VMware, Hammered by Dell-EMC Acquisition, Slashes 800 Jobs

At present, its fourth quarter results on Tuesday, VMware announced that raze 800 positions, reduce the guidelines for next year and replace its CFO. The latest series of problems for the vendor EMC Corp. software-controlled data center is further proof that the proposed acquisition by Dell Inc. EMC largest ever heavy bristles $ 67 trillion-the technology sector jewel crown reputation federation EMC. VMware shares fell more than 40% since the...

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VCP550D Sample Question: 15

Question: 15 The following error displays during the final step of the configuration for a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster attached to five datastores: The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 0, which is less than requireD. 2 What condition would cause this error? A. One of the hosts in the cluster is not attached to the datastores planned for use with HA. B. The hosts in the cluster do not have Storage DRS configured on one or more of their datastores C. One of the hosts in the cluster has an invalid Storage Policy configured on...

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VCP550D Sample Question: 14

Question: 14 A virtual machine fails to migrate during a Storage DRS event. What could cause this issue? A. Storage DRS is enabled for the datastore cluster but disabled for the virtual disks. B. Storage DRS is enabled, but vMotion is disabled for the affected virtual machine. C. The vMotion network used for Storage DRS is down for a host in the cluster. D. Storage DRS is attempting to migrate the virtual machine between VMFS and NFS datastores. Answer:...

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VCP550D Sample Question : 13

QUESTION NO: 13Which two Identity Sources are available to add for vCenter Single Sign-On authentication? (Choose two.)A. LocalOSB. OpenLDAPC. NIS as an LDAP ServerD. VCMSDSAnswer: A...

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VMware CEO: Half of Top-100 Tech Firms May Vanish

Benefits of incumbency are declining and it is no longer the big beating the small, but the fast beating the slow.Some 25,000 attendees descended on San Francisco for one of the largest enterprise infrastructure events of the year, VMworld 2015. After two days of company presentations, management meetings and stalking the exhibition hall, we came away encouraged by the fact that: 1) the activities according to the company is recovering from...

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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...

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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)...

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