Netwerk infrastructuur, configuring virtual networks , storage infrastructure, managing storage

8 important questions on Netwerk infrastructuur, configuring virtual networks , storage infrastructure, managing storage

Identify the components of virtual networking

  • vSphere standard Switch -> vSwitch, VSS, simple layer 2 switch
  • vSphere Distributed Switch -> vDSwitch, VDS, Shared across hosts, single management, more functionality
  • VMkernel Port -> Management, IP storage, Inter-host traffic, vMotion
  • VM Port Group -> VM NICs
  • Uplinks -> ESXi host NICs

What is vSwitch port-based load balancing?

Ties (or pins) each virtual swtich port to a specific uplink associated with the vSwitch.

What is source MAC-based load balancing?

Ties a virutal network adapter to a physical network adapter based on the MAC address.
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What is IP hash-based Load balancing?

Scalable policy that allows VMs to use more than one physical network adapter when communicating with multiple destination hosts.

What is Promiscuous mode?

Allows a VMs virtual adapters to access traffic over other than its own

What are the shared storage protocol choices of vSphere?

  • Fibre channel
  • Fibre channel over ethernet (FCoE)
  • iSCSI
  • Network File System (NFS)

What are the different ways to manage storage?

  • At the vSphere layer -> vSphere Virtual Machine File System (VMFS).
    • Datastores are up to 64 TB in size
    • Datastores use a block size of 1 MB
    • Virtual-mode RDMs for devices up to 62 TB in size
  • At the VM layer using SPBM -> Storage Policy Based Management.
  • At the VM layer using virtual volumes -> 5 VVOL types: Config-VVOL, Data-VVOL, mem-VVOL, Swap-VVOL, other-VVOL
  • At the VM layer using VMDKs -> Virtual Disks are how VMs encapsulate their disk devices. VDs come in three formats:
    • Thin Provisioned Disk
    • Thick Provisioned lazy zeroed
    • Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed

What are the 5 different Virtual Volumes (VVOL)?


  1. Config-VVOL -> VMX, logs, etc.
  2. Data-VVOL -> VMDK
  3. Mem-VVOL -> Snapshots
  4. Swap-VVOL -> Swapfiles
  5. Other-VVOL -> CBRC, etc.

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