Thursday 28 April 2016

VCP550D Exam Question No 50

Question No 50:

A vSphere administrator is administering a vSphere Distributed Switch port group using the vSphere Web Client. The port group was configured using Static binding, but the number of ports must increase as virtual machines are added to the port group. Which port allocation setting should the administrator use to achieve this goal?

A.
Elastic
B.
Dynamic
C.
Fixed
D.
Manual

Answer: A

Sunday 24 April 2016

VMware shares are hot now as Dell Deal Looks Close

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this column gave the wrong date for shareholders to vote on the proposed sale of Dell EMC.

EMC said it is close to finalizing its sale to Dell, and this has contributed to the actions of your business VMware red hot.

VMware shares rose 14% to $ 58.53 on Wednesday after the software maker said virtual storage sales in the first quarter were slightly better than Wall Street expectations. He also issued a set of revenue for the second quarter traffic forecast can also exceed analysts' estimates slightly.

These estimates were reduced in January after VMWare has reduced its forecast for sales growth in 2016.
VMware also benefited after the leaders said the company would start once repurchasing EMC (EMC) to shareholders voting on the transaction Dell. The proposed sale will allow private EMC VMware, but as a unit traded holding company Michael Dell, Denali.

"We are actively working on finalizing Securities (necessary documents) so we can get to a vote of shareholders as soon as possible," said CEO Joseph Tucci EMC on the results of the first quarter call the company on Wednesday.

Tucci said the deal has cleared regulatory barriers in all countries except China and reiterated that the deal will close in the second or third trimester.

EMC, which held about 80% of the shares of VMWare when the agreement was announced in October, said the vote on the agreement in place take place at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting, a date has not been set.

Reaffirming the Dell agreement will close to its original programming, EMC helped ease investor concerns about the deal that keeps their actions and below the sticker price announced $ 33.15 per share. For a few weeks, even below $ 24.05 they languished a cash price of Dell stock has agreed to pay. EMC shares also rose Wednesday finishing 3.2% higher than $ 26.37.

These concerns include how the Denali debt by this LBO will be taken.

VMware shares have been even worse since the huge bet Michael Dell news became public. Since Dell will pay by the transaction monitoring VMware securities that will dilute its shareholders, investors find themselves on the wrong end of a classic arbitrage transaction (VMware, EMC buy) side, we he warned the players there are about seven months.

While trade was still a generator of money in November, allegedly ARB offices are temporary and seems to reproduce.

Since last fall, Michael Dell has raised more money to help pay for EMC. These deals include the sale of enterprise IT services Dell NTT Data Corp. Japan for $ 3 million dollars on March 28.
Dell is also in talks to sell more of its software units, according to Bloomberg News, including Documentum and SonicWall, aiming to raise billions more.

The moves have encouraged investors disheartened VMware above, who have seen their shares lose 45% of its value between October 7 and the report of disappointing first quarter of VMware in late January.
disgruntled shareholders were able to stop the creation of a new unit of EMC that would have added more complexity and risk for investors VMware.

This movement, which have joined the cloud computing units EMC and VMware and put the cost to the development of combination products in the income statement of VMware, was announced but quickly cleaned.

With the news of the last 24 hours, the pressure of arbitration in sales of VMware seems to be declining rapidly or already completed.

VMware shares may open up new increases. In the longer term, however, investors holding shares weighing should be aware that analysts have reduced their growth forecasts for almost half the company three months ago.
And while future repurchases shares of VMware mitigate the effect on future follow-up actions will dilute current shareholders even more.

EMC shares are also seen as a commercial purchase by the end of May, the case of Dell, unless unforeseen panic or other bad news.

The population increase Wednesday came even after it reported sales fell 2% over the previous year, as fears faded in the transaction.

Because of its participation in the structure of the transaction VMware and Dell, any increase in the shares of VMware also goose the value of EMC between now and when taken private.

So, after suffering for months in the hands of the sellers of arbitration, the best way to make money on VMware in the near future is to be long and not too short.

Thursday 21 April 2016

VCP550D Exam Question No 49

Question No 49:

A vSphere administrator creates a new vSphere Distributed Switch. The administrator receives notice from the service desk that a cluster of vSphere hosts has disconnected from vCenter Server. This disconnect occurred immediately after the new switch was created. · This vSphere Distributed Switch is the only distributed switch managed by vCenter. · The virtual machines are still functional and the applications are still accessible by end users. On the ESXi hosts, which step must the vSphere administrator take to allow vCenter Server to reconnect?

A.
Use the Direct Console User Interface to reattach the management vmnic to the appropriate switch
B.
Use the Direct Console User Interface to disable lockdown mode on each affected host
C.
Use the ESXi Shell to restart the mgmt-vmware service on each affected host
D.
Use the ESXi Shell to restart the vSphere Web Client service on each affected host

Answer: A

Thursday 14 April 2016

VCP550D Exam Question No 48

Question No 48:

A vSphere administrator upgrades a version 5.1.0 vSphere Distributed Switch to version 5.5.0. Another vSphere administrator, unaware of this change, tries to add an ESXi version 5.1.0 host to the switch and fails. What is causing this addition of the ESXi host to fail?

A.
The upgraded switch supports version 5.5 ESXi hosts only.
B.
The upgraded switch must be set up for backwards compatibility.
C.
The switch failed to upgrade properly.
D.
A version 5.5 ESXi host must be added to the switch before the 5.1 host.

Answer: A

Sunday 10 April 2016

Puppet hires president from VMWare, revamps name and logo as it preps 'for the next 10 years'

Puppet Labs has hired a senior executive of California-based VMware Inc. to carry out their planning and customer relationship product. Sanjay Mirchandani, who became the first puppet president and chief operating officer, had positions at EMC and Microsoft played before.





Puppetry has also introduced a new logo and drop "Labs" from its name, said it and how employees and customers relate to the business. It is the second name change for the 11-year-old company, known until 2010 as the reduction of laboratories.

These changes, as well as a pair of Thursday announced product updates puppet reflect the ambition to become a long-term, established business, as the founder and CEO Luke Kanies.

"All this is to prepare for the next 10 years," he said.

Puppet software helps large corporations manage their computer networks, computer design to operate according to specific instructions and inform the people in charge when something goes wrong. Customers include AT & T, Intel, Salesforce.com, Twitter and many non-technology companies with its own large computer systems.

Puppet private company does not report financial results, but Kanies said the company has increased by 70 percent last year. The company is preparing a public offering in savings this year, but put those plans on hold indefinitely in January despite the turmoil in financial markets.

Puppetry exercised an option in his seat in Portland is, however, increasing their presence by 50 percent. The company has 420 employees, 330 of them in Portland.

Mirchandani, president of the new puppet, was stationed in Singapore, where he was vice president and general manager of VMware for Asian markets. He said the decision to Portland reflects an interest in building on the success of puppets in the enterprise software market.

"There is much more we can do and that to me is the interesting part," he said.

VMware is one of the main financiers of puppets, investing $ 30 million in the company in 2013 and participate in two rounds. But Mirchandani said his decision to join puppet became independent of its role in VMware and VMware Kanies said was not involved in the hiring decision - quite the opposite, actually.

"We have worked very, very hard to make sure they are not aware of the talks until the documents were signed," Kanies said.

Puppet is one of the few technology companies Oregon attracted executives from the ranks of the biggest names in the technology industry. CFO Bill Koefoed was CFO of Microsoft longtime former leader Simon Hayes Citrix is ​​now vice president of corporate puppet and business development and vice president of product Casco Jamie came to Evernote.

Besides being the name of the company, puppets is the name of a management tool open source computer networks. marionette business offers additional software to automate and manage complex changes in computer systems, changes that would otherwise be expensive or impossible to implement manually.

Puppet software is part of an ecosystem of interconnected software, he said, and Puppetry - the company, which is - wants the new name to reflect its role in the integration of these tools.

It is understood?

"Since there is no confusion, confusion that is already there," Kanies said. "It gives us the opportunity to go directly to the confusion."

Disclaimer: This article has been updated to clarify its description of activity puppets.

Thursday 7 April 2016

VCP550D Exam Question No 47

Question No 47:

A security team is validating policy settings in a vSphere environment. By default, which security policy is set to reject on a vSphere Standard Switch?

A.
Promiscuous mode
B.
MAC address changes
C.
Forged transmit
D.
Use explicit failover

Answer: A

Sunday 3 April 2016

VMware flushes Adobe Flash in new HTML 5 web client for vSphere

Administrators have a great march: first update released VMware vSphere 6.o 2, with a new management interface host HTML 5. And now he is released from an HTML 5 for vCenter interface.

The new client is a "Fling", the name of VMware for unsupported and do not run the code in production quality thinking vAdmins appreciate. Flings are often used as de facto beta test and is the case here:

VMware said he wanted to get the code against the ASAP customers, looking forward to feedback from users and promises reasonably common changes in code. Meaning that walks like a bet and quacks like a beta ... you know the rest.

VMware has joined the "we are much more flash garbage leaking" brigade in this press apology writes that "The decision to go with Flash was there years before and development tools HTML5 were ready. The situation has changed, and who worked very hard on eliminating dependence flash to improve performance, stability and security. "

For now, the Fling is as follows:
  •  Power Operations VM (common cases)
  •  Edit the virtual machine configuration (single CPU, memory, disk changes)
  •  VM Console
  •  Pages VM Host and summary
  •  VM Migration (only one host)
  •  Clone to Template / VM
  •  Create virtual machine on a host (limited)
  •  Additional views monitoring (performance charts, tasks, events)
  •  Global Views (recent works, alarms are only)
VMware said new look client is called "clarity" and is also in beta. Here it is, embiggenable
To play with the client, you must install the OVA virtual device in which it is packaged, available here on the top left of the page.

vAdmins customers complained against web-based VMware management for years. Virtzilla now expect grunting can be implied, since tested this new client.