I'm cross-training on vmware and I'm sure the following questions will come up and I want to be sure I'm answering accurately, can you verify?

Our environment is VI3 Enterprise, 2 esx hosts (3.5 - U4 ) and Vcenter 2.5 U4. (netapp NFS shared storage)

Q: How will we be notified if a VM has it's CPU pinned at 100%?

A: One must add an alarm at the virtual machine?

Q: Can we set an alarm at the host of cluster object to tell us if a VM has it's cpu at 100% or must we put the alarm on each and every VM?

A: We must set alarm at each and every VM

Q: If a network card fails on one host in our cluster what happens? The esx server has two nics, the failed nic has a VM port Group and VmKernal , the other has service console and Vm port group2, what happens?

A: Isolation occurs, the 2 esx servers can no longer receive a heartbeat from the Vmtools within the Vm's. The Esx server responsible for those Vm's can't V-motion because that port group is on the disabled nic which is obvious. The failing nic on the esx server that hosted those vm's is not going to bring them back up on it's other working Vswitch has the service sonsole. There is no network managment redundancy in place.

Thus the other esx server will then take control and bring them up, they will be a dirty boot of our windows 2003 servers.

HA and DRS work perfectly.