VCP Virtual Machine Management & Lifecycle 3

Question 1

What is vMotion used for in a vSphere environment?

Accepted Answer

Live migration of a running virtual machine from one ESXi host to another with no downtime

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Migrating a VM's storage files from one datastore to another while the VM runs

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Replicating VM data asynchronously to a secondary vCenter site

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Converting a physical machine to a virtual machine on an ESXi host

Question 2

What does Storage vMotion accomplish in vSphere?

Accepted Answer

It migrates a VM's virtual disk files from one datastore to another while the VM remains powered on

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It migrates a VM's CPU and memory state to a new ESXi host while the VM is running

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It synchronizes VM snapshots between a production and disaster recovery site

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It moves VMs between vCenter Server instances in different SSO domains

Question 3

Which vSphere cluster feature automatically balances virtual machine workloads across ESXi hosts based on resource utilization?

Accepted Answer

vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

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vSphere High Availability (HA)

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vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)

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vSphere Replication

Question 4

What is the primary function of vSphere High Availability (HA)?

Accepted Answer

To automatically restart VMs on surviving ESXi hosts when a host failure is detected

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To prevent any VM downtime by maintaining a live shadow copy on a secondary host

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To continuously balance VM workloads across all hosts in a cluster

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To replicate VM data to an off-site disaster recovery location

Question 5

How does vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) differ from vSphere High Availability (HA)?

Accepted Answer

FT maintains a live secondary VM shadow that takes over instantly with zero downtime, while HA restarts VMs after failure with brief interruption

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HA provides zero-downtime failover while FT only restarts VMs after a failure with brief downtime

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FT and HA provide identical protection but FT is limited to storage failures only

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HA protects networking while FT protects compute resources in the cluster

Question 6

Traditional vMotion (without Enhanced vMotion) requires which condition to be met between the source and destination ESXi hosts?

Accepted Answer

Both hosts must have access to shared storage containing the VM's disk files

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The hosts must be in the same vSphere cluster with DRS enabled

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The destination host must have a newer CPU generation than the source host

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Both hosts must be running the same ESXi version and patch level

Question 7

What is the recommended procedure before decommissioning an ESXi host that has running virtual machines?

Accepted Answer

Place the host in Maintenance Mode, which migrates VMs to other cluster hosts before allowing decommission

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Power off all VMs on the host immediately to free resources

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Disconnect the host from vCenter Server and then power it off

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Delete all VMs from the host inventory before removing it from the datacenter