Definitions Flashcards
HA
High Availability
FT
Fault Tolerance
VVOLS
Virtual Volumes
vDS
vSphere Distributed Switch
SDRS
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler
SIOC
Storage IO Control
NIOC
Network IO Control
vSOM
vSphere with Operations Management
Horizon View
Virtual Desktop (VDI)
vRealize Suite
vRealize Operations and other data center and cloud management tools
SRM
Site Recovery Manager
Disaster Recovery of your virtual infrastructure.
Works with software and hardware base replication
NSX
Network Hypervisor (Software Defined Networking)
How many nodes can you have per cluster?
64 nodes (ESX Hosts)
How many VM’s can you have per cluster?
8000 VM’s
What type of Hypervisor is ESXi?
Type 1 Hypervisor AKA Bare Metal Hypervisor
vCSA
vCenter Server Virtual Appliance
SNS
Service and Support
VMFS
VMware File System
vMotion
Allows you to move a running VM from one physical server to another with no downtime.
Storage vMotion
Allows you to movies virtual disk file from one data store to another with no downtime.
High Availability
If one physical server fails another will take over. It knows when a VM has crashed and will restart that one virtual machine.
Fault Tolerance
If a physical server crashes the virtual machine protected with FT will continue with no downtime.
Hot Add
Hot Add virtual memory and Hot Plug of vCPU’s to a running virtual machine.
