VMware Interview Questions

1. Explain about your production environment? How many clusters, ESX, Data
Centres, H/w etc?
2. How does VMotion works? Whats the port number used for it?
3. Prerequisites for VMotion
4. Prerequisites for HA?
5. How do DRS works? Which technology used? What are the priority counts to
migrate the VMs?
6. How does snap shots works?
7. What are the files will be created while creating a VM and after powering on
the VM?
8. If the VMDK header file corrupt what will happen? How do you troubleshoot?
9. What are the prerequisites for installing VC and Update manager?
10. Have you ever patched the ESX host? What are the steps involved in that?
11. I turned on Maintenance mode in an ESX host, all the VMs has been migrated
to another host, but only one VM failed to migrate? What are the possible
reasons?
12. How will you turn start / stop a VM through command prompt?
13. I have upgraded a VM from 4 to 8 GB RAM; its getting failed at 90% of
powering on? How do you troubleshoot?
14. Storage team provided the new LUN ID to you? How will you configure the
LUN in VC? What would be the block size (say for 500 GB volume size)?
15. I want to add a new VLAN to the production network? What are the steps
involved in that? And how do you enable it?
16. Whats the difference between Top and ESXTOP command?
17. How will you check the network bandwidth utilization in an ESXS host
through command prompt?
18. How will you generate a report for list of ESX, VMs, RAM and CPU used in
your Vsphere environment?
19. What the difference between connecting the ESX host through VC and
Vsphere? What are the services involved in that? What are the port numbers
used?
20. How does FT works? Prerequisites? Port used?

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VMware Interview Questions

21. Can I VMotion between 2 different data centres? Why?

22. Can I deploy a VM by template in different data centres?
23. I want to increase the system partition size (windows 2003 server- Guest OS)
of a VM? How will you do it without any interruption to the end user?
24. Which port number used while 2 ESX transfer the data in between?
25. Unable to connect to a VC through Vsphere client? What could be the reason?
How do you troubleshoot?
26. Have you ever upgraded the ESX 3.5 to 4.0? How did you do it?
27. What is AAM? Where is it used? How do you start or stop through command
prompt?
28. How will you change the service console IP?
29. Whats the difference between ESX and ESXi?
30. What is the Maximum Virtual SCSI adapters per virtual machine?
31. What is the Maximum Virtual SCSI targets per virtual SCSI adapter?
32. What is the Maximum IDE controllers per virtual machine?
33. What is the Maximum Parallel ports per virtual machine?

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VMware Interview Questions