Thursday 29 October 2015

VCP550D Exam Question No 29

Question No 29:

An administrator needs to modify a virtual machine alert to increase the threshold value of the trigger. Once
connected to the vCenter Server, the administrator navigates to the virtual machine to make the change.
However, the administrator is unable to edit the alarm. What is the reason that this alarm cannot be edited?

A.
The alarm was not defined on this inventory object.
B.
The administrator is not the owner of this inventory object.
C.
The alarm was not created by the administrator.
D.
The alarm has not been acknowledged.

Answer: A

Wednesday 21 October 2015

VMware and EMC shock everyone by launching a new company while Dell tries to buy them





VMware has made its third quarter results on Tuesday and fell on an announcement that surprised everyone.
VMware and its parent company, EMC, the launch of a new spin-out company called Virtustream, where both VMware and EMC have a share of 50/50.

This is a cloud computing company that will compete with Amazon, Google and Microsoft, with the hardware and software at its core EMC VMware, including cloud technical management of a company called Virtustream that EMC bought this last spring for $ 1, 2 billion.
The spin-out at this stage is very rare because the Dell last week announced it was acquiring EMC for a record $ 67 billion, including the majority stake in EMC VMware.

Although the acquisition of Dell-EMC will not be complete for months, all this new company will end up under the aegis of Dell, once it is completed. So to announce a spin-off at this point is striking.
Perhaps the real point is to demonstrate to shareholders that VMware Dell will actually nonintervention with VMware. Dell even wrote a blog post Monday pledging not spoil VMware.

Meanwhile, VMware shares fell sharply after Dell announced the acquisition.
That's a problem because the agreement to buy EMC Dell includes "monitoring" of shares to shareholders to represent their property EMC VMware. Dell uses the value of the shares of VMware to help boost its bid for EMC of about $ 24 per share of about $ 30 per share.

Investors are still not happy with VMware. The stock fell 5% in after-hours trading.
As expected, VMware also reported a strong third quarter, surpassing the revenue gains and thus fulfilling their forecasts for growth. VMware announced previously expected results last week when Dell and EMC have announced the proposed acquisition.

He announced a third quarter profit of $ 1.02 per share on revenue of $ 1.67 billion - an increase of almost 10% year on year.

Its orientation was to a great 2016 revenue growth of two low digits, with Wall Street for 10.9%. It is the fourth quarter EPS guidance was $ 1.23 to $ 1.27, when analysts expected $ 1.23.

VCP550D Exam Question No 28

Question No 28:

A vSphere administrator can create an alarm on which two objects? (Choose two.)

A.
LUN
B.
Data store
C.
Template
D.
Folder

Answer: B,D

Sunday 18 October 2015

Prediction: VMware competitors will cash in on the heels of Dell/EMC merger



Fusion say Dell and EMC $ 67 B is large and complex is an understatement. Dell borrow most of the money needed to complete the transaction.
A component of the transaction requires Dell to issue follow VMware shares to existing shareholders EMC. As a result, Dell will have a 40% stake in VMware without losing voting control of the company. Customers and the market are wondering about the long-term impacts Dell VMware control.
I reached out to understand how VMware customers can benefit from the new relationship with Dell. A VMware spokesman responded: "It is important to note that VMware will continue executing its mission of delivering value to customers across the computing, networking and storage software solutions defined with its clouds, offers mobile and desktop does not change. . "
Stu Miniman, Senior Research Contributing Wikibon said: "Overall, the agreement has no immediate impact on VMware" I agree -. But that makes the short-term impact. three main areas that plan may affect the ecosystem of VMware.
Computer Software Defined
VMware has always sought to diversify beyond the hypervisor. Competitors like Nutanix and Scale Computing began to fulfill the promise of open source solutions like KVM code. Nutanix both scale and provide solutions that manage virtual machines running on KVM. Customers have figured out how to virtualize applications KVM summit be a very good experience. In addition, as Larry Dignan of ZDNet, Microsoft Hyper-V provides an additional option shown. VMware continued to dominate due to environmental features such as HA and DRS company.
Mismatch between VMware and Dell directly on the hypervisor, but it's hard to ignore relations with VMware Dell's competitors; the relationship is visible having Nutanix. Dell sells a brand of hyper infrastructure solution (HCI) Nutanix converged. VMware sells EVO: RAIL which competes directly with Nutanix. Today, Dell sells both EVO: RAIL and Nutanix HCl solution; it would make sense for Dell to focus on selling EVO: RAIL Nutanix Nutanix or let the entire agreement expires.

1. Storage

I always thought that VMware continues to add features to their storage products. VMware has the potential to be damaging to the server x86 SAN. Disruption would be at the cost of EMC's parents or soon-to-be parents Dell. One need not go beyond Nutanix to see the potential of this market. From the perspective of maturity, I compare the Nutanix solution and offers midrange storage Dell EMC. Speaking with Nutanix Solutions Architect, he says he has never lost a contract high-end range of EMC VMAX. The point is I do not think VMware to move the boat to one of the companies based storage EMC and Dell

2. Newtwork

Dell has been very active in the market for the switching of the white box. In the past, Dell has partnered with providers of software solutions for network management as defined by VMware and clusters. One of the first marketing messages about VMware NSX solution was the ability to use networking products such as Dell unlabelled product. NSX provides network intelligence and network services based on standard hardware.
I've always wondered what GM Martin Casado Red VMware VMware could create if purchased from a supplier of network equipment. The new relationship with Dell may be the closest to the industry sees a network device VMware brand. Dell looking product roadmap for future alliances with suppliers as Arista Networks.

3. Conclusion

I think VMware's competitors to take advantage of the uncertainty that comes from any large merger. I agree with the assessment of the merger Miniman EMC and Dell have any impact VMware directly. I think it's an opportunity to review its technology in VMware technologies.
It is possible that Dell can simply buy the remaining part of VMware sometime. Dell said it intends to increase its stake in VMware in the coming years. If this happens, there will be major changes in the industry products and VMware virtualization in general.

Friday 16 October 2015

VCP550D Exam Question No 27

Question No 27:

An administrator determines that when a host residing in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails, the virtual
machines fail to restart on a remaining host, or will only restart after a long delay. Which two conditions
would account for this behavior? (Choose two.)

A.
The virtual machines were not protected by vSphere HA at the time the failure occurred.
B.
Distributed Resource Scheduler was not enabled at the time the failure occurred.
C.
There is insufficient spare capacity on hosts with which the virtual machines are compatible.
D.
The virtual machines contain physical Raw Device Mappings.

Answer: A, C

Thursday 8 October 2015

VCP550D Exam Question No 26

Question No 26:

A vSphere administrator needs a way of sending noncritical ESXi events to a remote server. Due to budget
constraints, no additional costs should be incurred.
Which tool will best meet this requirement?

A.
VSphere Syslog Collector
B.
VSphere ESXi Dump Collector
C.
VSphere vCenter Log Insight
D.
VSphere Management Appliance

Answer: A

Sunday 4 October 2015

VMware vCenter and ESXi fall foul of remote code execution bugs

Users of vCenter and ESXi should update their installations now to avoid the chance of remote code execution occurring on their host machines.

A configuration insecurity Java Management Extensions (JMX) In VMware vCenter was trapped like a feat would cause code execution on the host machines.
One of the discoverers of the security hole elements 7 Doug McLeod, told The vulnerability allows access to the server machine system of the virtual machine, and resulted in a total commitment to the environment.
"VMware vCenter Server provides a centralized platform for managing your VMware vSphere so you can automate and provide virtual infrastructure. VMware vCenter was found to bind to a cell JMX RMI unauthenticated / service network" said Advisory 7 elements.

 
Since the JMX service does not require authentication, a user could call to load a managed bean from a remote URL may point to a JAR file containing the code, called When would lead to remote code execution.
"Now with the tools available, is trivial to take complete control over a vulnerable instance of vCenter exercise," Mcleod wrote in a blog.
"The attack vector is already known Metasploit gun With two separate modules and operate, composed of Java class files, compiled and executed when it makes a request to the server for execution."
VCenter Server versions 5.0 through 6.0 are vulnerable through the feat with VMware release patches available. Reported Mcleod said VMware vulnerability to February 27, 2015.

 
Mcleod was not the only search engine vulnerability to an anonymous researcher Thanking VMware HP Zero Day Initiative, and on its board.
In the same advice, she reported that VMware ESXi versions 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 have been affected by an error of remote code execution, too.
"VMware ESXi contains a double free vulnerability in SLPDProcessMessage () function OpenSLP. The exploitation of this issue could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute remote code on the ESXi host," VMware Said.

 
"VMware would like to thank Tang Qinghao Qihu this number 360 to indicate to us."
It was the relationship of speculation that could be EMC VMware on the rocks.
If this measure were to occur, EMC senior vice president Jon Peirce He told ZDNet EMC would be a good position to handle the changes that may occur.

Thursday 1 October 2015

VCP550D Exam Question No 25

Question No 25:

Which two are supported object types for Update Manager? (Choose two.)

A.
Virtual appliances
B.
Templates
C.
VApps
D.
Hosts

Answer: A, D