VMware Exam Questions

An ESX Host gains exclusive access to Virtual Machines created on NFS datastores using?

An ESX Host gains exclusive access to Virtual Machines created on NFS datastores using?

A.
Distributed File Locking

B.
NFS File Locking Protocol

C.
SCSI Reservations

D.
a special .lck-XXX lock file

Explanation:
ESX ESX Configuration Guide ESX 4.0 vCenter Server 4.0 When your host accesses a virtual machine disk file on an NFS-based datastore, a .lck-XXX lock file is generated in the same directory where the disk file resides to prevent other hosts from accessing this virtual disk file. Do not remove the .lck-XXX lock file, because without it, the running virtual machine cannot access its virtual disk file.