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| What settings are found under Virtual Machine Options? |
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Definition
| General options, vApp Options, VMware Tools, Power management |
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| What settings are found under Advanced Virtual Machine Options? |
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| General, CPUID Mask, Memory/CPU Hotplug, Boot Options, Fibre Channel NPIV, CPU/MMU Virtualization, Swapfile Location, SDRS Rules |
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| Describe the General Options under 'Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
* Modify VM Name
* Check vmx location as well as working location
* Change Guest OS type (must be powered off) |
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| Describe the vApp Options under 'Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
* Enable or disable vApp functionality - IP Allocation policies, etc.
* Product information
* Properties
* OVF settings specific to the vApp |
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| Describe the VMware Tools Options under 'Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
*Manage power controls for the VM - VM must be powered off: stop (Power off, shutdown guest (default); Pause - suspend; Start (Power on/resume); Restart - reset, restart guest (default)
* run VMware Tools scripts - VM must be powered off
* Automatic updates, synchronize time with host |
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| Describe the Power Management options under 'Virtual Machine Options' |
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| * How should the VM respond when OS is placed in standby.. Options are to suspend the VM or put the guest OS into standby and leave the VM powered on |
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| Describe the General options under 'Advanced Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
*Disable Acceleration - used to allow a VM to successfully run or install software. Used if you see an issue which causes the VM to stop responding early in the execution of a program. This setting slows down the VM.
* Enable/Disable Logging
*Debug Stats: Run normal (default - collects bug info; Record debugging Information - collects debug and performance info. use to aid in TS when guest OS is crashing frequently; Record statistics)
*Some advanced config parameters |
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| Describe the CPUID Mask options under 'Advanced Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
| Used to expose or hide nx/xd flags from the VM in order to increase vMotion compatibility |
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| Describe the Boot options under 'Advanced Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
* Specify boot firmware (BIOS/EFI)
* Power on Boot delay
* Force into bios on next boot
* Failed Boot Recovery - automatically retries a reboot if it fails |
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| Describe the Fibre Channel NPIV options under 'Advanced Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
* Enable/Disable NPIV and assign and generate new WWNs for the VM
* Allows you to share a physical hba port amongst multiple virtual ports in efforts to give the VM access to LUNs on a per VM basis
* Each virtual port is assigned a WWPN and a WWNN
* NPIV needs to be enabled on a SAN switch and supported only for VMs with RDMs
* Each VM can only have 4 NPIV WWNs |
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| Describe the CPU/MMU Virtualization options under 'Advanced Virtual Machine Options' |
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| Allows you to override the hardware page table settings |
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| Describe the Swap file location options under 'Advanced Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
*Store with the VM
*Store with the hosts swap file datastore |
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| Describe the SDRS Rules options under 'Advanced Virtual Machine Options' |
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Definition
| *Set affinity rules for virtual disks within a datastore cluster |
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