vCentre server

Question 1

The vCentre sever is a service that acts as a central administration point for _____ _____ and their vms connected to the network

Answer 1

esxi hosts

Question 2

What is vCentre single sign-on

Answer 2

provides a security domain defined in your vSphere environment. Authentication is performed by the vCenter Single Sign-On server. The vCenter Single Sign-On server can be configured to authenticate against multiple user repositories, also called identity sources, such as an Active Directory domain.

Question 3

What is a vCenter Database?

Answer 3

The database stores the inventory items, security roles, resource pools, performance data, and other critical information for vCenter Server.

Question 4

What are vSphere web client and client?

Answer 4

The vSphere Client is used to connect directly to ESXi hosts

The vSphere Web Client connects directly to vCenter Server

Question 5

What does the platform service controller do?

Answer 5

The Platform Services Controller includes a set of common infrastructure services: 
– VMware vCenter
™ Single Sign-On
– VMware License Server 
– Lookup Service
– Certificate Authority 
– Certificate Store 
– VMware Directory Services

Question 6

vCenter Server provides access to the ESXi host through a vCenter Server agent named _______?

Answer 6

vpxa

Question 7

The hostd process is aware of?

Answer 7

all virtual machines that are registered on the ESXi host, the storage volumes visible to the ESXi host, and the status of all virtual machines

Question 8

vpxa acts as an intermediary between the vpxd process, which runs on ______ ________, and the hostd process to relay the tasks to perform on the host.

Answer 8

vCenter Server