vSphere Editions and Features Flashcards

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Standard Edition

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  • HA and FT (Fault Tolerance) for 2vCPUS
  • Data protection (VDP) / replication (Vsphere Replication) DR
  • WOLs/SPBM (Storage Policy Based Management) (Virtual Volumes) (Virtual aware storage) (Manage Storage based on virtual machine)
  • Content library
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HA

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High availability for tier 1 servers

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FT

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Fault tolerance for for failed physical cpus. vCPU will time out for a moment.

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4
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Data Protection or VDP

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Backup and recovery application

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5
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Vsphere Replication

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Software base replication. Used primarily for DR

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vVols

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Virtual Volumes. Must be supported by storage array. Virtual aware storage. Manage storage based on VM instead of LUN.

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SPBM

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Storage policy based management. Define policies for a VM. Configure underlying storage with capabilities or Vsphere can talk to the storage with the vsphere API. VASA.

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8
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Content Library

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A shared area for the vcenter server for ISO images and vapps.

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9
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Enterprise Addition

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All of Vsphere standard and:

VAAI
DRS/DPM
BDE

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10
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VAAI

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Vmware API Array Integration. Provides the offload of storage operations to your storage where it belongs. Cloning a VM could be offloaded to the storage. Could be instantaneous for large VMs.

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DRS

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Distributed Resource Scheduler. Load balancing.

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DPM

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Distributed power management. Related to DRS. Allows the Datacenter to save on electricity costs. Shuts down ESXI servers when demand is low.

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13
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BDE

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Big Data Extensions. Companies struggling with big data.

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14
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Enterprise Plus edition

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All of vSphere Enterprise and:

-FT for 4 vCPUS per protected VM
BDE, vDS, SDRS, NIOC, and SR-IOV

  • Host profiles / auto deploy
  • Flash read cache
  • Cross vCenter and long distance vMotion vGPU.
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15
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vDS

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vsphere distributed switch

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16
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SDRS

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Storage distributed resource scheduler. For storage. Ensures your VM receive the storage performance and capacity they require

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NIOC

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Network IO Control

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18
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Host Profiles / Auto deploy

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Bring up brand new esxi servers quickly and with the exact same config every time. Allows you to routinely audit esxi servers.

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19
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Flash read cache

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FRC. requires ssd on each esxi server where you have VMs you want to enable flash read cache. Can speed up storage IO throughput for read IO.

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20
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Cross vCenter

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Ability to migrate VM’s across vcenters.

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21
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Long Distance vMotion

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Allos for Vmotions to any vcenter in the environment.

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22
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vGPU

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Virtual graphic Processing units. High end graphic performance.

23
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All Editions

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sold per socket. Per physical CPU in servers. Price goes up based on features.

24
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vSphere Essentials Kit

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includes 6 cpu licenses for vSphere essentials. Special license for VMware Vcenter. Never be able to support hundreds of esxi hosts. Limited to 3 servers with up to 2 procs each.

25
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vSphere with operations management (vSOM) -std/ent

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standard or enterprise. Includes vmware vsphere plus vrealize operations. Perf and capacity monitoring and management.

26
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vRealize Operations Insight (vROI)

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add on to vsphere with operations management. Purchase vSOM and then vROI on top. Adds on to VMware log insight. Log management tool for the entire datacenter.

27
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vCenter

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is sold separately. Must have this for other features. In addition to vSphere. Add service and support through VMware.

28
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vSphere 6

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Sold per socket/ processor. No Limit on CPU, RAM, or number of VMs. Support and subscription (SnS) are required.

29
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vSAN

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Software defined storage dedicated to your VMs. Built in to the sphere hypervisor. Can be turned on with the right license code. Can use local storage on physical esxi servers. Requires both traditional spinning disks and flash disks. Or all flash disks. Requires minimum 3 servers. Unlikely you would need traditional SAN or NAS storage.

30
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Horizon View

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VDI solution. Use vSphere infrastructure to virtualize EUC.

31
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vRealize Suite

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includes VRO, and VRA, Vrealize business, Vrealize Log insight, Vrealize orchestrator, vRealize hyperic.

32
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Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

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DR of virtual infrastructure. Works with hardware or software based replication. Allows you to create DR plans which specifiy which VMs should be recovered to an offsite location.

33
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NSX

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network hypervisor. Software defined networking.

34
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vCloud Air

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Public cloud solution. Hybrid services. On demand servers. Manage virtual infrastructure through the cloud.

35
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vSphere Architecture

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made up of the ESXI hypervisor + advanced features, depending on your license level. Have to purchase the commercial edition of Vsphere. There is a free version, but it has limitations. It can’t be managed by vCenter.

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vSphere Architecture

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made up of the ESXI hypervisor + advanced features, depending on your license level. Have to purchase the commercial edition of vSphere. There is a free version, but it has limitations. It can’t be managed by vCenter.

37
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vSphere Infrastructure

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Installed on top of Compute, storage, and network. These are the building blocks.

38
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Infrastructure Services

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  • Hypervisor/Esxi.
  • Memory Overcommit
  • VMFS
  • DRS
  • Thin provisioning
  • Storage & Network I/O control
  • vDS
39
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Memory Overcommit

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Major differentiator. Allows you to provision more virtual memory than the esxi host actually has. Transparent page sharing, memory compression.

40
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VMFS

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vmware file system. Stores virtual machines. Offers best performance when it comes to accessing data.

41
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DRS

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Load balancing for CPU and Memory in the Virtual infrastructure. DRS works by ensuring the vms get the resources they need. If they don’t, the VMs are moved without any downtime.

42
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Thin Provisioning

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for storage. You may want to provision more storage than you may have available. Set up warnings if all VMs start to use more storage than anticipated.

43
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Storage and Network I/O Control

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Throttling I/O to ensure the critical apps get the I/O they deserve.

44
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Distributed Switch (vDS)

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Advanced of vsphere standard switch. Centralized management and config of all vswitches on the vnetwork.

45
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Application Services

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  • vMotion
  • Storage vMotion
  • High Availability
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Backup / Recovery
  • Replication
  • Hot Add
46
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vMotion

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Move a running VM to another host. No downtime.

47
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Storage vMotion

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Move a running Virtual disk file from one datastore to another. No Downtime.

48
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High Availability

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If a physical server fails then another physical server will take over. HA includes insight into the guest OS. HA knows if a windows VM has blue screened and crashed.

49
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Fault Tolerance

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If physical server crashes. Ultimate HA. The VM that is protected will stay up on another host with no down time.

50
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Backup / Recovery

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vsphere data protection

51
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Replication

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through vpshere replication

52
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Hot Add

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add ram and vcpus to running VMs.

53
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vCenter Setup

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Typically installed on a VM or can be installed on Physical windows server. Centralized point of management for the entire vsphere infrastructure.

54
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VMware vCenter Provides:

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  • ESXI Host Management
  • VM management
  • Templates, content library.
  • Centralized repository for performance data, statistics, and logs.
  • Tasks, events, and alarms.
  • Resource management
  • API connection for all other virtualization-aware applications