Chapter 2

Question 1

Stateless

Answer 1

In this mode you deploy ESXi using auto Deploy, but you are not actually installing ESXI. Instead of installing ESXi on a local disk or SAN boot lun, you are building an environment where ESXI is directly loaded into memory on a host as it boots.

Question 2

Stateless caching

Answer 2

In this mode, you deploy ESXi using Auto Deploy just as stateless, but the image is cached on the servers local disk or SAN boot LUN. In this mode, ESXI is still running in memory, but its loaded from the local disk instead of auto deploy server on the network.

Question 3

Stateful Install

Answer 3

In this mode, is similar to stateless caching, except the servers boot order is reversed: local disk first and network second.

Question 4

Software depot

Answer 4

Could be a directory structure of files and folders on a HTTP server.