable Raw Device Mapping (RDM) on the ESXi hosts.

Space load balancing among datastore within the datastore cluster.

Initial placement for virtual disks based on space and I/O workload.

I/O load balancing among datastores within the datastore cluster.

Queue Depth alerting on disks within the datastore cluster.

Data de-duplication within the datastore cluster.

using vSphere Auto Deploy

using a TFTP server

using Update Manager

using an ESXCLI command

installing from CIFS share

Microsoft SQL Server Express 2012R2

Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2012R2

PostgreSQL

Oracle DB 11g

Reset a virtual machine.

Power on a virtual machine.

Move a host into a cluster.

Configure CD media.

Migrate a virtual machine with Storage vMotion.

1024

512

2048

256

VirtualMachine.Config.Settings privileges

an encrypted USB drive

Virtual Hardware version 13 or later

Virtual Hardware version 12 or later

EFI firmware

esxcli network ip connection list

esxcli network ip neighbor list

esxcli network nic get

esxcli network nic list

Multicast must be enabled on the physical switches and routers that handle vSAN traffic.

vSAN requires IPv6 only.

All hosts must have a dedicated 40GbE NIC.

The vSAN network supported IPv4 or IPv6.

vSAN requires IPv4 only.

NFS

RDM

vSAN

VMFS

JBOD

vSphere standard switch port

ERSPAN

NSX Virtual Wire

VLAN

Network > Move Network

Virtual Machine > Inventory > Move

Resource > Migrate powered on virtual machine

Datastore > Allocate Space

/var/log/vmware/vpxd/

/var/log/messages

/etc/vmware-vpx/

/var/log/vmware/vsan-health/

The host in question has no out-of-band management capability (i.e. iLO/iDRAC).

The SSH service is disabled on the host.

Strict lockdown mode is enabled on the host.

Normal lockdown mode is enabled and the administrator is a member of the Exception User list.

The DCUI service is disabled on the host.

Advanced Configuration Settings

General System Settings

Security

Networking

vCenter Server failure

VXLAN failure

Disk array failure

Network failure

ESXi host failure

Configure the Distributed Switch to MTU 9100.

Disconnect and reconnect the physical network cable.

Configure the physical switch to MTU 1600.

Disable the Distributed Switch MTU.

on Disk Format 3.0

Hybrid vSAN

All Flash vSAN

vSAN Advanced License

Stretched Cluster Configurations

None. Backup Verification job is not a feature of vSphere Data Protection

It is a manual task
– Power it on
– Verify the guest OS
– Check started applications

It is an automatic process
– Restore a virtual machine
– Power it on
– Verify that the guest OS is booted by communicating with the Backup Verification agent

It is an automatic process
– Restore a virtual machine
– Power it on
– Verify that the guest OC is booted by detecting the VMware ToolsTM “heartbeats”

VMkernel of the iSCSI traffic must be load balanced using Route based on IP Hash algorithm.

VMkernel of the iSCSI traffic must be load balanced using Route based on Source Virtual Port ID algorithm.

VMkernel of the iSCSI traffic must be load balanced using Route based on Source MAC Hash algorithm.

VMkernel of the iSCSI traffic must be bound to only one active network adapter.

100 milliseconds

150 milliseconds

15 milliseconds

10 milliseconds

The upgrade has changed the vmhba name.

vSphere 6.5 automates iSCSI configurations.

vSphere 6.5 no longer supports software iSCSI.

The upgrade has deleted the vmhba.

if a host failover is unsuccessful

if a virtual machine was removed from vCenter Server’s inventory

if a virtual machine was deployed from template, and the template has been deleted

if a virtual machine is unregistered directly on the host

A. ESXi shell

B. vSphere Client

C. ESXi host client

D. vSphere Web Client

A. vmreconfig.pl

C. ks.cfg

B. hostinfo.pl

D. boot.cfg

A. anti-affinity rules

B. virtual storage controller

C. guest OS family

D. I/O latency

D. Power on and power off VM2.

C. Power on and power off VM1.

B. Power off VM1.

A. Suspend VM2.

D. Define a dedicated gateway for the iSCSI vmkernel.

C. Create a custom IP Stack.

B. Configure the right subnet.

A. Configure Static Routes on each ESXi Server.

D. There are VMkernel network adapters connected to the switch

C. There are LACP LAGs configured on the switch.

B. There are blocked ports on the switch.

A. There are virtual machine network adapters connected to the switch.