Chapter 17 - Managing VM Movement - Do I know this already?

Question 1

What PowerShell cmdlet allows you to set a VM for high availability?

a. Add-VMHA
b. Add-ClusterVMHA
c. Add-ClusterVirtualMachineRole
d. Add-ClusterVM

Answer 1

c. Add-ClusterVirtualMachineRole

Question 2

Which of the following is a useful feature of Quick Migration that Live Migration does not offer?

a. Moving a VM and the storage at the same time
b. Moving a VM with no pause at all
c. Moving a stopped VM
d. Moving a running VM

Answer 2

c. Moving a stopped VM

Question 3

What PowerShell cmdlet performs the export of a VM?

a. Export-VM
b. Send-VM
c. Place-VM
d. Set-VMNode

Answer 3

a. Export-VM

Question 4

What Drain on Shutdown status code means enabled?

a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3

Answer 4

b. 1

Question 5

What is Quick Migration?

Answer 5

An early form of the Live Migration that causes some delay in processing.

Question 6

What is Storage Migration?

Answer 6

The movement of a virtual machine’s files from one host to another.

Question 7

What is Network Health Protection?

Answer 7

A tool that allows dynamic monitoring of a VM to see if it has a healthy network connection.

Question 8

What is Drain on Shutdown?

Answer 8

A new Windows Server 2016 clustering feature that automatically live migrates all the roles on a node before shutdown

Question 9

What are the main differences between a live migration and a quick migration?

Answer 9

The Quick Migration has a delay, and the Quick Migration can move a stopped VM.

Question 10

Where in the network adapter properties do you find the Network Health Protection option?

Answer 10

Advanced Features > Protected Network

Question 11

How do you perform a Live Migration?

Answer 11

You use the Add- ClusterVirtualMachineRole cmdlet

Question 12

How do you perform a Quick Migration of a VM?

Answer 12

1. The cluster pauses the Virtual Machine role, suspending the I/O and CPU functions of the VM.
2. The cluster saves the source VM’s memory contents and system state to shared storage and places the VM into the Saved state.
3. The cluster copies the symbolic link specifying the location of the source VM’s files to the destination node and transfers ownership of the source VM’s files to the destination VM.
4. The cluster removes the symbolic link from the source VM.
5. The cluster resumes the role from the Saved state, copying the memory contents and the system state from shared storage to the destination VM, now running on the destination node

Question 13

How do you enable Drain on Shutdown?

Answer 13

It is enabled by default but to disable it you use the running the (Get- Cluster).DrainOnShutdown = 0 cmdlet