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98-365 · Question #457

You work as a system administrator for a medium-sized company. You receive a call in the middle of the night that people cannot access their mails. Your mail servers name is mymail01. You log into…

The correct answer is D. Your mail server was in the middle of a backup and the snapshot used up the rest of the. Virtual machines will become unstable and crash if the LUN is filled. This is typical behavior that you must be aware of when using thin provisioning. Answer: A is incorrect. Although this will be catastrophic and cause the system to stop working, you will have a red X next to…

Understanding Server Maintenance

Question

You work as a system administrator for a medium-sized company. You receive a call in the middle of the night that people cannot access their mails. Your mail servers name is mymail01. You log into the VMware service console to see the status of the server and you see a little exclamation point over the virtual machines name. You click edit settings and click on the hard disk to find out that your mail server is running off of mymail01-000001.vmdk. What is the most likely conclusion of why your server went down and is not powering on?

Options

  • AYour mail server's .vmdk file that stores system files has been deleted.
  • BYour mail server was being updated and received a bad patch.
  • CYour mail server did not properly release the snapshot and became unstable.
  • DYour mail server was in the middle of a backup and the snapshot used up the rest of the

How the community answered

(29 responses)
  • A
    7% (2)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    7% (2)
  • D
    83% (24)

Explanation

Virtual machines will become unstable and crash if the LUN is filled. This is typical behavior that you must be aware of when using thin provisioning. Answer: A is incorrect. Although this will be catastrophic and cause the system to stop working, you will have a red X next to your virtual machines name. Answer: B is incorrect. The symptoms described in the scenario do not fit for bad patching. Answer: C is incorrect. Although you have not released the snapshot, it is not the exact reason why your virtual machine is not starting.

Topics

#Virtual machines#VMware snapshots#Server troubleshooting#Storage issues

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