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| What does the VIrtual Machine Hardware version dictate? |
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| The hardware devices and types/versions of hardware devices available to a VM |
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| Where can you check what hardware version is on your VM? |
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| In the summary tab there is a 'VM Version' field |
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| What capabilities does Virtual Hardware Version 8 provide? |
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| Compatible with ESXi 5.0 and later hosts. Latest VM features including 3D graphics and HD Audio, SmartCard Reader, USB 3, new driver for e1000. It can take up to 1TB of RAM and 32vCPUs |
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| What capabilities does Virtual Hardware Version 7 Provide? |
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| Compatibility with ESX/ESXi 4.x and above hosts. REcommended for sharing storage or VMs with ESX/ESXi versions 3.5 to 4.1. Introduced Changed Block Tracking (CBT), Hotplug, VMXNET 3, IDE Virtual Devices, SAS virtual devices. Has the ability for 255GB RAM and 8vCPUs. |
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| What capabilities does Virtual Hardware Version 4 have? |
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| Compatible with ESX/ESXi 3.0 and later hosts (ESXi 5.x can edit/configure, but not create these VMs). Recommended for VMs that need to run on ESX/ESXi 3.x hosts. Ability for 64GB of RAM (3.5 up from 16GB of RAM) and 4 vCPUs |
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| List 5 VMware Tools Device Drivers |
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| SVGA Driver, SCSI Driver, Paravirtual SCSI Driver, VMXNet NIC Drivers, Mouse Driver, Audio Driver, Kernel Module for Sharing Folder, ThinPrint Driver, Memory Control Driver, Modules and Drivers that support making automatic backups, VMCI and VMCI Sockets Drivers |
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| Describe the SVGA VMware Tools Driver |
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| This virtual driver enabled 32-bit display, high display resolution, and significantly faster graphics performance. When you install VMware Tools, a virtual SVGA driver replaces the default VGA driver, which allows for only 640 x 480 resolution and 16-bit colour |
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| When you create a virtual machine, if you specify that you want the virtual machine to use a BusLogic adapter, the guest operating system uses the SCSI driver that VMware Tools provides. An exception is made in recent guest OS's where they may default to LSI Logic SAS or another driver that is inbuilt that provides the best performance for that OS. |
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| Describe the Paravirtual SCSI Driver |
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| Paravirtual SCSI adapters enhance the performance of some virtualized applications. This VMware Tools driver supports those adapters. |
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| Describe the VMXNet NIC Drivers |
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| The vmxnet and vmxnet3 networking drivers improve network performance. Which driver is used depends on how you configure device settings for the virtual machine. When you install VMware Tools, a VMXNet NIC driver replaces the default driver |
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| Describe the Mouse Driver |
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| Improves mouse performance. This driver is required for some third party tools such as Terminal Services. |
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| Describe the Audio Driver |
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| Required for all 64-bit Windows OS's and 32-bit Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Vista guest operating systems if you use the virtual machine with VMware Server, Worstation or Fusion |
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| Describe the Kernel Module for Sharing Folder |
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| The host-guest file system module, called hgfs.sys on Windows guest operating systems and vmhgfs on Linux and Solaris, is required to use the VM with Workstation or Fusion and share folders between hosts and guests |
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| Describe the ThinPrint Driver |
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| This driver enables the virtual printing feature on Microsoft Windows virtual machines. With virtual printing, printers added to the operating system on the client or host appear in the list of available printers in teh guest operating system. No additional print drivers must be installed in the VM. |
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| Describe the Memory Control Driver |
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| The driver is available and recommended if you use VMware vSphere. Excluding this driver hinders the memory management capabilities of the Virtual Machine in a vSphere deployment |
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| What is the function of modules and drivers that support making automated backups? |
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| If the guest OS is Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or other newer Windows OS's , a Shadow Copy Services (VSS) module is installed. For other, older Windows OS's, the Filesystem Sync driver is installed. These modules enable backup applications to create application-consistent snapshots. During the snapshotting process, certain processes are paused and virtual machine disks are quiesced |
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| Describe the VMCI and VMCI Sockets Drivers |
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| The Virtual Machine Communication Interface driver allows fast and efficient communications between virtual machines. Developers can write client-server applications to teh VMCI Sock (vSock) interface to make use of the VMCI virtual device. |
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| Name two locations you can install/upgrade VMware tools |
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1. vSphere client - right click VM and select 'Guest' -> Install/Upgrade VMware Tools
2. Console menu of the VM |
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| T/F: Automatic installation of VMware tools will re-boot the VM |
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