Chapter 1 Flashcards
A feature introduced in vSphere 7.0 that enables you to back up and
restore the vCenter Server Appliance instances.
vCenter Appliance
File-Based Backup
and Restore
A feature that places and starts VMs on appropriate ESXi hosts
and hot-migrates VMs using vMotion when there is contention for
compute resources.
Distributed Resource
Scheduler (DRS)
A feature that provides automated live failover protection for VMs
against host, hardware, network, and guest OS issues.
Fault Tolerance (FT)
A feature that optimizes power consumption in an ESXi cluster.
Distributed Power
Management (DPM)
A feature that minimizes VM downtime by proactively detecting
hardware failures and placing the host in Quarantine Mode or
Maintenance Mode.
Proactive HA
A centralized repository used to manage and distribute templates,
ISO files, scripts, vApps, and other files associated with VMs.
Content library
3 hosts
2CPU MAX
vSphere License
Basic vCenter features aka lifecycle manager, VMware Converter
vCenter Server Essentials
3 hosts
2CPU MAX
vSphere License
Basic vCenter features aka lifecycle manager, VMware Converter
as well as
vmotion, HA, replication
vCenter Essentials Plus
4 hosts
License sold separately
Basic features supported as well as
vmotion, HA, replication
vSphere Foundation
2000 Hosts
License sold separately
Basic vcenter features supported
vmotion, HA, replication
advanced features supported (VCHA Back up and Restor
vSphere Standard
Up to 10 Hosts or
100 Virtual Machines
Tiny Environment
Up to 100 Hosts or
1000 Virtual Machines
Small Environment
Up to 400 Hosts or
4000 Virtual Machines
Medium Environment
Up to 1000 Hosts or
10000 Virtual Machines
Large Environment
Up to 2000 Hosts or
35000 Virtual Machines
X-Large Environment
TCP 88
Required to be open to join Active Directory
TCP/UDP 514
vSphere Syslog Collector port for vCenter
Server and vSphere Syslog Service port for
vCenter Server Appliance
