In Case of Failure
Terms I can live with
Who's Who
Wrapped up in a Package
100
It allows you to backup entire virtual machines and restore virtual machines.
What is disaster recovery or back up and restore
100
What was once ESX 3.5 and has been discontuned. This is the name of the replacement product.
What is vSphere
100
This is the name of the systems engineer for vmware at tech data
Who is Cheryl Jameson
100
This is the entry level VMware bundle that does not offer backup and restore
What is Essentials
200
It allows one identical virtual machine to run in lockstep with another. If a physical machine completely fails, this feature will take over and allow zero downtime.
What is fault tolerance
200
There are two completely free downloadable products from VMware that will allow you to build virtual machines. name one.
What is VMware Server or ESXi
200
for VMware part number lookup, quotes, pricing and non-technical question, you would call this team
What is the VMware Licensing Team
200
This bundle offers High Availability and Disaster Recovery but is not upgadeable in the sense that you cannot add licenses to it.
What is Essentials Plus
300
It allows a virtual machine to do a live migration to another physical machine
What is VMotion
300
This feature allows you to optimize your storage and allows you to over allocate storage capacity for increased storage utilization, enhanced application uptime, and simplified storage capacity management.
What is ThinProvisioning
300
you have a customer on the line that would like someone to explain how to become authorized, how to conduct vmware business, who is the best group you would send the call to.
What is the PSC
300
Out of all the bundles, this bundle is the lowest cost that offers Fault Tolerance
What is Advanced
400
It allows a virtual machine to be turned off and migrated to another physical machine then turned back on. This feature would not count as zero downtime
What is high availability (HA)
400
What is the term of applications that are stored at the VMware marketplace. They are written by other companies which classifies them as third party and they can be applications such as firewalls, proxy servers
What is an Appliance
400
The customer bought the software and is having technical issues. They are best served by this group to help them resolve their issues.
What is VMware Tech Support
400
This is the only bundle that you can add the Cisco Nexus 1000v product to.
What is Enterprise Plus