The process took one month. I have given four technical rounds and two managerial rounds.

Questions covered VMware, Linux, Networking, and Storage.

There were very few direct questions; most focused on your troubleshooting experience. The interviewers were great and would help if you were stuck somewhere.

VMotion process and steps, and how to troubleshoot if VMotion fails.

How HA works, what is Admission Control, what is DRS, and how many modes are there.

How to troubleshoot if packets are dropping from storage, switch, and host, and what are the reasons for packet drops.

esxtop command output and Linux top command output. What are DAVG, KAVG, UAVG? How to measure high CPU from esxtop and top output. What is ready time, CSTP, du -h, and du.

Difference between SSD and HDD. How to troubleshoot SSD and HDD issues.

What is VLAN and its benefits. VLAN trunking and tagging.

What are the networking policies in VMware? What are route-based, MAC address-based, and IP hash policies, along with security policies.

Subnetting and the grep command, run levels, and boot options in Linux.

Troubleshooting questions on Linux permissions.

Router, NATting, and switch concepts, with packet tracing.

Questions on CPU, Core, Socket, Threading, Hyperthreading, Hypervisors, and Virtualization.

Storage questions on Deduplication, Compression, SnapMirror, and Snapshots.

Storage protocol questions on FCIP, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, and FC.

Storage performance questions.