1. What is Virtualization? 2. What are the inherent benefits of virtualization? 3. What is a Hypervisor? 4. What is ESX Server? 5. What is Hyper-V?

6. What are a host, guest, and virtual machine? 7. What products are available for Server Virtualization? 8. What products are available for desktop virtualization? 9. What is the difference between ESX Server and VMware Server? 10. What is the difference between Hyper-V and Virtual Server? 11. What is the difference between emulation, native virtualization, and paravirtualization? 12. What are the different types of virtualization? 13. Why do I care that VMware ESX uses the VMFS? 14. How do I backup my virtual guest operating systems? 15. What are VMware VMotion & Storage VMotion (SVMotion)? 16. What is VMware HA? 17. What is VMware VCB? 18. What is Virtual Center? 19. What is System Center Virtual Machine Manager? 20. What is a partition? 21. What are: virtual processor, virtual RAM, virtual NIC, & virtual disk? 22. Why do I need to care about the hardware requirements of VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V? 23. What is a snapshot? 24. What is Quick Migration? 25. Why wont my virtualization product boot from my OS CD to load my new guest OS? 26. What do I need to know about licensing and Virtualization? 27. What is a P2V conversion? 28. What is VDI? 29. What is SoftGrid? 30. What are the best free virtualization options? 31. What is VM Sprawl? 32. How many virtual machines can you run on one host? 33. What is ThinApp? 34. Why is centralized storage so important for enterprise virtualization products? 35. What are the best online resources for Virtualization knowledge? 36. What are the best training options for learning about Virtualization? 37. What is a VMware VCP & a VCDX? 38. What is a virtual datastore? 39. Why should I try virtualization on my desktop PC? 40. What is the Open Virtual Machine Format? 41. Can I virtualize all my servers or should some servers or applications not be virtualized? 42. What are the drawbacks to virtualization? 43. How do I manage my virtualized servers? 44. How much do virtualization products cost? 45. Will Microsoft overtake VMware as the market virtualization leader? 46. How much money can my company save with Server consolidation using virtualization? 47. What is the difference between a fixed and a dynamic virtual hard disk? 48. Where can I download pre-built virtual machines? 49. What are virtual machine additions and integration components? 50. What are some of the VMware ESX Server add-ons that I should consider?

1. Explain the physical topology of Virtual Infrastructure 3 Data Centre ? 2. How do you configure Clusters,Hosts,Resource Pools in VI3 ? 3. What are resource pools & whats the advantage of implementing them ? 4. Explain why Vmware ESX Server is preferred over Virtual Server or Workstation for enterprise implementation ? 5. In what different scenarios or methods can you manage a VI3 ? 6. Explain the difference between access through Virtual Infrastructure Client (vi client), Web access, Service Console access(ssh) ? 7. Explain advantages or features of Vmware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) ? 8. What are the types of datastores supported in ESX3.0 ? 9. How can you configure these different types of datastores on ESX2.5 ? 10.What is Vmware Consolidate Backup (VCB) ? Explain your work exposure in this area ? 11.How do you configure Vmware Virtual Centre Management Server for HA & DRS ? What are the conditions to be satisfied for this setup ? 12.Explain your work related to below terms : VM Provisioning: Alarms & Even Management: Task Scheduler: Hardware Compatibility List: 13.What SAN or NAS boxes have you configured VMware with ? How did you do that ? 14.What kind of applications or setups you have on you Virtual Machines ? 15.Have you ever faced ESX server crashing and Virtual Centre Server crash? How do you know the cause of these crashes in these cases ? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1> What are the major differences between ESX 3.5 and Vsphere? 2> What is the procedure to upgrade from ESX 3.5 to Vsphere? 3> Will HA and DRS work if Vcenter goes down? 5> What is Vmotion? 6> What are the prerequisites to enable Vmotion? 7> Where do configure Vmotion-- Cluster Level, Host level....? 6> What are port groups? 7> How many default ports are created on installation of ESX 3.5? 6> What is default port number for iSCSI? 8> What are templates? 9> What are differences between convert to template and clone to a template options, for a VM? 10> What could be the maximum host failure in a cluster? 11> what is the difference between Vsphere( VI Client) client and Vcenter ? 12> What are the requirements to install Vcenter? 13> What is minimum hardware configurations to install Vcenter? 14> When you deploy 10 Virtual Machines from a template, and power up all the Virtual Machines simultaneously, will there be a IP conflict? If yes how to resolve this | What if DHCP server is disabled | Are there anything we can do to prevent an ip conflict on deploying Virtual machines? 15> What is Service Console? Why do you need Service Console? 16> Does service console work on Linux OS? 17> What is VMkernel? Is Vmkernel based on Linux ? 18> What are different interfaces available to access an ESX host? 19> When you access an ESX Host through VCenter or VI client, does it contact service console or Vmkernel? 20> Are the changes we make through Vcenter or VI client, on service console or VMkernel? 21> What is difference between accessing an Host VI client and Vcenter?

22> What do you mean be resource pools? explain 23> What is NIC teaming, explain in brief the options it provides? 24> What are different types of Converstions? 25> What do you mean by consolidate backup? 26> What are the disaster recovery options available in Vsphere or ESX 3.5? 27> what is Thin Provisioning? 29> What are the maximum number of extents that can added to a LUN? 30> What is DPM, DRS, VMotion and HA ? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. Explain about your production environment? How many clusters, ESX, Data Centers, H/w etc ? How does VMotion works? Whats the port number used for it? Prerequisites for VMotion How does HA works? Port number? How many host failure allowed and why? What are active host / primary host in HA? Explain it? Prerequisites for HA ? How do DRS works? Which technology used? What are the priority counts to migrate the VMs? How does snap shots works? What are the files will be created while creating a VM and after powering on the VM? If the VMDK header file corrupt what will happen? How do you troubleshoot? Prerequisites VC, Update manager? Have you ever patched the ESX host? What are the steps involved in that? Have you ever installed an ESX host? What are the pre and post conversion steps involved in that? What would be the portions listed? What would be the max size of it? I turned on Maintenance mode in an ESX host, all the VMs has been migrated to another host, but only one VM failed to migrate? What are the possible reasons? How will you turn start / stop a VM through command prompt? I have upgraded a VM from 4 to 8 GB RAM; its getting failed at 90% of powering on? How do you troubleshoot? Storage team provided the new LUN ID to you? How will you configure the LUN in VC? What would be the block size (say for 500 GB volume size)? I want to add a new VLAN to the production network? What are the steps involved in that? And how do you enable it? Explain about VCB? What it the minimum priority (*) to consolidate a machine? How VDR works? Whats the difference between Top and ESXTOP command? How will you check the network bandwidth utilization in an ESXS host through command prompt? How will you generate a report for list of ESX, VMs, RAM and CPU used in your Vsphere environment? What the difference between connecting the ESX host through VC and Vsphere? What are the services involved in that? What are the port numberss used? How does FT works? Prerequisites? Port used? Can I VMotion between 2 different data centers? Why? Can I deploy a VM by template in different data centers ? I want to increase the system partition size (windows 2003 server- Guest OS) of a VM? How will you do it without any interruption to the end user? Which port number used while 2 ESX transfer the data in between? Unable to connect to a VC through Vsphere client? What could be the reason? How do you troubleshoot? Have you ever upgraded the ESX 3.5 to 4.0? How did you do it? What are the Vsphere 4.0, VC 4.0, ESX 4.0, VM 7.0 special features? What is AAM? Where is it used? How do you start or stop through command prompt? Have you ever called VMWare support? Etc Explain about Vsphere Licensing? License server? How will you change the service console IP? Whats the difference between ESX and ESXi? Whats the difference between ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0?

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difference between ESX3.X and ESX 4 2. diffrence between ESX and ESXi 3. how to access the ESX and ESXi? 4. ESX server ports?, ssh, VUM, vmotion, SCSI,HA 5. what is HA? 6. how HA works?

7. where to get the HA Status? 8. how to promote or demote the Server in HA config? 9. where is HA config file? and log file? 10. what is DRS? 11. how DRS works? 12. vmware License types? 13. how to add license? 14. how to config cluster? 15. how to network load balancing? 16. vmware path selection? 17. swap size? 18. what is balloning? 19. thin provisioning? 20.installing ESX server in blade server? 21. installing ESX- boot from SAN 22.what is SRM? 23. how to config SRM? 24. what is FT? 25. what is difference between HA and FT? 26. difference between HA and DRS? 27. difference between FT and SRM ? 28. cluster maximum? 29. how to link the vcenters? 30. ESX log files ? 32. vmware services? how to restart the services? 33. how to troubleshoot vmotion? 34. virtual switch port types? 35. VLAN? 36.how to change the root password? 37. not able to access the server via putty? 38. vmware update manager process? 39. how P2v Works? 40. vmware converter port number? 41. vmware converter requirements? 42. vmware converter steps? 43. snapshot? 44. ESX file types? 45. vmware snapshot file extension and initial size? 46. how to config vmsafe? 47. difference between VI and vpshere client? 48. vcenter services? 49. how to increase the c: drive size? 50. increase the datastore size? 51. vmfs version? 52.cloning? 53. how to remove the host from the cluster? 54. how to setup HA for a VM? 55. how to troubleshoot PSOD? 56. what is WWN? and WWPN? 57. what is chap authentication/ 58. how to discover LUN ? 59. how to setup maintance mode? and procedure?

60. what is resource pool? 61. vmware user and admin rights? 62. esx and ESXi architecture ? 63. what is service console? 64. what is vmkernel ? 65. how to upgrade the ESX server? 66. difference between patches and upgrades? 67. what is EVC ? 68. how to export syslog to vmware customer care? 69. what backup mechanism ? 70.vmware backup types?( agents) 71. what is template? 72. difference between template and clone? 73. difference between hot clone and cold clone? 75. how to config VCB( vmware consolidated backup)- port?- how it works? 76. how to install new VM step by step ?