Practice - Gray-box Approach to Resource Management
Practice Questions
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What is the gray-box approach?
💡 Hint: Think about the balance of visibility in resource management.
Define a hotspot in a virtualized environment.
💡 Hint: What happens to the performance when demand is too high?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary advantage of the gray-box approach in resource management?
💡 Hint: Think about how this approach differentiates from others.
True or False: A hotspot is caused solely by one virtual machine using too many resources.
💡 Hint: Reflect on the aggregate concept of resource utilization.
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Challenge Problems
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A data center experiences frequent outages but the management team can't determine the cause. Using the gray-box approach, outline a strategy to identify why these hotspots occur, detailing your steps for data collection and analysis.
💡 Hint: Consider metrics that would identify specific VM usage patterns.
During a load testing scenario, a virtual environment shows varied performance on different hosts. How could a gray-box approach assist in optimizing performance? Write a detailed plan.
💡 Hint: Think about how balancing resource loads can improve overall performance.
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