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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. The OSI model consists of five layers:

a) True
b) False

  1. What is the purpose of using VLANs?
  2. Using a lower MTU value, you can increase the network's performance.

a) True
b) False

  1. Name at least four features that are available in a vSphere distributed switch and are not part of vSphere standard switch.
  2. Name four key components of vSphere networking.
  1. What are the three security policies we can configure?

a) Copy mode
b) Promiscuous mode
c) MAC address changes
d) IP address changes
e) Forged transmits
f) Ethernet security

  1. You can override the NIC teaming policy on the individual port group:

a) True
b) False

  1. Under the failover order option, to which physical NICs can we assign the different configuration?

a) Active adapters
b) Failback adapters
c) Standby adapters
d) Dedicated adapters
e) Unused adapters

  1. VLAN ID is defined on the vSwitch.

a) True
b) False...