VCA vSphere Virtual Machine Management

Question 1

What is vSphere vMotion used for?

Accepted Answer

Migrating a running VM from one ESXi host to another with zero downtime

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Creating a clone of a virtual machine on the same host

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Moving a VM's storage from one datastore to another

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Powering on a VM on a remote ESXi host

Question 2

What is Storage vMotion in vSphere?

Accepted Answer

Moving a VM's disk files from one datastore to another while the VM is running

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Migrating a running VM between two ESXi hosts

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Replicating VM storage to a remote site

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Expanding a VM's virtual disk online

Question 3

Which vSphere feature allows you to deploy multiple VMs quickly from a master template?

Accepted Answer

VM template

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VM snapshot

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VM clone

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VM linked clone

Question 4

What is the difference between a full clone and a linked clone in vSphere?

Accepted Answer

Full clones are independent copies; linked clones share the parent snapshot's disk

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Full clones share the parent VM's disk; linked clones are independent

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Full clones require vCenter; linked clones work on standalone ESXi

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Full clones are encrypted; linked clones are not

Question 5

What vSphere feature monitors VM resource usage and generates performance charts?

Accepted Answer

vSphere Performance Charts in vCenter

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vSphere DRS

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VMware vRealize Operations

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vSphere vMotion

Question 6

What happens to a VM's data when it is powered off and then deleted in vSphere?

Accepted Answer

All associated files including .vmdk and .vmx are removed from the datastore

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Data is moved to a trash folder and retained for 30 days

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Only the configuration file is deleted; disk files are retained

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The VM is suspended and moved to an archive datastore