Question: Have you installed vCenter 6.5 in HA mode? (new feature) How do you troubleshoot if there is any issue with vCenter availability? What happens if the failover process is not executed in HA? Can you access the vCenter server with regular IP address? Answer: It’s long time that I posted scenario based question. You…
DetailsQuestion: We are looking for VMware Administrator with VSAN experience. Have you ever configured VSAN cluster? What kind of challenges you ran into while VSAN deployment? What tools you used to troubleshoot those issues? Help me to understand your VSAN understanding and implementation experience. Answer: Most of the VMware Administrators answer this question…
DetailsQuestion: Can you explain the options that you see when you format new Data store in vSphere 6.5 via Web client? Answer: vSphere 6.5 released some time ago and Interview panel members now started asking for questions related to 6.5 like differences and what’s new in 6.5. Today let me help you to understand the…
DetailsQuestion: How do you troubleshoot unable/failed to power-on Virtual Machine Scenario? Hint: Interviewer wants to understand your skills for common issues in VMware with Virtual Machines Answer: Let me ask you this question – what happens if production SQL DB Virtual Machine failed to power-on which is hosting critical data bases for HR-Payroll department 🙂…
DetailsQuestion: How do you troubleshoot Virtual Machine Backup failures in your Infrastructure? Hint: Interviewer wants to understand your skills with various backup solutions at vCenter Answer: We have many vendors to provide backup solutions like Symantec NetBackup, Veeam, IBM Tivoli, VMware Data Protector … etc Vendors started releasing Backup solutions exclusively for Hyper-visors like VMware vSphere,…
DetailsQuestion: How do you perform ESXi patching in your Infrastructure? Hint: Interviewer wants to understand your ITIL Skills like Change management along with Technical answer Answer: Based on your Infrastructure size and Internet Connectivity status your answer will vary. Let us cover generic information followed by each case. ITIL Process:…
DetailsQuestion: What are the steps that you will take when vCenter service failed to start in your Infrastructure? It is running with 5.1 or 5.5 version. Hint: Interviewer wants to know your troubleshooting skills and confirm weather you worked on this issue at-least once Answer: Validate if each troubleshooting step…
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What are the Product & Features of VMware vSphere 5.5? The VMware vSphere product suite is a comprehensive collection of products and features that together provide a full array of enterprise virtualization functionality. The vSphere product suite includes the following products and features: ◆ VMware ESXi ◆ VMware vCenter Server ◆ vSphere Update Manager ◆…
DetailsQuestion: There is Virtual Machine which is not pingable/rdp and in vCenter console it was hung. All options are grayed out at VM options. How to recover this Virtual machine? Hint: Interviewer wants to know your ESXi command line skills to troubleshoot the scenario Answer:…
DetailsQuestion: Can you describe about your VMware Infrastructure that you are supporting? What are the daily operations? Hint: Interviewer wants to know weather you have live experience or not. Based on your answer he will conclude couple of items. Answer: I am part of…
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