Virtual Machine and Hypervisor Management Questions

This topic covers management of virtual machines and the underlying hypervisor infrastructure. Topics include creating and configuring virtual machines with appropriate CPU memory and storage allocation, virtual networking and host networking considerations, host resource management and overcommit behavior, snapshot and checkpoint usage and limitations, live migration and high availability of virtual hosts, backup and restore strategies for virtual machines, performance troubleshooting and tuning, resource scheduling and placement, and capacity planning for virtualized clusters. Candidates should be able to compare hypervisor platforms and explain trade offs when selecting a virtualization approach versus alternative technologies.