VCA vSphere vMotion & Live Migration

Question 1

What is the primary purpose of VMware vMotion?

Accepted Answer

To live-migrate a running virtual machine between hosts with no downtime

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To migrate a powered-off virtual machine between hosts

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To replicate virtual machine data to a remote site

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To clone a virtual machine to another datastore

Question 2

Which shared resource is required between source and destination hosts for a vMotion migration to succeed?

Accepted Answer

Shared storage accessible by both hosts

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Shared CPU vendor (Intel or AMD)

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Shared RAM modules

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Shared local disk partitions

Question 3

What is the minimum recommended network bandwidth for a vMotion VMkernel adapter?

Accepted Answer

1 Gbps

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100 Mbps

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256 Mbps

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10 Mbps

Question 4

What does Storage vMotion allow an administrator to do?

Accepted Answer

Move a running VM's disk files to a different datastore without downtime

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Migrate a running VM's compute state to a different host

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Copy snapshots to a backup datastore

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Convert VMDK format from thick to thin provisioning only when the VM is powered off

Question 5

Which VMkernel port must be enabled on an ESXi host to support vMotion traffic?

Accepted Answer

vMotion VMkernel port

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Management VMkernel port

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vSAN VMkernel port

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Fault Tolerance logging VMkernel port

Question 6

What happens to a virtual machine's active network connections during a vMotion migration?

Accepted Answer

Connections are maintained transparently with no interruption

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All connections are dropped and re-established after migration

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Connections are paused for up to 30 seconds

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Only UDP connections are preserved; TCP connections are dropped

Question 7

Which of the following is a prerequisite CPU requirement for vMotion between two ESXi hosts?

Accepted Answer

Both hosts must use CPUs from the same vendor family (compatible instruction sets)

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Both hosts must have identical CPU clock speeds

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Both hosts must have the same number of CPU sockets

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Both hosts must have the same amount of physical RAM