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VMware Interview Questions

1--What is platform service controller?

2--What are different deployment options for psc?

3--Can we install psc after vcenter installation?

4--Explain fault tolerance in detail.

5--Types of vlan tagging in vmware

6--What is FT logging?

7--What if user forget vcenter local administrator password ([email protected]) and that
vcenter is not domain joined?

8--What could be the issue if user is not able to connect to host through vsphere client but that host is
connected and available in vcenter?

9--How HA Works in details? Where HA data saved?

10--If Master Host goes down then then how HA will work further?

11--What is DRS and how it works?

12--What is FT?

13--Pre-requisites for FT?

14--How to Enable FT?

15--Which Technology is used in FT?

16--Can we access Secondary Machine in FT from Client side if Primary still running?

17--What is Admission Control Policy?

18--What is Snapshot and Procedure to Take Snapshot?

19--Which are the Two Options appear while taking snapshot?

20--How can we determine CPU of a VM is high in environment of 500 VM's?

21--How to find specific Snapshot in environment of 500 VM's?

22--Procedure to upgrade ESXi host?

23--What is Thin Disk, Thick Eager Zeroed and Lazy Zeroed?

24--How to Migrate from 5.5 Environment to 6.5?

25--What is RAID and it's Types?

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26--You are able to take RDP or putty session one of the vm but when you try to open vm console the
console displaying the blank screen what would be the possible reason.

27--vCenter don’t have internet connection and you want Patches and use update manager, how you
can use update manager without internet connection.

28--What are the steps to install patches via update manager?

29--When will the patches get downloaded?

30--What is the difference in Vsphere 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7?

31--What is linked mode?

32--What is esxtop?

33--What is VCHA?

34--What is PSOD?

35--What action will you take when you get psod?

36--What action will you take when a host fails?

37--What ports are required for p2v?

38--What is the difference between SRM and vsphere Replication?

39--What are the steps to recover a replicated virtual machine?

40--Name few services in esxi server.

41--What is the role of vpxa and hostd services?

42--What is vpxd service?

43--What is the location of log files in esxi server?

44--Tell me some recent issue which you have faced and how you done troubleshoot for the same?

45--There is Datastore cluster of 3 Datastores each with 20 GB Space available, and admin wants to
create 30GB Thick provisioned VM. Will he be able to create this VM on that Datastore cluster?

46--If the 2 ESXi host configured in different vlan ids in same network e.g. 1 host is configured on vlan id
2 & Other host configured on vlan id 20, then vMotion will happen or not?

47--How VM Cloning Process works in the background?

48--How to restart ESX Management Agent?

49--Installation steps of ESXi Server.

50--Storage SAN, NAS, iSCSI Differences?

51--What is iSCSI Software initiator port number?

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52--How to troubleshoot if we found the vm performance issue?

53--What is scratch partition?

54--Define your vmware environment?

55--VMware ESXi 4 and ESXi 5 differences?

56--How to check the state of VM using command line?

57--What is NIC Teaming?

58—Explain background process of vmotion?

59—Explain the HA & DRS background process?

60--What is vmware vsphere distributed switch?

61--How to assign a LUN to esxi server, how will you identify the LUN on esxi server?

62--Define ESX Memory Ballooning and Setting Reservations?

63--How will you troubleshoot if your HA is fail?

64—What are the prerequisites of HA and DRS?

65--Can we move vm between two data centers?

66--If vm is showing vmks error and is unable to boot then how will you troubleshoot?

67—What is difference between ESX & ESXi?

68-- If vCenter goes down, will HA work?

69— What is Traffic Shaping and NIC Teaming?

70--Show me vmware vshpere architecture?

71--What is EVC?

72--What is different between template & clone?

73--When you create vm that time how many file get created in background like (vmdk vmx)?

74--What is hardware version in VM of vSphere7?

75--Can we do the vMotion of VM having snapshot? If no then why?

76--What are the port groups present in vSphere networking?

77--What are the core services of vCenter?

78--Can we do vMotion between two datacenters? If possible how it will be?

79--What is VC agent? And what service it is corresponded to? What are the minimum req's for VC agent
installation?

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80--What are the files that make a Virtual Machine?

81--What are the devices that can be added while the virtual Machine is running?

82--What are the common issues with snapshots? What stops from taking a snapshot and
how to fix it?

83--What is Virtual Center?

84--What is a vNIC and vSwitch?

85--What is Storage v-Motion?

86--What is LUN (Logical Unique Number)?

87--What is Storage Area Network?

88--What is Network Area Storage?

89--What is SRM (Site Recovery Manager)?

90--What is VMware vSphere standard virtual switch?

91--What is hot plug in?

92--What is Host Profile?

93--What is a VMware tool?

94--What is vSphere?

95--What is virtualization?

96--What is a Hypervisor?

97--What is the VM hardware version currently in ESXi7?

98--What is VMware Workstation?

99--What are the file extensions available in vsphere?

100--What are the different types of virtualization?

101--What are VMware VMotion & Storage VMotion (SVMotion)?

102--What are: virtual processor, virtual RAM, virtual NIC, & virtual disk?

103--What is a snapshot?

104--What is a P2V conversion?

105--What is VDI?

106--What is ThinApp?

107--Why is centralized storage so important for enterprise virtualization products?

108--What is a VMware VCP & a VCDX?

109--What is the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF)?

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110--What are the requirement for Vmotion?

111—Which Ports are used in VCenter Server?

112--What's the major different between virtual network adapter E1000 and VMXNET3?

113--Can we import host profiles created on our master vCenter Server located in our main

Datacenter to the vCenter Servers running in remote sites or branch offices?

114--When migrating VMs with Storage VMotion, could we choose different datastore LUNs
if our single VM has multiple virtual disks?

115--Does vCenter Server Heartbeat works across LAN and WAN?

116--What's the maximum number of vCenter Servers we can configure in a linked mode?

117--What's the main functions and capabilities when deploying vCenter Server linked
mode?

118--Will vCenter Server Heartbeat works together with vCenter Linked Mode?

119--What is the benefit of using a Distributed vSwitch as compared to a Standard vSwitch?

120--Why am I unable to hot add CPU and memory to virtual machine?

121--What is the benefit of configuring thin disk provisioning as compared to thick disk

Provisioning for a virtual machine?

122--Will my virtual machines still have connection if the virtual center that stores my
Distributed vSwitch configuration goes down?

123--What is the maximum number of ESX Hosts we can connect to a single distributed
switch?

124--Can we create a cluster with ESX and ESXi Servers?

125--When we convert a VM from thin disk to thick disk, which state must the VM be in to
perform the request?

126--What is the difference between a thick virtual disk and eager zeroed thick virtual disk?

127--Does VMware have an online page where we can search for all the technical white
papers?

128--What is vCenter Agent?

129--What is the command used to restart SSH, NTP & Vmware Web access?

130--What are the types of Ports groups in ESXi7?

131--What is VMKernel?

132--What is the use of VMKernel Port?

133--What is the use of Virtual Machine Port Group?

134--What are the different types of Partitions in ESXi server?

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135--What are the security options available for ESXi vswitch?

136--What is Promiscuous Mode in VMware vSpeher?

137--What is Forged Transmits?

138--What are the types of VLAN tagging in Vsphere?

139--What is VST, EST & VGT?

140--What are the Traffic Shaping policies available in the vSwitch?

141--What are the Load balancing policies available in vSwitch?

142--What are the types for Network Failover Detection settings in vSwitch?

143--What is the command to check the ESXi vswitch details, port group and its IP address?

144--What is the command to get the information about vmkernel ports and its IP address?

145--What is the command to get the information about physical NICs installed on ESX
server?

146--What is command to add the new virtual switch named (vswitch3) to our ESXi server?

147--What is command to add the new port group named (mgmt) to vswitch (vswitch 3)?

148--How to add the vmkernal port (vmk2) to our newly created port group “mgmt” with
the ip addr 192.168.0.83?

149--How to change the ESXi host name and default gateway?

150--How to edit the ESXi host file?

151—Explain the difference between Virtual Standard switch and Distributed switch?

152—What is the maximum number of LUNs that can be attached to a host (ESXi 7.0)?

153—What is maximum number of vCPUs that can be assigned to a VM (ESXi 7.0)?

154--What happens to the VMs if a standalone host is taken to maintenance mode?

155--How can you edit a vm template?

156—What are the types of DRS?

157--vMotion is not working. What are the possible reasons?

158--How will you clone a VM in an ESXi without vCenter?

159--What is DAS? How is it connected to the server?

160--How is an iscsi device connected to a server?

161--How to upgrade ESXi 6.7 to ESXi 7.0?

162--Which networking features are recommended while using iSCSI traffic?

163—Which Ports are used by vCenter?

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164--Which is the command used in ESXi to manage and retrieve information from virtual
machines?

165--Which is the command used in ESXi to view live performance data?

166—Which Command line tool is used in ESXi to manage virtual disk files?

167—Which port number is used in vMotion?

168—What is Log file location of VMware host?

169--Can you map a single physical NIC to multiple virtual switches?

170-- Can you map a single virtual switch to multiple physical NICs?

171--In vSphere 5.5, VMKernel port-group can be used for:

172—What are the Major difference between ESXi 6.7 and ESXi 7.0?

173--What is Pluggable Storage Architecture in VMware?

174--Which is the partition type used in VMware ESXi scratch partition?

175—Explain iSCSI multipathing in vSphere 6.7/7.0?

176--What is NMP and its role in VMware?

177--What are the sub plugins in NMP?

178--How can I change the EVC mode of an existing cluster?

179--What are the two deployment models of PSC?

180--What is the name of ballooning driver in ESXi?

181--vMotion failed at 14%. What could be the possible reasons?

182--Software iSCSI adapters are not visible. What could be the reason?

183--A VM failed to start after moving from another VMware platform? What could be the
reason?

184--VM appears as inaccessible in vCenter. What could be the reason?

185--How will we shrink the size of a vmdk file?

186--How to remove iscsi targets from ESXi with 'Dead' or 'Error' status?

187--The operation to resize a VM disk failed. What are the possible reasons?

188--How to take backup of ESXi configuration?

189--ESXi host shown as disconnected in vCenter. What are the possible reasons?

190—What are the types of Hypervisor?

191—What is HCI?

192—What are the services available in Platform Service Controller (PSC)?

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193—What are types of deployment supported for vCenter?

194—What is the operating system used in Vcenter Server Appliance?

195—What is Single Sign-On (SSO)?

196—What is Virtual Volumes (VVols)?

197—What Is VMFS?

198—What is vmdk?

199—What types of Network Storage are supported in vSphere?

200—What are the disk types in vSphere?

201—Explain Memory Management Techniques in VMware?

202—What are the Network Adaptor Types available in VMware vSphere?

203—What is VCHA?

204—Which License editions are available in vSphere 7.0?

205—Which are the editions available in vCenter Server?

206—What is VMware NSX?

203—What is ESXi customized ISO?

207—What is DCUI?

208—What is lockdown mode in ESXi?

209—What is the maximum number of snapshots can be used in single chain?

210—Which databases are supported with vCenter Server Appliance 6.7?

211—Which services are available in VCSA with PSC?

212—What is vCenter Server Enhanced Linked Mode?

213—What is latest version of VMFS?

214—What is permanent device loss (PDL) in vSphere?

215—What is All Paths Down (APD) in vSphere?

216—What is RDM? And what are the RDM Compatibility Modes?

217—Which protocols are supported for VCSA backup?

218--If the VC is down than will distributed switch work?

219--How storage DRS works?

220--If we don't have VMware tool in VM, can we take snapshot?

221--What happened in the background if we commit the snapshot?

222--What is storage I/O control?

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223-- What is network I/O control?

224--We have taken snapshot and reverted the VM to snapshot. Now what will happen to
existing snapshot, will it be removed or it will exist?

225--What is difference between storage based replication and host based replication in
VMware SRM. Which one to use, when and why?

226--How to do p2v using Vmware converter and what are the ports requirement for P2V?

227--How the windows licensing works in the VMware environment?

228--After the Vmotion of a VM, how does the physical switch knows that the VM is
migrated to another esxi host and now switch must send packets to the new esxi host's
virtual switch on which VM is currently residing?

229--Explain Link aggregation protocol used in Distributed switch?

230--Prerequisites for SRM?

231--How to confirm vm is powered-off and vmfs has released all locks?

232--How to restart ESXi Management Agent?

233--Define your vmware environment?

234--How to check the state of VM using command line?

235--Any vm having snapshot can do vmotion or not? If no then why?

236-- How will you troubleshoot a host getting rebooted frequently?

237-- Requirements and steps for the installation of vcloud Director?

238-- Steps for integrating of vCloud director with AD?

239-- Can the VMs created by vCloud director be protected by SRM?

240-- Can we assign RDM to a VM created by vCloud director?

241-- What's New in vCenter Server 7?

242—Can you tell me something about vmware horizon view?

243— What happens to the files contained on shared storage once a Content Library is
deleted?

244—What is the use of port group?

245-- What will happen if the .nvram file is deleted accidently from a VM?

246-- What are the four typical ways in which storage will be additional to a vSphere?

247—What is new in vSphere 7.0?

248-- In vSphere 7.0 how many vCPUs can be used for a VM in FT?

249-- Which technology is used in VMware FT?

250-- Is it true, FT work if vCenter Server goes down?

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