Virtualization

Virtual Machines

100

virtual machines increase these capabilities ____

Availability, management, scalability, optimization.

200

_____ is a point-in-time recovery point for a VM.

VM snapshot

300

also know as a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) this isolates VM resources from each other.

Hypervisor

400

______ is a technology pertaining to optimization uses SSDs on an ESXI host as their cache to increase performance and run faster.

vFlash

500

_____ is the central point to manage the IT environment, while _____ is an interface that allows remote connection to the first term.

Virtual Center (VC), vShere Client

More VM stuff

100

This is an isolated piece of software within a computer system used to run suspicious code and other things.

Sandbox

200

_______ has no OS between the software and the hardware, while ______ Shares resources with the virtualization software using an OS.

type 1 Hypervisor, Type 2

300

_______ enables a mirror to be created of a VM. Changes made to the orignal are also made to the mirror. 

Fault tolerance (FT)

400

______ is virtualization layer the provides resources to a VM.

ESXI server

500

____ is used to connect a server and management laptop and its done in port _____

Console cable, port 47

Terms

100

what is the difference between VM template and an Image?

VM template duplicates preexisting VMs, Images is used to duplicate physical servers.

200

____ moves a VM or portions of it to different resources, while _____ migrates VMs to migrate without powering down

Migration, Vmotion

300

5 types virtualization are _____

Hardware, software, storage, network, desktop

400

______ are logical groupings of devices in the same broadcast domain.

VLANs (virtual VLANs)

500

_____ is a cluster file system that allows VM creation, storage, and managment. 

Virtual Machine File System

Acronyms

100

DRS and what it does

Distributed Resource Scheduling - Shares resources among VMs

200

BCCS

Battle Command Common Services

300

VM HA stands for_____ and means _____

Virtual machine High Availability, allows VMs are restarted on different physical systems in the event of a server failure. 

400

DPM is used to ______

Distributed Power management, shuts down ESXI hosts when the VM workloads are light saving resources. 

500

VSMP stands for ______ and enables _______

VMware Virtual Symmetric Multi Processing, enables a single VM to use multiple physical processors.

Storage

100

What is Raid

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (Inexpensive disks) 

200

Which level of Raid writes the data to 1 drive and a mirrored drive.

Raid 1

300

This Raid level also know as a Hybrid Configuration uses both ____ and ____ providing faster speeds and more security. 

Striping and Mirroring

400

Allows VMs to save drive space by taking up only the space it uses. It can grow as needed up to the size defined by the Admin.

Thin Provisioning 

500

Technology that load balances VMs across datastores.

Storage DRS (SDRS)