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Essendon wrote: » You are likely aware of it already Tom, the SRA detects replicated LUN's and they show up in the Datastore Groups area in SRM for you - it doesnt actually replicate the LUN's, that's done by your arrays' replication mechanism.
Essendon wrote: » The amount of time the business can be without their services without incurring significant losses is 6 hours (MTD?). It's been estimated it would take 4 hours for them to recover lost data, recover from backlog and verify operational services (WRT). As for the values, here: - RPO = 8 hours - RTO = 6 hours - WRT = 4 hours - MTD = 10 hours (RTO + WRT)
A technical solution should adhere to business requirements, and not the other way around.
jibbajabba wrote: » Wonder if that is always possible though. Business requirements surely include budget as well, and that is where technology sometimes dictates business needs.
tomtom1 wrote: » Question 25: Still following the same company we used to, the new admin, Richard, is wondering why Dorothy didn't bring more structure into the organizations vCenter environment. After all, wouldn't it be kinda nice to have the virtual machines grouped by their function, instead of just being a VM in a cluster? This is what he came up with: OK, nice, in the DR site we have the VM's grouped by their function, which mainly is production. However, the dr-vma virtual machine wasn't really a part of the production, it's more like a management tool, so Richard decided to keep it out of the resource pool for now. 1) What is the critical misunderstanding that Richard has for grouping virtual machines to create a better overview?Richard has misunderstood what Resource Pools are used for - They aren't used as Folders 2) In doing so, what would be the effect in case of CPU contention?Depending on if Richard has chaged any shares, the Vms will fight for CPU resources. Which can cause lethargic VMs 3) What would be a better way to achieve overview?Under VMs and templates view you can create Folders
tomtom1 wrote: » Correct, but, for question number 2 I'd like a bit more detailed answers (i.e what will happen in times of contentions). The second screenshot posted should give you the information necessary to derive a conclusion.
kj0 wrote: » Depending on if Richard has chaged any shares, the Vms will fight for CPU resources. Which can cause lethargic VMs
kj0 wrote: » Do you meant that the DR-VMA will take precedence over the Resource pool? I was focusing on the resource pool.
kj0 wrote: » You don't need DRS for the resource Pool, I've just created one without it. Wouldn't DRS not work for the resource pool as it is connected to a host? It wouldn't move all the VMs under it and because those VMs are tied to that RP.
Essendon wrote: » Bringing down the difficulty and providing a larger number of questions so folks can have some more practice. Question 27 a). Richard is looking at a datastore and observes that the there's a huge discrepancy between provisioned size and actual size of a .vmdk file. The provisioned size says 600GB while the actual size is 70GB. Why?Why, well there are two possible reasons. If he has the VMDK set up as Thick Provisioned Lazy Zero then he is seeing the size currently Zero'd out (That has data) and the total space acquired. Second, it is thin provision and the 530Gb extra has not been reclaimed, This can be reclaimed by logging on to the datastore via ESXi (SSH) and running vmfstools --punchzero b). This time Richard needs to change the SMTP server that vCenter will use to send out notifications. Where will he change this setting?Richard will find these settings by clicking on the vCenter link > Manage Tab > General link > Click "edit" in the top corner > Select Mail c). Richard has been observing that when he needs to provision a new datastore, he's able to see LUN's that are reference to by RDM's that he's already using. How can he ensure that he and his other fellow admins not see them when provisioning a new datastore?Richard can use LUN masking to hide the LUNsd). Richard has discovered that VUM is a nifty little tool that he can use to update his hosts. So he goes off and installs VUM and sure enough the VUM plugin shows up as available to download. Upon downloading the plugin and setting up VUM, he's been told that the VUM server will not have a direct connection to the Internet. How can he download his updates?Richard can download his updates as a zip file and install them via the CLI. e). Continuing question d). - he's got this remote site that doesnt have any Internet connection and a very flaky network connection to the main site. How can send his patches/updates to the remote site's ESXi servers? f). Richard's manager has asked him to find out if there are any idle connections to his vCenter server. Where can he find this info?Richard can find idle sessions under vCenter Server link > Manage Tab > Sessions g). Is there a way Richard can send a broadcast message to all logged on vCenter admins that the server will be going down for maintenance in the evening?You can send a Message of the Day to all Logged on users h). Richard is fed up of seeing the Getting Started tab. Can he get rid of this tab for every object in his clusters.He can get rid of this tab by clicking on the Getting Started Tab and clicking the cross in the top right hand corner of the main window. i). His manager has asked him to generate a report that shows the assigned IP addresses of all VM's running in a cluster. Is there a way he can generate a nice report?If Richard clicks on Cluster > Related Objects > Virtual Machines > Objects (bottom right hand corner) > select IP address > Generate CSV he can create a CSV to print out with the report, or view onscreen in vCenter Web Client. j). One of Richard's junior admins has created a new VM called VM1 and assigned it an available IP address in the same subnet as other VM's. But the admin reports that VM1 is unable to contact the domain controllers when she tries to join it to the domain. Why could this be happening?In the guest OS, the jnr needs to assign the correct DNS server that points to the DC k). Richard's FC SAN administrator has provisioned a new LUN so Richard can SvMotion off some vmdk's to a new datastore. Richard goes in and scans a host for New Storage Devices. The scan comes up as completed. Next, he goes into scan the second host in the cluster which also completes successfully. But when he goes in and tried to create a new datastore, the new disk doesnt show up in the available devices list. Why might this be happening?The SAN administrator has not assigned the WWN of the ESXi host to the allow list. The ESXi host is blocked from seeing any LUNs/Devices. l). Richard needs to check the temperature of the system board of his ESXi host. So he goes into the Hardware Status tab but sees nothing there. Why?If Richard can not see information in the hardware tab either the CIM service isn't started, or the port 427/5989 is blocked.m). Richard's been looking at the HA Advanced Runtime Info of his cluster and he discovers the following info: Why is there a difference between the total host and total good hosts in cluster? Why are the number of available slots = 0 while the number of failover slots = 35. Can Richard power on a new VM? n). Your admin Richard has discovered that your cluster's been doing too many vMotion operations during the day. Why? What can he do to decrease the number of vMotion's?With multiple vMotions occurring during the day, this can put contention on several components of the environment. Under the Advanced Settings for the vCenter, you can set a maximum cost for the Hosts, Network or Storage. o). What will the following setting do?Datastore Hearbeat requires a minimum 2 Datastores, this setting of "true" will prevent a warning appearing to let you know that you do not meat the required 2 nodes. p). Check the following screenshot. When would you set the MAC address setting to Manual?Having the opportunity to change the MAC address can come in handy if there is ever a mac address conflict, or if the current Mac address is blocked (If Mac Address Changes is not rejected) q). Richard needs to bump up the RAM on a VM. He right click on it and clicks on Edit Settings and discovers the following: Why can he not increase the RAM and what should he do it be able to do this on-the-fly in the future?Presuming the VM is running in this screenshot, he needs to enable Memory Hot Plug when the Vm is next turned off. r). Richard sees the following when he goes to the Summary tab of a VM. Why cant he see the IP address, even though the VM is powered on?This occurs when isolation.tools.setinfo.disable is set to true in the VM configuration Paramaters.
kj0 wrote: » d). Richard has discovered that VUM is a nifty little tool that he can use to update his hosts. So he goes off and installs VUM and sure enough the VUM plugin shows up as available to download. Upon downloading the plugin and setting up VUM, he's been told that the VUM server will not have a direct connection to the Internet. How can he download his updates?Richard can download his updates as a zip file and install them via the CLI.
kj0 wrote: » n). Your admin Richard has discovered that your cluster's been doing too many vMotion operations during the day. Why? What can he do to decrease the number of vMotion's?With multiple vMotions occurring during the day, this can put contention on several components of the environment. Under the Advanced Settings for the vCenter, you can set a maximum cost for the Hosts, Network or Storage.
kj0 wrote: » r). Richard sees the following when he goes to the Summary tab of a VM. Why cant he see the IP address, even though the VM is powered on?This occurs when isolation.tools.setinfo.disable is set to true in the VM configuration Paramaters.
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