Intro To VMware Flashcards

1
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VMware was founded in what year

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1998

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2
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VMware has engineered away to what?

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To exponentially increase the capacity of servers through virtualization which is the foundation principle of the cloud

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3
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Without virtualization technology there would be know what

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Cloud

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4
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What was released in 2001 through 2003?

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VMware releases the elastic sky X ESX server 1.5 it’s first hypervisor and introduces vmotion which allows users to move a workload from one server to another all while keeping the application running

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5
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What happens in 2003

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VMware goes global

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6
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What happen in 2004

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EMC acquired VMware and first VM world

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What happens in 2007

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VMware‘s initial public offering IPO

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What happens in 2012

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VMware acquires Nicola this is a key addition to the software defined data center strategy of VMware

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9
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When did VMware acquire air watch

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2013 for $1.5 billion

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10
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What does NSX stand for

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Network virtualization and security

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11
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When was NSX introduced

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2013

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12
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What does Vsan stand for

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Virtualization storage area network

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13
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What happens in 2015

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Dell acquires EMC corporation for $67 billion which includes a stake in VMware

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14
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What happens in 2016

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VMware and AWS announce the launch of VMware cloud on AWS

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15
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What happen in 2018

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Celebrated 20 years in business

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16
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Digital business consists of these outcomes

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Create new value, transform engagement, protect Brand and customer trust

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17
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Digital businesses require what

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A digital foundation

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18
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What is a digital business made up of

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People, processes, modern apps, data. All while being adaptive resilient and secure

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19
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What is a software defined digital foundation

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Common infrastructure, Common operations, and intrinsic security

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20
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VMware helps build a digital foundation for customer business needs by focusing on what four strategic IT priorities

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Modernize data centers, integrate public clouds, transform network and security and empower digital workspace

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21
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What are the IT initiatives for modern data Centers and integrate public clouds

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Software defined private cloud, hybrid cloud, agility by automation and next GEN applications

22
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What is a software defined private cloud

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A software defined private cloud
helps customers design a modern infrastructure that extends the power in efficiency of compute virtualization across the data center to storage and networking, with common management across the stack, for better performance and reduce costs.

23
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What is hybrid cloud

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Hybrid cloud builds a cloud strategy on common platform that ensures operational consistency and is ready for any future business need or IT use case.

24
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What is agility by automation

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Agility by automation helps customers automate IT processes for the configuration and provisioning of complete application stacks, including network and security services, to enable them to speed the development and delivery of applications for faster time to market.

25
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What is next GEN applications

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Next GEN application helps customers prepare their infrastructure for developing and deploying new cloud native applications that often leverage container technologies and micro services based architectures and change frequently and release cycles are measured in minutes or hours not days or weeks or months

26
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What is secure app infrastructure

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Secure app infrastructure is the evolution of the infrastructure and proliferation of distributed applications and services requires a new approach to how security is designing deployed to be effective, security must be distributed by default aligned applications were integration and automation need to be inherent part of the security fabric

27
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What is embrace cloud networking imple

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Embrace cloud networking is a new agile innovative approach to solve the hyper distribution of the applications and data as customers move from the data center out to the edge

28
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What is unify the branch/edge mean

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Unify the branch/edge helps customers achieve visibility control, assure application performance, and integrate security from data center to branch to the cloud. Customers can leverage VMware SD-Wan to improve real time app performance over standard Internet connections simplify policy management with cloud-based configurations provide optimize and secure software as a service or infrastructure as a service access and support zero touch deployment to bring up branches in days not months

29
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What are the IT initiatives for transforming networking in security

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Secure app infrastructure, embrace cloud networking, unified branch/edge

30
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What are the IT initiatives to empower the digital workspace

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Secure access management, unify and point management and simplified windows delivery

31
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What is secure access management

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Secure access management refuse the friction of access of the employees can get their work done in real time from any device or location without compromising security

32
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What is unified endpoint management

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Unified endpoint management leverages a single platform to manage all application devices regardless of ownership models

33
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What is simplified windows delivery

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Simplified windows delivery, delivers free windows applications and desktops to any location to any device while keeping applications and data secure in the data center or cloud

34
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What is VMware‘s vision

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Any device, any application, and any cloud

35
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What does API stand for

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Application programming interface

36
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What does HCX stand for

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Hybrid cloud extension

37
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What does IPC stand for

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Integrated public clouds

38
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What does MDC stand for

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Modernize data centers

39
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What does SDPC stand for

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Software defined private cloud

40
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How is the IT landscape changing in the data centers

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The surge of new demands, budget constraints, and the accelerated pace of technology

41
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Digital transformation is driving organizational transformation in what three business objective areas

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Exploring value in new areas of business, unlocking value and current core business, and building digital capabilities into the foundational systems and data infrastructure

42
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What are the technology trends driving transformation

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Public cloud, security, containers and devops

43
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What are some of the business challenges customers are facing today

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A growing skill gap in IT, acquiring and retaining top talent, operational and compliance risk, investment protection and workload portability

44
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What are some of the IT challenges customers face today

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Limited availability of time for innovation, reprioritization of IT budgets, lack of agility and pressure to support latest technology

45
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What is a virtual machine

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A virtual machines are the

use of software to simulate the existence of hardware

create a virtual computer system that can run more than one virtual system in multiple operating systems and applications on a single server to reduce cost through server consolidation

increase workload availability and performance and minimize or eliminate downtime

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What is a virtual network

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Reproduce the physical network and software, embedded in the hypervisor layer and abstracted from the underlying physical hardware

enable IT to reduce provisioning time from days to seconds and improve operational efficiency

enable a secure hybrid cloud architecture with policies attached to each workload to insure the meet security criteria

47
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What is virtual storage

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Virtual storage allows you to put a gather server attach flash devices and or hardest to provide a highly resilient share data store suitable for a variety of workloads to improve storage utilization, easily scale without disruption, and drastically lower total cost of ownership

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What is hyper converged infrastructure

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Embrace a hyper converged data center strategy that includes virtual machines virtual networks and virtual storage

HCI strategy extensive virtualization across the entire infrastructure compute storage and networking

49
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What does automation and management mean

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Automation and management allows you to expand the business agility through affective IT automation and management to eliminate time-consuming manual processes

This enables more consistent delivery and management of IT resources

50
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What does next GEN applications mean

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Next GEN applications allows you to build an agile, flexible, enterprise a grade platform that supports traditional and cloud native of applications, ensures the ability to build next GEN applications.

51
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What does extending to the public cloud mean

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Customers benefit from the ability to deliver dynamic capacity, consolidate or migrate on premise infrastructure, or developing test new applications

This flexibility helps organizations gain the freedom to choose the best platform

52
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What is VMware‘s vision for hybrid cloud

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Make the cloud simple, simplify developer consumption and provide consistent and unified operations