Which of the following features is a benefit of shared storage within a VMware environment?

A. Allows storage to be deployed from a single vendor

B. Provides the ability to backup data more efficiently

C. Provides the ability to view the disk I/O more efficiently

D. Allows for the deployment of DRS and HA clusters

You are in an interview for a position as a VMware administrator. You have been asked for a definition for virtual switch. Which of the following would be a good definition?

A. A virtual switch can act like a router handling traffic between VMs on separate subnets

B. A virtual switch allows up to 500 VMs to share the same 1 GbE adapter through Network I/O Control (NIOC)

C. A virtual switch allows VMs to communicate with each other and with physical devices.

D. A virtual switch allows VMware to segment a physical switch to isolate VM traffic

Several web server virtual machines in your environment are experiencing poor performance. Upon further investigation you learn that one very active database virtual machine is consuming most of your storage bandwidth. You would like to restrict the storage performance of the database VM to increase the performance of the web server VMs. Which of the following features will help you do this?

A. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

B. Storage I/O Control

C. vMotion

D. Storage vMotion

You are the System Administrator for your organization and you have received an SNMP alert that states that one of your ESXi servers has suffered a fan failure and will automatically shut down in 2 minutes. This particular host is currently hosting a virtual machine that is running an enterprise application that cannot be down for any length of time. Which vSphere technology could help in this situation?

A. Fault Tolerance (FT)

B. vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)

C. Storage vMotion

D. vSphere Data Protection

You have been asked by your supervisor to define some virtualization terms for her. She has asked about the difference between a bare-metal hypervisor and a host-based hypervisor. What can you tell her?

A. The bare-metal hypervisor is installed directly on the physical hardware, just like any other operating system

B. The host-based hypervisor is used to virtualize server operating systems and server-based applications only.

C. The bare-metal hypervisor can only be used with 32-bit hardware

D. The host-based hypervisor is used when you want to virtualize UNIX and Linux-based applications.