VMware 2V0-620 Questions Answers

How many Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) can be configured on a vSphere 6.x Distributed Switch?

A. 64
B. 96
C. 128
D. 256

Answer: A


An administrator is configuring the Failover Order option on a vSphere Distributed Switch.
Which two options should be used with IP-hash load balancing? (Choose two.)

A. Active Uplinks
B. Standby Uplinks
C. Unused Uplinks
D. Override Failover Order

Answer: AC

VMware 2V0-620 Questions Answers

What is the default load balancing policy for a newly created VMkernel port on a vSphere Distributed Switch?

A. Route based on originating virtual port ID
B. Route based on IP Hash
C. Route based on source mac address
D. Route based on physical NIC load

Answer: A


How are ports scaled on vSphere Standard Switches (vSS)?

A. Ports on a vSS can be dynamically scaled up and down.
B. Ports on a vSS can only be statically scaled up or down.
C. Ports on a vSS can only be dynamically scaled down.
D. Ports on a vSS can only be dynamically scaled up.

Answer: A

VMware 2V0-620 Question Answer

An administrator has recently installed a new ESXi 6.x Host, and during the configuration notices sporadic network problems. To check whether the issue occurred sometime during the configuration, the administrator would like to reset the system. How can this be accomplished in the shortest amount of time?

A. Run the ESXi installer again and reinstall the host.
B. Select the Reset System Configuration option from the vSphere Client when connected directly to the host.
C. From the Direct Console User Interface, select Reset System Configuration.
D. Use a host profile to reset the configuration to a default state.

Answer: C
                                                                             2V0-620 Question Dumps

Your manager has given you a bash script that retrieves data for ESXi 6.x host configurations. This data needs to be collected right after the installation of a host and must be run directly on the host. Which two actions can be used to run this script on an ESXi host? (Choose two.)

A. Connect to the host with Ruby vSphere Console and run the script from there.
B. Enable SSH access from the Direct Console User Interface.
C. Enable the ESXi Shell from the Direct Console User Interface.
D. Run the script directly from the vSphere Web Client.

Answer: BC

Understanding The VMware REST API Interface

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for accessing web services originally developed by Microsoft. It is based exclusively on XML and was developed because the existing messaging services that Microsoft used as DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) and COBRA (Common Object Request Intermediary Architecture) did not work as well on the Internet. After developing SOAP, Microsoft transferred it to the IEFT, which standardized it, generating a series of other web service standards such as WS-Federation, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-Security, etc., which are defined using WSDL. (Web services description language). REST is basically a lightweight alternative to SOAP that uses HTTP 1.1 methods such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE to make requests instead of XML, which uses SOAP. There are many web services based on REST that can generate data in simple formats such as CSV, JSON and even RSS. This makes REST much easier to use, for example, when JavaScript is used to develop a dynamic website or web application. VMware vSphere 6.5 introduces a number of new REST-based APIs in addition to the existing SOAP APIs on the platform. This may indicate that VMware considers REST as the future over SOAP. To help us understand the VMware REST API and how to use it, I asked Luc Dekens to share his experience with us. Luc is a vExpert and MVP and is interested in automating everything, and more specifically through PowerShell and PowerCLI. He is a co-author of the PowerCLI reference and a regular conference speaker. You can read Luc's blog here, or follow him on Twitter as @ LucD22.

The REST API in practice

In recent years, more and more providers are announcing that they are providing a RESTful interface for their products. On the risk of starting a flame war in the introductory section of this article, I tend to disagree with most of these vendors.

No, it is not providing a RESTful interface for your product; you are following some REST rules in your new API. But hey, what you are providing definitely makes my life as a consumer of your product much simpler and easier.

What is API REST?

So, why the statement in bold in the previous section? As in most cases, there is a difference between theory and practice, and more specifically between a RESTful interface and the basic REST rules. While the RESTful theory, as Roy T. Fielding originally described, in chapter 5 of his doctoral dissertation "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-Based Software Architectures" and more specifically in his blog post, "REST APIs must be based on hypertext, "Highlights the importance of the ability to discover the actions that a client can perform on an object, most implementations of REST seem to deviate from this principle.

As a practical example, take a virtual machine, with the GET action we can request information about that virtual machine, but it will be the client who needs to interpret the PowerState returned from the Virtual Machine, "on" or "off", to determine if it can POST a "off" or "on" action.

In a REST API that offers a RESTful interface, it must comply with the HATEOAS restrictions (Hypermedia as the application state engine). More specifically, the object returned by the GET verb must contain the "links" to the actions that are available in the object in its current state.

Why use REST API?

Does the above mean that we should not use REST API that is not "pure", also known as RESTful? Of course, no. The REST API offers more than just the possibility of discovering actions for the consumer. And on the provider side (the provider), it offers the possibility to simplify its API. In addition, since most REST API implementations predominantly use HTTP (S) as a protocol, it also makes a REST-based architecture more manageable for network equipment. And finally, our preferred automation language, PowerShell, makes consuming REST API through HTTP quite easy with the Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest cmdlets.

VMware and REST API

There may be several reasons, and that is my personal interpretation, VMware will choose the REST API to replace its SOAP API. One of them would definitely be that it allows VMware to switch to Swagger to define its API in a much simpler way than what used to be the case with WADL (Web Application Design Language) for its SOAP API.

As an example, the Explorer API that is available from VMware vCenter 6.5 is a direct result of this change to Swagger. This API Explorer available in vCenter allows one to explore and "test" the available REST API, without code:

Call the REST API

We already mentioned that PowerShell has integrated cmdlets to work with the REST API, but there are some complexities that one needs to understand to make a valid call to a REST API:

In the VMware REST API that is available in vCenter 6.5, there is an API that allows one to retrieve (Get) all the available commands (/com/vmware/vapi/metadata/cli/command), and then through a second API to fetch (Post) more details on the parameters that are available (rest/com/vmware/vapi/metadata/cli/command?~action=get).

A simple script to use these two API could look like this.

$vCenterName = ‘vcsa.local.lab’
$auth = @{
‘vmware-api-session-id’ = ‘8d377b7ee718b9fdead33d8f3230019c’
}
$get_command = "https://$($vCenterName)/rest/com/vmware/vapi/metadata/cli/command"
$get_Command_detail = "https://$($vCenterName)/rest/com/vmware/vapi/metadata/cli/command?~action=get"
# Get all command identifiers
$result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $get_command -Headers $auth
$sRest = @{
Method = ‘Post’
Uri = $get_Command_detail
Body = ‘‘
Headers = $auth
ContentType = ‘application/json’
}
# Get more information about each command
$report = @()
foreach($command in $result.value){
$sRest.Body = @{‘identity’ = $command} | ConvertTo-Json
$detail = Invoke-RestMethod @sRest
$report += $detail.value.options |
Select-Object @{N=‘Path’;E={$command.path}},
@{N=‘Operation’;E={$command.name}},
@{N=‘Description’;E={$detail.value.description}},
@{N=‘Field’;E={$_.field_name}},
@{N=‘Type’;E={$_.type}},
@{N=‘Field Descriptoin’;E={$_.description}}
}
$report | Export-Csv -Path C:\Temp\rest-commands.csv -UseCulture

No matter the $ auth header for now, it is the way to refer to a session that we opened earlier. We'll come back to that later.

There are two calls Invoke-RestMethod in this fragment. The first uses the API to retrieve all commands, the second uses the API to get more details for each command. Note that in the second call to Invoke-RestMethod, the fragment uses "splatting" to pass the parameters to the cmdlet. This is my personal preference, since I think it makes the code more readable and organized.

Since we are using the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet, we will have to convert the objects that we pass in the Body to the correct format. In this case, we convert to JSON. The resulting CSV file contains information about all the commands (330 at the time of writing this) and the parameters available for each command:

Note that this contains the same information that we also find in the API Explorer for this specific call:

Invoke-RestMethod vs. Invoke-WebRequest

In the previous fragment, we use the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet to make the call to the REST API. Could we have done it through the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet?

Of course, both cmdlets can be used to execute REST API calls, but there are some differences that you should keep in mind. I prefer to classify Invoke-WebRequest as "raw", while Invoke-RestMethod is "interpreted". A sample should make it clear. The following are two calls to the same REST API:

$vCenterName = ‘vcsa.local.lab’
$auth = @{
‘vmware-api-session-id’ = ‘10e8e9965cd56bdd5478951fbe52c33f’
}
$uri = "https://$($vCenterName)/rest/com/vmware/cis/session?~action=get"
$sRest = @{
Uri = $uri
Method = ‘Post’
Headers = $auth
}
$resultRest = Invoke-RestMethod @sRest
$resultWeb = Invoke-WebRequest @sRest
The Invoke-RestMethod returns "interpreted" data, as we can see when we expand the result:
value
-----
@{created_time=2017-12-04T12:38:11.232Z; last_accessed_time=2017-12-04T12:49:38.850Z; user=Administrator@VSPHERE.LOCAL}
The Invoke-WebRequest returns the "raw" data. Notice how the "Content" property contains the (only) data we see with the Invoke-RestMethod:
StatusCode : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content : {"value":{"created_time":"2017-12-04T12:38:11.232Z","last_accessed_time":"2017-12-04T12:49:38.859Z","user":"Administrator@VSPHERE.LOCAL"}}
RawContent : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:49:38 GMT
{"value":{"created_time":"2017-12-04T12:38:11.232Z","last_accessed_time":"2017-12-04...
Forms : {}
Headers : {[Transfer-Encoding, chunked], [Content-Type, application/json], [Date, Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:49:38 GMT]}
Images : {}
InputFields : {}
Links : {}
ParsedHtml : mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass
RawContentLength : 138

What happens is that the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet does a lot of work for you. This includes translating StatusCode into an error message, when it is not 200. But it also converts JSON into a PowerShell object.

The cmdlet that I use is a matter of choice, but my personal preference is to use the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet. Why would you recode part of the functionality that is available in the cmdlet in each and every one of your scripts?

Authentication

Since we want to make secure calls to SOAP and REST API, both have implemented an authentication mechanism. Our scripts using SOAP API calls use the same session that we established with the Connect-VIServer cmdlet.

For calls from the REST API to vSphere, we also need to authenticate. That is done, in what other way? Through a specific REST API call. We convert our credentials into a "basic" Base64 chain:

$user = ‘administrator@vsphere.local’
$pswd = ‘VMware1!’
$vCenterName = ‘vcsa.local.lab’
$encoded = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes(($user, $pswd -Join ‘:’))
$encodedPassword = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($Encoded)
$authHeader = @{
Authorization = "Basic $($EncodedPassword)"
}
$sRest = @{
Method = ‘Post’
Uri = "https://$($vCenterName)/rest/com/vmware/cis/session"
Headers = $authHeader
}
$result = Invoke-RestMethod @sRest

Once we created a session this way, we can use the returned session token in future calls to the REST API. This authorization header can be created as follows. Note the nonstandard way (‘vmware-api-session-id’) VMware selected to name the session token header field:

$authHeader = @{
‘vmware-api-session-id’ = $result.value
}

We’ll follow this article with another soon that shows how to perform the same action twice, once via the SOAP API and once via the REST API. The differences between these two should make it clear where your gain, as the consumer/coder, is located.

VMware 2V0-620 Question Answer

An administrator has just completed installing an ESXi 6.x host, but doesn't know what address has been configured. Where is the ESXi host IP address configured?

A. RVC console
B. Direct Console User Interface
C. vSphere Web Client
D. vSphere Client

Answer: B



An administrator has just configured the IP address on an ESXi host from the Direct Console User Interface. How can the configuration be validated as without any additional tools?

A. Add the host to vCenter Server and if it works, then all networking settings are ok.
B. Select the Test Management Network option from the DCUI.
C. Connect to the host with the vSphere Client and click the Test Network option.
D. Use PowerCLI to connect to the host and initiate a network test.

Answer: B

VMware 2V0-620 Question Answer

Which three items should be validated prior to installing ESXi 6.x? (Choose three.)

A. Remote Storage has been disconnected.
B. Installation media is available.
C. Server hardware clock is set to UTC.
D. Storage has been partitioned with a VMFS volume.
E. Network cards have been setup to use Jumbo Frames.

Answer: ABC


An administrator has just completed performing an interactive installation of ESXi 6.x and is booting the host. How is the network initially configured?

A. The network is configured by Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA).
B. The network is configured based on the settings detected in DNS.
C. The network is configured with the address as specified in the installer.
D. The network is automatically configured by DHCP.

Answer: D

VMware 2V0-620 Question Answer

An administrator is performing an interactive installation of ESXi 6.x. Which three options are available for installation? (Choose three.)

A. DVD
B. USB
C. PXE
D. Scripted
E. Auto Deploy

Answer: ABC


An administrator is performing a scripted installation of ESXi 6.x. In which three locations does the script need to be? (Choose three.)

A. PXE Server
B. HTTPS
C. FTP
D. NFS
E. VVOLs Datastore

Answer: BCD

VMware 2V0-620 Question Answer

You have just installed an ESXi 6.x Host. As part of your company security regulations, a security banner must be presented on the console of the host.
How can this action be accomplished?

A. Configure the Advanced Settings > Annotations screen of the ESXi host.
B. This is configured from the Direct Console User Interface configuration menu.
C. It is not possible to configure a security banner for the ESXi host.
D. From vCenter Server, this setting is configured globally in the vCenter Server configuration.

Answer: A


In order for a company to meet regulatory requirements, all ESXi 6.x Hosts must be configured to direct logs to a syslog server.
What are two ways ESXi hosts can configured for this action? (Choose two)

A. Use the esxcli system syslog command.
B. Edit them in the ESXi host Advanced System Settings.
C. From the Syslog collector user interface of the Web Client.
D. Syslog logging is not available for ESXi Hosts.

Answer: AB

Telefónica steps up cloud with VMware, Huawei

Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica has activated a new cloud solution for the business segment using VMware's virtualization technology over Huawei's servers installed in Telefónica's data centers.

Telefónica's Virtual Data Center (VDC) 3.0 portfolio is available to companies in Spain, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and the United States.

In Brazil, the portfolio was named Vivo Cloud Plus 3.0. Vivo is the trademark of Telefónica Brasil.

The solution is mainly aimed at Telefónica's medium and large customers, those who require infrastructure services and who need to mobilize workloads to the cloud. Basically, it allows companies to have a dedicated physical environment with the same characteristics of a virtual data center.

With the launch, Telefónica aims to become the first company in Latin America to offer a fully automated hybrid cloud with VMware technology. VMWare reportedly has 80% of the global virtualization market.

The new version of VDC adds features such as automatic scaling and plan scaling, which adjust to peak demand. It also offers middleware applications such as service and disaster recovery as a service. Services are interconnected between different data centers.

A market is available to businesses to purchase as a service and a portal is available to VDC customers to manage the cloud infrastructure deployed in their various local nodes.

At a press conference in São Paulo, executives detailed the strategy. Telefónica wants to be a major hybrid cloud provider. The objective is to gain scale by selling the solution to corporations already hosted in Telefónica data centers or by making use of the companies' network services.

According to Fábio Costa, CEO of VMware Brazil, VDC 3.0 is 20% more efficient than Microsoft's Azure cloud solutions and Amazon Web Services services. Plans in Brazil start with 300 reais.

Alex Salgado, Vivo's B2B vice president, said the solution costs Brazilian reais 10 to 30 percent less than competitors' similar products.

At the end of this year, Telefónica plans to launch a new cloud enterprise solution, Cloud Foundation, aimed at customers looking for a fully hybrid environment, even in their infrastructure.

VMware 2V0-620 Question Answer

After installation of a host in your test environment, you need to move it to production. The only major change that needs to be made is that the hostname of the server needs to change. What are two ways that an administrator can change the host name without editing configuration files on the host directly? (Choose two.)

A. Login to the Direct Console User Interface and change it from here.
B. Edit the Default TCP/IP Configuration from the vSphere Web Client.
C. Use the Ruby vSphere Client to send a script to the ESXi host that updates the hostname.
D. Update the information in DNS and the ESXi host will automatically update with these changes.

Answer: AB


You are editing the management network configuration of an ESXi 6.x Host from the vSphere Web Client. You mistakenly put the inVLAN in place for the management network. What action do you need to take to this?

A. You need to manually edit the configuration on the host with command line utilities.
B. No action is required. By default ESXi rolls back configuration changes that disconnect the host.
C. The ESXi host system configuration will need to be restored to the factory configuration to fix the issue.
D. The change can be reverted in the vSphere Web Client by simply editing the switch again.

Answer: B

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Pass4sure 2V0-620 Question Answer

An administrator is installing vCenter Server for an environment that has 40 ESXi 6.x Hosts and 150 virtual machines. Which database would meet the minimal requirements needed for this task?

A. vFabric Postgres
B. Microsoft SQL Express 2008
C. Microsoft SQL Server 2014
D. Oracle 11g

Answer: A


What information is required as part of an interactive ESXi 6.x installation?

A. Keyboard layout
B. IP Address
C. Root password
D. DNS information

Answer: A

Pass4sure 2V0-620 Question Answer

An administrator deploys vCenter Server using the embedded Platform Services Controller. After testing the deployment for a couple of months, it is determined that the environment would be better served with an external Platform Services Controller. What should the administrator do to meet this new requirement?

A. Deploy a fresh instance of vCenter Server with an external Platform Services Controller.
B. Perform a fresh install of an external Platform Services Controller.
C. Migrate the embedded Platform Services Controller to an external Platform Services Controller.
D. Upgrade the embedded Platform Services Controller to an external Platform Services Controller.

Answer: A

Fullerton India Deploys VMware AirWatch For Its Mobility Needs

Vmware, the cloud infrastructure and business mobility solutions provider, announced that Fullerton India, the non-banking financial institution, has chosen VMware AirWatch to meet the mobility needs of the business. The deployment of VMware AirWatch will help Fullerton India support the growing mobility demands of its workforce, while securing its corporate resources, says the company.

Fullerton India shares that it has a network of 450 branches serving more than 1.1 million customers. With more than 7,500 employees, Fullerton India connects with customers at their doorsteps, be it in cities, towns or villages. Given its existing business model, majority of Fullerton India’s employees work remotely from laptops and tablets, and often face issues accessing critical corporate resources to work productively, especially in rural areas.

Fullerton India adds that deploying VMware AirWatch enables employees to easily access emails, content and applications on the go, while enabling IT administrators to control, manage and secure the devices remotely.

“Having a connected and productive workforce is crucial to the quality of our customer interactions. At Fullerton, we’ve always challenged the status-quo, whether it’s the services we offer or the technology we adopt for our business,” said Sudheer Prabhu, Chief Information Officer, Fullerton India Credit Co. Ltd. “We selected VMware AirWatch to implement a unified platform that can empower our workforce to work productively and on the move, while also enabling us to secure the confidential data that they are accessing across devices.”

VMware AirWatch is a scalable enterprise mobility management platform that integrates with existing enterprise systems and allows organisations to manage all devices, regardless of type, platform or ownership, from one central console.

Pass4sure 2V0-620 Question Answer

What is the effective vSphere licensing level during the 60 day evaluation period?

A. vSphere Foundation Essentials Plus
B. vSphere Standard
C. vSphere Enterprise
D. vSphere Enterprise Plus

Answer: D


What component must be installed prior to deploying a vCenter Server in vSphere 6.x?

A. vCenter Identity Services
B. Platform Services Controller
C. vCenter Single Sign-On
D. Client Integration Plug-In

Answer: B

There's a Serious Brain Drain Going at VMware That No One's Talking About

VMware announced on Tuesday that its President and COO Carl Eschenbach is leaving the company.

The news came as a bit of a surprise given Eschenbach was effectively the #2 guy behind CEO Pat Gelsinger.

But a closer look at VMware shows the top-level exodus has been quietly going on for a while, and Eschenbach is just the latest in a series of recent executive departures at the company.

Here's a quick run-down of its recent executive departures, based on LinkedIn profiles:

Jonathan Chadwick, CFO: Announced resignation last month

Ben Fathi, CTO: Left in September 2015 to join CloudFlare as Head of Engineering

Charles Fan, SVP and GM VSAN: Left in February 2016 to join Cheetah Mobile as CTO

Riccardo di Blasio, SVP vCloud Air Sales: Left in October 2015 to join Sequoia-backed Cohesity as COO

Simone Brunozzi, VP and Chief Technologist: Left in January 2016 to join stealth startup

Mathew Lodge, VP of vCloud Air Marketing: Left in August 2015 to join Accel-backed startup Weaveworks as COO

Diane Gonzalez, VP of vCloud Air Platform: Left in August 2015 to join Amazon as VP of Commerce Platform

Scott Collison, VP and GM vCloud Air: Left in September 2015 to join Bessemer-backed startup Nitrous as CEO

Ramin Sayer, SVP of Management: Left in December 2014 to join Sumo Logic as CEO

Martin Casado, GM and SVP of Networking: Left in February 2016 to join Andreessen Horowitz as general partner

That means in the past year alone, VMware has lost at least 11 of its top executives. On top of that, VMware announced last month that it would be laying off 800 employees, after giving lowered revenue guidance for the upcoming year.

So what's causing all this change? One former executive we spoke to blamed the current management structure, in which its parent company EMC holds about 80% control of the company. That allows EMC CEO Joe Tucci to have outsized influence over the company's direction, and his hands-on approach only intensified after activist investor Eliot Management took a larger stake in the company.

On top of that, the proposed merger between EMC and Dell is worrying a lot of people internally that the company would end up turning into a slowing company with no fresh innovation. VMware has lost almost 40% of its share value since the proposed merger was first announced in October 2015.

"They’re gonna turn into your dad’s software company," this person said.

Of course, this is one person's opinion, so it should be taken with a grain of salt. But Wall Street seems to be taking note of this trend, too, as FBR & Co. analyst Daniel Ives wrote in a recent note:

"We do have major worries about an exodus of employees of VMware wanting to run away from this situation and believe some execution issues can result from this deal, a dynamic VMware hinted at with its conservative 2016 outlook. This will remain a hot-button issue around the VMware story until the company proves otherwise, in our opinion."

When we asked VMware about it, its spokesperson told us this is just part of the company's natural transformation cycle, and pointed us towards its deep executive bench.

"Leadership change is a natural part of every company’s evolution and there is no connection between any of the departures. We continue to attract outstanding talent to the company and we have an extremely strong leadership bench," VMware's spokesperson said.

In fact, some of the executives on its bench, including sales leader Maurizio Carli, CTO Ray O'Farrell, and executive VP Sanjay Poonen were all promoted today to take on bigger roles within the company.

Regardless, with all the management change going on, the situation at VMware will continue to raise question marks for the rest of the year.

"Customers will lose confidence in the company," the former exec we spoke to said. "Where exactly is the company going?"

Pass4sure 2V0-620 Question Answer

A vSphere administrator needs to backup a virtual machine that has a Microsoft SQL Server
Database installed. Which solution allows for an application quiesce to occur during backup?

A. VMware vCenter Converter
B. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
C. VMware vSphere Replication
D. VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced

Answer: D

Pass4sure 2V0-620 Question Answer

An administrator is virtualizing a physical application server and adding it to an existing multitiered vApp. The application license is currently tied to the physical NIC's MAC address, so the administrator needs to ensure the license will function properly in the virtual machine. Which two actions can the administrator take to satisfy this task? (Select two.)

A. Set the MAC address for the vNIC in the guest operating system.
B. Install the physical server's NIC into the ESXi host.
C. Configure the MAC address for the vNIC using the vSphere Web Client.
D. Assign the physical server NIC's MAC address in the vSphere Distributed Switch.

Answer: A, C                                     

An administrator is attempting to migrate a large Hadoop virtual machine using vMotion. The administrator notices a delay when the machine is quiesced. The Hadoop virtual machine is processing many transactions a second to an in-memory database. Which two actions would help reduce the amount of time needed to perform a vMotion on this virtual machine? (Select two.)

A. Use multiple NICs for the vMotion vmkernel port.
B. Use a 10Gbps Network card for the vMotion vmkernel port.
C. Add an additional management network to help transmit the data quicker.
D. Disable Fault Tolerance before performing the vMotion.

Answer: A, B

Pass4sure 2V0-620 Question Answer

A new vApp was built and tested in the corporate headquarters datacenter running vSphere 6.x.
What condition would explain why the virtual machine is failing to boot in an offsite datacenter
running on vSphere 5.5?

A. The virtual machine was built with the default hardware version.
B. The VMFS 5 datastore is not compatible with virtual machines configured with vSphere 6.x.
C. A DRS 5.5 cluster cannot run virtual machines configured with vSphere 6.x.
D. The VMDK file is locked.

Answer: A

Pass4sure 2V0-620 Question Answer

A company has decided to implement Virtual SAN within their vSphere 6.x environment. The Virtual SAN cluster will be composed of three ESXi 6.x hosts that are on the Virtual SAN Ready Node list. Each ESXi host includes:

• Two SAS Controllers that support Passthrough Mode
• Four Solid State Drives (SSDs) 1TB in size each
• 20 SAS Magnetic Disks (MDs) 1TB in size each
• The SSDs and MDs are evenly split between the two SAS controllers

The company will pilot a Virtual SAN cluster utilizing VMware best practices while maximizing
storage capacity. The Virtual SAN cluster will use Manual Mode.
Which two Disk Group configurations would meet the stated configuration requirements? (Select two.)

A. 4 disk groups with 1 SSD and 5 MDs each
B. 2 disk groups with 1 SSD and 7 MDs each
C. 2 disk groups with 2 SSDs and 7 MDs each
D. 2 disk groups with 1 SSD and 10 MDs each

Answer: A, B