VMware vSphere Component based Interview Questions with Answers

More VMware Interview questions targeting ESXi, Load Balancing, Virtual Center, vMotion etc. Good Luck! What is the difference between the vSphere ESX and ESXi architectures? vSphere ESX and ESXi are both bare-metal hypervisor architectures that install directly on the server hardware. Both provide industry-leading performance and scalability; the difference resides in the architecture components and

Cloud Computing and Virtualization – Interview Questions

Go through the below for a basic overview of the standard concept questions to expect regarding Cloud and Virtualization. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the internet). What are the services? IAAS- Infrastructure as a service

VMware vSphere HA and FT – Troubleshooting

Below you can find the important Configuration and Operational errors that might occur with vSphere HA and FT and how to handle them. vSphere High Availability Error Messages This table lists some of the error messages you can encounter when configuring a vSphere HA cluster: Configuration Errors Operation Error Message Description and Solution Migrating a

VMware Fault Tolerance – Interview Questions

Important Interview Questions on VMware Fault Tolerance - What is VMware Fault Tolerance? VMware Fault Tolerance is a feature that allows a new level of guest redundancy. It provides 100% continuous availability for applications/Machines. How do I turn it on? The feature is enabled on a per virtual machine basis. Right Click on Virtual machine at vCenter Server,

Citrix Interview Questions – XenApp and XenDesktop

Below Questions are asked in recent interviews. Answers can be found in our previous posts. XenApp: Tell me about your environment? Tell me your Roles and responsibilities? Size of your team? and your role? What is data collector? What happens if datastore connection lost? What are the challenges that you have faced in current environment?

Citrix XenApp Troubleshooting Scenarios Interview Questions

This blog covers the commonly asked Citrix XenApp Troubleshooting Scenarios during Interviews. The previous blogs discuss the XenApp Installation and Components Questions. What happens if datastore connectivity is lost? If the server loses its connection to the central data store, there’s no limit to how long it will continue to function. (In MetaFrame XP, this is

Citrix XenApp Components Interview Questions

Below are some commonly asked Interview Questions on Citrix XenApp Components. Our previous blog contains questions on Citrix XenApp Installation and upcoming blog will cover Troubleshooting scenarios. What is a Citrix Xenapp farm? Farm is group of XenApp servers where we are going to publish the applications What is a Data collector? Stores dynamic information,

Citrix XenApp Installation Interview Questions

Below are some commonly asked Interview Questions regarding Citrix XenApp Installation and Features. Upcoming blogs will cover Citrix XenApp Components and Troubleshooting Scenarios. Explain about your environment? For example: We got 3 farms and 50 Citrix Xenapp Servers, which consists 300 applications used by almost 2000 users. We are managing different versions of citrix environments,

Minimum Hardware Requirements for vCenter Server System

The vCenter Server system is a physical machine or virtual machine with access to a supported database. The vCenter Server system must meet specific requirements. Minimum Hardware Requirements for vCenter Single Sign On, Running on a Separate Host Machine from vCenter Server  vCenter Single Sign On Hardware Requirement Processor Intel or AMD x64 processor with

Changes in vSphere 5.x compared to 4.x

Below table highlights the major changes in VMware vSphere 5.x compared to the previous vSphere 4.x series. Service Console is removed ESXi does not include a Service Console. Many tasks can be performed by using vCLI commands in place of esxcli commands on Service console and also by using powercli ESXi does not have a