virtualization

What is hosted virtualization

What products use it

What is full virtualization

What is binary translation

What is direct execution

What products use it

What are its benefits/disadvantages

What is Paravirtualization

What are Hypercalls

What is direct execution

What products use it

What are its benefits/disadvantages

What is Hardware Assisted Virtualization

What products use it

Module 2: Vmware Workstation

What is used for

What files make up a virtual machine

what is in the .vmx and .vmdk files

What do the Vmware tools do

How are MAC and IP address assigned to virtual machines

What are clones

What are snapshots,

suspensions

folders

What do each of the virtual networking components do

Vmnet

Bridge

Virtual adapters – guest and host

NAT

DHCP server

What is a vAPP

Module 3: ESXi Server

What is a Type 1 or Type 2 hypervisor

Where would you look for the system logs on ESXi

How do you connect to an ESXi server to manage virtual machines and resources

What is an OVF

OVA

Module 4: ESXi Server

How does ESXi manage and use memory

Memory used by the hypervisor, Vm actual memory, dynamic memory

Limit

overcommitment

shares

reservation

Ballooning, TPS, Shadow tables

How does ESXi manage CPU virtualization

Limit, reservation, shares

affinity

How does ESXi ensure reservations (Admission Control)

What is a resource pool

What factors affect ESXi CPU performance

Module 5: Storage and Networks

What is a Vmnic in ESXi

What is a Vmkernel in ESXi

What are Vswitchs, in ESXi

port groups

distributed switchs

What are physical volumes/partitions, volume groups, logical volumes and luns, and why do we use them

What is an ESXi datastore

What do the different types of virtual disk provisioning do (thin, thick)

What kind of storage can ESXi connect to?

How does ESXi connect to the different types of storage

How does the VMFS file system differ from other file systems

What is OpenFiler

Module 6: Vsphere

What are the components of a Vsphere datacenter

What is the Vsphere software, where is it installed and what does it do

What is Vmotion

Storage Vmotion

HA,

DRS

DPM

What is a Vsphere cluster

What are the requirements and configuration of vmotion, HA, DRS, DPM and Clustering

Quiz1

which type of virtualization uses hypercalls

which type of virtualization requires the guest operating system to be modified

what is the benefit of allocating all of the disk space immediately when you create a new card disk on a virtual machine

in a vmware .vmx file, what do the following lines mean
scsi0: 0.present = TRUE
scsi0: 0.filename = windows 7 vmdk

vmware workstaton keeps the contents of a virtual machines hard drive in a file that ends with

vmware workstations make up the UUID from the two things

the software construct that connects the virtual network adapter in your vmware workstation virtual machine to the physical ethernet adapter in your host computer is called a

which of the following is no true of the vmware workstation cloning process

when creating a virtual machine on ESX what does thin provisioned means

what does transparating page sharing do in ESX

what must you do to a vm so that you can have a drag and drop file transfer between a windows host and a windows vm in vmware workstation

what is an ova

the vmkernel manages all machine memory and uses dedicated vmkernel memory, when runing a virtual machine you need memory for two things what are they?

whats a virtual appliance

what is hardware assist virtualization and what does it do

describe how bare metal or hypervisor type 1 based virtualization differs from hosted virtualizations and what its benefits are