Alarms

Question 1

What are the default utilization alarms?

Answer 1

VM CPU Usage
VM Machine Memory Usage
Datastore Usage on Disk
Datastore Cluster is out of Space
License Capacity Monitoring
License user threshold monitoring
Thin-provisioned volume capacity threshold exceeded
Host memory usage
Host CPU usage
Host service console swap rates
Host SSD capacity exceeds the licensed limit for the VSAN
Host virtual flash resource usage

Question 2

What are the Default Connectivity Alarms?

Answer 2

Pre-4.1 host connected to SIOC-enabled datastore
Cannot find vSphere HA master agent
Network uplink redundancy degraded
Network uplink redundancy lost
Network connectivity lost
Cannot connect to storage
Host connection and power state
Host connection failure

Question 3

Which types of triggers can only be used individually?

Answer 3

VM Snapshot size and VM total size on disk

Question 4

What are the common actions for alarm-type monitors?

Answer 4

Send a notification email
Send a notification trap
Run a command

Question 5

What are the actions for the host alarm-type monitors?

Answer 5

Enter maintenance mode
Exit maintenance mode
Enter Standby
Exit Standby
Reboot Host
Shutdown Host

Question 6

What are the actions for the virtual machine alarm type monitors?

Answer 6

Power on VM
Power off VM
Suspend VM
Reset VM
Migrate VM
Reboot guest on VM
Shutdown guest on VM