Albert Alex

VMware Admin Interview Questions

1. VMWare Kernel is a Proprietary Kenral and is not based on any of the UNIX operating systems,

 it's a kernel developed by VMWare Company. 

2. The VMKernel can't boot it by itself, so that it takes the help of the 3rd party operating system. 

In VMWare case the kernel is booted by RedHat Linux operating system which is known as service console. 

3. The service console is developed based up on Redhat Linux Operating system,

 it is used to manage the VMKernel  

4. To restart webaccess service on vmware

service vmware-webaccess restart – this will restart apache tomcat app 

5. To restart ssh service on vmware

service sshd restart 

6. To restart host agent(vmware-hostd) on vmware esx server

service mgmt-vmware restart 

7. Path for the struts-config.xml

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/ui/WEB-INF/