Creating Virtual Machines

Question 1

Can the vsphere client be used to create and edit version 10 VMs?

Answer 1

No, only the vsphere web client

Question 2

How do you enable vmware tools time synchronization?

Answer 2

VmwareToolboxCmd.exe timesync enable

Question 3

What activities force vmware time synchronization?

Answer 3

• Starting VMware Tools service/daemon (reboot or power on)
  ■ Resuming a VM from a suspend operation
  ■ Reverting to snapshot
  ■ Shrinking a disk

Question 4

What are independent disks and their two modes?

Answer 4

Independent disks are excluded from snapshot operations
Independent persistent
Independent non-persistent

Question 5

What does not support application consistent quiescing?

Answer 5

IDE and SATA controllers

Question 6

What are the two SCSI bus sharing options?

Answer 6

Physical and Virtual

Question 7

What are the two RDM modes?

Answer 7

Physical and Virtual (snapshot enabled)

Question 8

What are some operations that vmware converter is useful for?

Answer 8

• Shrinking disks
  ■ Downgrading the virtual machine hardware version
  ■ Making clones of VMs with snapshots
  ■ Changing hypervisors