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35 Cards in this Set
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Hardware version introduced in vSphere 5.5 |
Version 10 |
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Number of SATA Controllers/Devices Supported in vSphere 5.5 |
4 controllers with 30 devices each, for a total of 120 devices |
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Graphic Enhancements in vSphere 5.5 (2) |
* Expanded vGPU Support
* Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests |
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SSO |
Single Sign on |
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Changes to SSO in vSphere 5.5 (3) |
* Single installation model now offered (Simple Install)
* Requirement for separate DB removed * Enhanced AD integration |
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VCSA |
vCenter Server Appliance |
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Changes to web client (5) |
* All new features require web client
* Drag and drop * Filters * Full client support for Mac OSx * Linux support removed (Due to Adobe dropping support for Flash on Linux) |
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What is App HA |
Works with HA & vFabric Hyperic Server to restart an application when issues are detected |
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Update to HA compatibility in vSphere 5.5 (1) |
Enhancement that helps HA honor VM-VM anti-affinity rules defined in DRS |
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What is BDE (What it stands for and what it does) |
Big Data Extensions - Allows deployment and management of Hadoop Clusters in vSphere Client |
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VMFS volume size supported in vSphere 5.5 |
64 TB |
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VDMK size supported in vSphere 5.5 |
62 TB |
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MSCS Updates in vSphere 5.5 (4) |
* Added support for iSCSI and FCoE
* Windows 2012 * Round Robin path policy support * MSCS now supported for protecting backend SQL vCenter Server DB |
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E2E FC Support added in vSphere 5.5 |
16 Gb E2E Support |
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What is APD? What vSphere enhancement helps prevent it? |
* All Paths Down - A condition where too many Permanent Device Loss (PDL) Events occur, exhausting the 256 devices allowed to each host
* PDL Autoremove |
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What is PDL? |
Permanent Device Loss - State caused by improper removal of a storage device from an ESXi host |
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PDL Autoremove |
Enhancement to prevent APD Event by automatically removing a device when it enters a PDL State |
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vSphere Replication enhancements in vSphere 5.5 (2) |
Improved to allow VMs at primary site to 1. be migrated with Storage vMotion and 2. participate in Storage DRS datastore clusters |
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What is MPIT (what it means and what it does) |
Multi-Point-in-Time - Allows for multiple recovery points |
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What is VAAI? |
vStorage APIs for Array Integration - Allows hypervisor to offload certain storage functions to a supported storage array |
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VAAI UNMAP improvements (3) |
* Optimized so now the reclaim size is specified as blocks rather than a percentage value
* Dead space now claimed in increments rather than all at once * Can now handle much larger dead spaces (now that 62 TB VMDKs are possible) |
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VMFS Heap Improvements in vSphere 5.5 (3) |
* Improved heap eviction process
* No need for large heap sizes * 256 MB Heap sizes allows ESXi hosts to access all address space in a 64 TB volume |
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What is vSphere Flash Read Cache |
Flash-based storage solution that pools multiple flash-based devices into a vSphere Flash Resource |
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LACP Enhancements in vSphere 5.5 (3) |
* 22 new hashing algorithms
* As many as 64 Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) now supported * New workflows that can be used to configure LACP across multiple hosts |
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Traffic Filtering Enhancements in vSphere 5.5 (3) |
* MAC Source and Destination Address qualifiers
* System Traffic Qualifiers - vMotion, FT, vSphere Management * IP Qualifiers - Protocol Type, IP SA, IP DA, and Port # |
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QOS Tagging enhancements in vSphere 5.5 (1) |
Support added for DSCP (Differentiated Service Code Point) marking |
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What kind of Hot-Pluggable device support added? |
PCIe SSD |
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Support for what kind of memory added? |
RMT (Reliable Memory Technology) |
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CPU Power states supported 5.5 vs 5.1 |
5.5: P-State (Performance) and C-states (Power) 5.1: P-States Only |
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What is SR-IOV |
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)- a specification that allows a single PCIe physical device under a single root port to appear to be multiple separate physical devices to the hypervisor or the guest operating system. |
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SR-IOV Enhancements in vSphere 5.5 (2) |
* Configuration for SR-IOV enabled NICs has been Simplified
* Introduced ability to propagate port group properties from the virtual switch to the virtual functions |
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NIC support introduced in vSphere 5.5
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40 Gb - Mellanox ConnectX-3 Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) |
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Packet Capture tool added in vSphere 5.5 |
Enhanced Host-Level Packet Capture (Equivalent of Linux tcpdump utility) |
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VDP improvements in vSphere 5.5 (5) |
* Replication of backup data to EMC Avamar
* Direct-to-host emergency restore * Backup and restore of individual VMDKs * Granular Scheduling of backup/replication jobs * Flexible VDP storage Management |
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Number of disk devices allowed to a host |
256 devices |
