Basic vmware questions.....
1. Difference between VI3 and vSphere4 and what is the current updated version available.
2. Basic difference between ESX 3.x 3.5 & 4.x
3. What is a standard procedure to restart ESX host in production environment.
4. What is port group and explain the use of VMkernal
5. How to recover the root password in ESX?
6. Explain the difference between datacenter role and administrator role. Which would be more powerful?
7. What is the major role about the vmtools and what is the necessity to install the tool in windows and other OS.
8. Tell me some of the port number which are used for vCenter and ESX
9. What is the PSOD and how to fix it?
10. Explain HA and DRS and what are the pre-requisitive to configure both?
11. What is the min hardware requirement to install ESX 4.x
12. Default Partitions created while installing ESX server.
13. Steps to add the NFS share to ESX host.
14. What is the output of this commands esxcfg-vswif –l & esxcfg-vswitch –l ?
15. How to check the vmware version in esx host using command?
16. What is the use of vmsupport command?
17. What is the use of the following commands?
i. esxcfg-vswitch – L vmnic1 vSwitch0
ii. esxcfg-mpath –l
iii. esxcfg-mpath –b
iv. uname –r
18. Using command prompt check whether lun is connected ESX host.
19. Using cmd how to check the path of registered virtual machines file?
20. How to stop the virtual machine from command prompt?
Default Partitions created while installing ESX server.
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VMKcore - 110MB - Blue screen
VMFS3 - Space required to store Virtual M/c
SWAP - 600 MB - simillar to pagefile sys
root Partition
boot Partition
/Var /log Partition
Answer to "How to stop the virtual machine from command prompt".
ReplyDeleteStopping the virtual machine by issuing the command vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes///.vmx stop. This must be done on the ESX host where the Virtual Machine is running!
If this does not work, one can issue the following command: vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes///.vmx stop hard. This will try to kill the Virtual Machine instantly.
A final solution is to kill the PID (process ID). Issue the following command: ps auxfwww | grep to locate the correct PID (BTW: this cannot be done via ESXTOP). The first number to appear in the output is your PID. The PID can be used to terminate the process by issuing kill -9 PID.
Another way to stop an errant VM is to issue the commands vm-support -x to list the running VMs and their World IDs, then vm-support -X worldid (note the x is case sensitive in both commands). This then prompts the user with a couple of questions, then runs a debug stop of the VM, and creates a set of log files as well that you can forward to VMware tech support for them to check if you so desire . . .
Baba,
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-Sadiq
Very useful one, am just a beginner for VM and am very happy that, got to know some good questions about VM. Expecting more like this..... Thanks
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