Top 10 VMware Interview Questions and Answers

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Jul 24, 2017 · 3 min read

To cater the rising deployment of virtualization around the globe, VMware administrators are in great demand. Here we list of some the most asked VMware interview questions and answers that you must prepare in 2017.

In order to get a job with the ability of VMware administrator, you have to answer the questions related to VMware virtualization technologies. Here are some of the vital questions asked during interviews and would definitely going to help you answer them confidently.

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VMware Interview Questions and Answers

1. Mention what is VMware and what are their benefits?

Answer: VMware provides different applications and software for virtualization. VMware products are categorized in two levels, desktop applications, and Server applications. It is useful for

· Running multiple operating systems and applications on a single computer

· Consolidate hardware to get vastly higher productivity form fewer servers

· Save more than 50% of total cost spend on IT

· It simplifies IT management and speed up the deployment of new applications

2. Can you please explain how VMWare Kernel different from other kernels?

Answer: VMWare kernel is a proprietary kernel that means that it is a registered kernel by VMWare Company and it is not based on any other kernel architecture or any other operating system. VMWare consists of a kernel that requires an operating system to boot it. A service console is being provided when VMWare kernel is booted.

3. Mention what are the different types of virtualization available?

Answer: Different types of virtualization available are

· Application virtualization

· Presentation virtualization

· Network virtualization

· Storage virtualization

4. Do you know what are the features provided by VMWare for easy access?

Answer: VMWare provides several features to make it easy for the user to access and maintain it. The features are as follows:

· VMWare provides web browser interface

· It provides easy to use wizard to configure the settings

· It provides tools to easily create hosts and maintain it from one place

· It provides easy maintenance of Virtual machines

· It provides easy graphics to configure the VMWare settings for security

5. Mention what are the different types of server software does VMware provides?

Answer: VMware provides three different types of server software

· VMware ESX Server

· VMware ESXi Server

· VMware Server

6. Explain what is hypervisor?

Answer: Hypervisor is a program that enables multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host. Each operating system has the host’s processor, memory and other resources all to itself. Hypervisor controls the resources and host processor, allocating what is required for each operating system in turn and make sure that the guest operating system cannot disrupt each other.

7. Explain what is VMware DRS?

Answer: VMware DRS stands for Distributed Resource Scheduler; it dynamically balances resources across various host under cluster or resource pool. It enables users to determine the rules and policies which decide how virtual machines deploy resources, and these resources should be prioritized to multiple virtual machines.

8. Tell me why snapshots are really important in VMWare?

Answer: Snapshots are images that is been taken at a particular point from the virtual guest operating system. The snapshot consists of the virtual machine configurations, memory and the devices that were present at the time of the snapshot. By doing this, you can return back to virtual machine which might have become corrupted or might not be working. Snapshots can be taken anytime according to your need and requirement. Snapshots can be saved and then system can be reverted back in case of any disaster happened to your operating system.

9. Explain VMware Fault Tolerance?

Answer: VMware fault tolerance is an important component of VMware vSphere, and it offers continuous accessibility to applications by preventing data loss and down time of virtual machines in the event of ESX server failure.

10. Tell me what is the use of VMWare workstation?

Answer: VMWare workstation is software that allows user to run more than one operating system in there system. It provides virtualization to run different applications on many operating systems at a single time. It saves the current configuration of operating system for the user in the form of virtual machines. VMWare allows user to view there application and work with so many different OS without even switching between the OSs.

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