VMware scenario based interview questions


  1. vMotion failed at 14%. What could be the possible reasons ?
  2. How to extend a logical volume in Windows 2003 hosted in VMware ?
  3. CentOS Network interface is not detecting after VMware clone ?
  4. SQL servers hosted in VMs are facing performance degradation. How to confirm whether it is a SQL related issue or VMware related issue ?
  5. Software iSCSI adapters are not visible. What could be the reason ?
  6. How to clone a VM without vCenter ?
  7. A VM failed to start after moving from another VMware platform ? What could be the reason ?
  8. VM appears as inaccessible in vCenter. What could be the reason ?
  9. How will we shrink the size of a vmdk file ?
  10. How will we reclaim the size of a thin provisioned vmdk file ?
  11. How to resize an IDE virtual disk in VMware ?
  12. How to remove iscsi targets from ESXi with 'Dead' or 'Error' status ? 
  13. The operation to resize a VM disk failed. What are the possible reasons ?
  14. Cannot create VMs with virtual machine version 9 in ESXi. What could be the reason ?
  15. How to take backup of ESXi configuration ?
  16. ESXi host shown as disconnected in vCenter. What are the possible reasons ?

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  1. Anonymous10 January 2015 at 21:48

    Thanks a Lot for Sharing the Information, It's an awesome Documents for clearing the interviews

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  2. Anonymous18 March 2015 at 14:41

    thanks

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  3. Anonymous9 July 2016 at 10:49

    Thank YOU

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  4. Kuriachan28 September 2017 at 00:05

    Great articles buddy...way to go!! Thank you for Sharing!

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  5. Unknown24 October 2017 at 22:20

    realy excellent !!

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  6. manas13 January 2019 at 23:38

    Thanks for sharing .It would be more helpful ,if you post some more latest ESXi version issues. Like ESXi 6.0 and above ,bcz in market 5.0 is no more. :)

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