VCP550D Sample Question : 12

QUESTION 12:

A vSphere administrator needs to perform packet tracing from a Linux virtual machine. The virtual machine is attached to a vSphere Standard Switch configured with several VLANs.
Which approach could the administrator use to configure the network to capture all traffic from the Linux virtual machine?

A. Configure the virtual switch with VLAN Trunking and specify each VLANs on the port group
containing the virtual machine.
B. Configure a vSphere Distributed Switch with VLAN Trunking. Create a port group and configure
it with Promiscuous Mode. Connect the virtual machine to that port group.
C. Configure the port group containing the virtual machine for Promiscuous Mode. Set the port
group to use VLAN 1.
D. Configure a vSphere Distributed Switch with VLAN Trunking. Connect the virtual machine to the switch and enable Port Mirroring on the port group containing the virtual machine.

Answer: B

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How Do the VMware ROBO Editions Differ?

The new offering for remote/branch offices, VMware ROBO, comes with different features and VM licensing models.

VMware vSphere Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) is available in standard and advanced editions. Both editions of VMware vSphere Hypervisor ROBO provide and share a common core of functionality. These include high availability (HA), vSphere vMotion, Storage vMotion, vSphere add warm data protection, replication, fault tolerance (FT) and vShield Endpoint security.

The advanced edition is based on the standard set of functions to include vSphere Distributed Switch, Host Profiles and auto-deployment. The Advanced Edition can be more attractive for larger, distributed enterprise environments that need the additional automation to deploy and manage remote systems.

Perhaps more interesting than the feature set is the approach to licensing. Previous VMware vSphere Essentials Kit for retail products and branches was based on licensing and applies to a maximum of three for the ESXi host based on the outlet site. New editions of VMware ROBO and has licenses for 25 virtual machines per site and remove the cap on ESXi. Note that some features are eliminated.

VSphere editions THEFT end the licenses previously included with the legacy vCenter Server Essentials kit, but users can use current versions of vCenter Server Standard for ROBO manage virtual machines or vCenter Server purchase separately. THEFT vSphere Standard Edition sells for $ 3,000 to Advanced Edition sells for $ 4.500; volume discounts are available through retailers favorites. The service and support contracts are available for ROBO deployments as well.

It is also worth noting that while a website can use a maximum of 25 licenses per package VM, VM unnecessary or excessive licenses can be distributed in more than one site. For example, VM 10 licenses could be used in a place six VM licenses could be used in a second site and nine licenses VM could be used in a third site.

Remember, you can not mix issues include theft or other licenses vSphere product in the same place. This means that you can not run vSphere vSphere Standard Standard ROBO in the same place.

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