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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By: Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment. This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
8
Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

Questions

  1. vSphere HA will always restart the VM in case of failover.

a) True
b) False

  1. Two kinds of heartbeats are used in conjunction with vSphere HA. What are their exact names?

a) Network heartbeat
b) IP heartbeat
c) File heartbeat
d) Storage heartbeat
e) TCP/IP heartbeat

  1. A specific file, host-XX-hb, is created on the shared datastore once the vSphere HA is configured. Please describe the use of this file.
  2. An All-Path-Down (APD) situation is announced by SCSI sense code from the storage array.

a) True
b) False

  1. What three types of admission control can be configured (except disabling the option)?

a) Slot Policy
b) ESXi resource policy
c) Cluster resource percentage
d) Dedicated failover host
e) Datastore clusters

  1. Name at least three technologies or functions that you cannot use in conjunction with Fault Tolerance.
  2. You can use any VMkernel adapter for FT logging traffic...