Vmware & ESXI

Question 1

What is the latest VMware on version did you work?

Answer 1

ESXI 6.x (6.0,6.5,6.7)

Question 2

What you did with VMware means what kind of things you configured on VMware?

Answer 2

*Provision and manage virtual machines.
*Allocate resources on demand basis.
*Create a root user, network setup

Question 3

If I want my vm run faster what you will upgrade?

Answer 3

Allocate more resources such increase cpu/ram on the server.

Question 4

Did you ever take snap shot of running VM or live machine? Would you recommend that?

Answer 4

*yes
*no would not recommend. Power off systems data is correctly and fully written so data can’t be missed.

Question 5

What is benchmark for taking a snapshot or how long I can keep it?

Answer 5

Benchmark is 72 hours, we can keep it for 72 hours. It will go over time causing the snapshot storage to run out of space

Question 6

If we snapshot for longer period, what would be consequences we have to face?

Answer 6

*snapshots can take space if they are left there.
*should not use a single snapshot for more than 72 hours.

Question 7

What TCP/IP setting is required for a workstation to work?

Answer 7

IPaddress
Netmask
Gateway
DNS

Question 8

Do you understand the difference between cloning and snapshot?

Answer 8

Cloning is the exact copy of your machine and having another machine.
snapshot is a restore point of the machine (makes a copy of the existing vm state).

Question 9

How do you determine whether your system is virtual or physical?

Answer 9

Lscpu look af the hypervisor vendor.
*hostnamectl

*Dmidecode