An architect is designing a new vSphere platform for a customer to meet the following requirements:
✑ The platform must be deployed into five physically separate sites.
✑ The sites are spread across multiple regions.
✑ Some sites require more than one vCenter Server.
✑ The platform must provide an administrator with the ability to access virtual infrastructure components across all sites from a single management tool instance.
Which single sign-on (SSO) design recommendation will meet these requirements?

A. Use an SSO domain across all vCenter Server instances

B. Use an SSO domain per region

C. Use an SSO domain per vCenter Server instance

D. Use an SSO domain per site

An architect is considering placement of virtual machines within an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC).
During the discovery phase, the following information is documented:
Cluster One -
✑ Six ESXi hosts
✑ vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
✑ Proactive HA is enabled and set to automated
✑ Fully Automated vSphere DRS
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is enabled
Cluster Two -
✑ Eight ESXi hosts
✑ vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
✑ Proactive HA is disabled
✑ Partially Automated vSphere DRS
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Cluster Three -
✑ Three ESXi hosts
✑ vSphere HA with admission control is disabled
✑ Proactive HA is not supported
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1
✑ Memory sharing techniques should not be used
✑ Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure if resources are available
✑ Automated initial virtual machine placement
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2
✑ Memory sharing techniques should not be used
✑ Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure regardless of available resources
✑ Automated initial virtual machine placement
Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements? (Choose two.)

A. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster One.

B. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1 should be placed on Cluster One.

C. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster Two.

D. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1 should be placed on Cluster Two.

E. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster Three.

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following information:
✑ Each host has 2 ֳ— 10 GbE NIC
✑ EtherChannel is not currently configured
✑ No changes can be made to the physical network
✑ Network throughput must be prioritized for defined critical services
Which two recommendations should the architect make with regard to virtual networking? (Choose two.)

A. Use Route Based on Physical NIC Load.

B. Use Network I/O Control with Shares.

C. Use Network I/O Control with Reservation.

D. Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

E. Use Network I/O Control with Limits.

An architect is designing a new VMware solution for a customer that has a number of different resource profiles.
The following are the business requirements for the design:
✑ The solution must support virtual machines with the following storage profiles:
- Write-intensive
- Backup
- Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) archive
✑ The solution must support migration of virtual machine disks between storage profiles.
✑ The WORM archive data must be located at an isolated secure site.
✑ The backup storage array must only be connected to a backup media server.
✑ All data should be recoverable from backup.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the business requirements?

A. The solution will leverage a single storage array for the WORM archive and write-intensive storage profiles

B. The solution will leverage the same array for the backup and write-intensive storage profiles

C. The solution will leverage a different array for each storage profile

D. The solution will leverage a single storage array for all storage profiles

An architect is designing a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution based on the following customer requirements:
✑ The solution must initially support 1,000 virtual machines
✑ The solution must scale to support the concurrent running of up to 5,000 virtual machines
✑ The production environment should be delivered across two data centers
✑ The solution should have a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of four hours
✑ The solution should have a monthly service availability target of 99.8%
Which two assumptions could the architect make based on the information from the customer to help size the solution? (Choose two.)

A. The number of vSphere hosts in a cluster

B. The average resource utilization of a virtual machine

C. The size (CPU/RAM/storage) of the average virtual machine

D. The guest operating system for each virtual machine

E. The size (CPU/RAM/storage) of the vSphere hosts

The architect for a large enterprise is tasked with reviewing a proposed design created by a service partner.
Which design elements are expected to be detailed within the physical design section of the documentation?

A. A design diagram illustrating the configuration and specific attributes, such as IP addresses

B. A list of requirements, constraints, and risks

C. A solution architecture diagram with the components and data flow

D. An entity relationship diagram describing upstream and downstream dependencies for specific service components

An architect is finalizing the design for a new vCenter Server High Availability deployment.
What is one thing the architect must document in the design?

A. The load balancing algorithm used by the Management Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS)

B. The SSH configuration settings for the vCenter Server’s active node

C. The vCenter Management Network IPv4 addresses for the witness node vCenter Server

D. The details of each of the vCenter Server licenses for active, passive and witness nodes

An architect is reviewing a physical storage design. The customer has specified that storage DRS will be used for ease of operational management for capacity and performance.
Which recommendation should the architect include in the design?

A. Create smaller datastores to balance space with Storage DRS

B. Use a larger number of storage profiles (varied disk speeds and RAID levels) to improve performance

C. Create larger datastores to balance space with Storage DRS

D. Create more datastores within each Storage DRS cluster to balance space and performance

A customer provides the following list of requirements for their vSphere platform:
✑ REQ01 The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure.
✑ REQ02 The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days.
✑ REQ03 All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes.
✑ REQ04 The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts.
✑ REQ05 The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines.
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

A. The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure

B. The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts

C. The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines

D. All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes

E. The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days

Application owners require support of a Microsoft Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC).
Their current environment consists of the following components:
✑ vSphere 7.0 and vSAN 7.0
✑ External array supporting NFS 3.0/4.1, Server Message Block (SMB) 2.1
✑ 10 GbE storage connectivity for all devices
The solution architect is tasked with coming up with a solution to meet this requirement while utilizing their existing investments.
Which two recommendations could the architect make? (Choose two.)

A. Use vSAN native support for WSFC

B. Use NFS 4.1 shares for quorum and shared disk

C. Use raw device mapping (RDM)

D. Use the SMB 2.1 protocol for sharing disks

E. Run WSFC on vSAN iSCSI Target Service

An architect is tasked with designing a greenfield VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that will be used to deliver a private cloud service for a customer.
During the initial meeting with the service owner and business sponsor, the customer has provided the following information to help inform the design:
✑ The solution must initially support the concurrent running of 300 production and 600 development virtual machines.
✑ The production environment should be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers.
✑ The development environment must be vSphere-based but does not have to be deployed on-premises.
✑ The two data centers are connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links.
✑ The customer's server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be based on blade architecture only.
✑ The service owner has said that is important to ensure that neither the availability target of 99.5% nor the resource capacity is affected when the operations team completes maintenance activities, such as the monthly software patching and ad-hoc hardware break/fix.
✑ All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service.
✑ The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is four hours.
✑ The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is 24 hours.
Given the information from the customer, which two would be classified as assumptions within the design? (Choose two.)

A. The backup service will store data in a secure facility

B. The backup service has sufficient capacity for the new requirements

C. The customer will update their hardware standard to support rack mount servers

D. All virtual machines will be deployed with the same resource profile for production and development

E. The clusters will have a minimum redundancy of N+1

An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
✑ The environment must support 5,000 virtual machines.
✑ The environment will be built initially using 350 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

A. Large

B. Small

C. Tiny

D. Medium

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement:
A new vSphere platform must be designed securely and all interfaces must be protected against potential snooping.
 
How should this non-functional security requirement be documented?

A. Interfaces must be audited.

B. Encrypted channels must be used for all communications.

C. Unauthorized access to interfaces must be reported within 15 minutes.

D. Communications must be through Private VLANs (PVLAN).

An architect is preparing a design for a customer. Based on requirements, the architect recommends an HCI-based infrastructure with all-flash architecture. During the assessment, it is confirmed that the network throughput generated by virtual machines does not exceed 150 Mb/s.
What is the minimum number and type of network adapters in each server that the architect can recommend to ensure requirements are met and there is no single point of failure?

A. Two 1 GbE network adapters per server

B. Four 1 GbE network adapters per server

C. Four 10 GbE network adapters per server

D. Two 10 GbE network adapters per server

An organization's existing vSphere environments are configured for Enhanced Linked Mode. The DevOps team automates the creation of hardened virtual machine images for various operating systems. Their continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline runs a task at the end of a successful build, which uploads the Open Virtualization Format (OV) image to a sandbox content library, deploys a virtual machine from the image, and then destroys these objects after quality checks are complete.
The following requirements have been noted:
✑ All content libraries and images must be centrally created and managed.
✑ All images must be capable of being updated.
✑ All images must be refreshed and available to subscribed libraries within 24 hours.
✑ All images must provide details of the image contents and versions.
✑ All images must be capable of being reverted to a previous version.
✑ All images must be capable of having the hardware and guest operating system customized during deployment.
Which three recommendations should the architect make to design a content library solution that will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

A. Create a local content library in the primary vSphere environment and enable publishing.

B. Create and publish a new subscription to a new subscriber library for each target vSphere environment.

C. Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as an OVF template to a local content library.

D. Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as a VM template to a local content library.

E. Edit the Auto Sync Refresh Interval advanced setting for each subscribed library.

F. Add a new subscriber library from each vSphere environment.

In a meeting to discuss the minimum viable product (MVP) deployment of a new customer-facing application, the key stakeholder shares details of the application components and the application administrators share details of performance and integrity tests for the application.
The application will be made up of the following components:
A web server -
 
- Steps to confirm the web server is operating correctly will take 15 minutes after the application server is online.
✑ An application server
- Steps to confirm application server integrity will take 15 minutes after the database is online.
✑ A database server
- The database server will be managed by a database administrator, with an agreed service-level agreement (SLA) to restore and validate database services within one hour.
The existing VMware infrastructure offers a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes and recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes through a combination of backups and replication.
In the event of an outage impacting all three application components, how long will it take for the application to recover and complete all checks?

A. 15 minutes

B. 60 minutes

C. 105 minutes

D. 90 minutes

An architect is designing a series of new vSphere environments for an organization. The environments will be deployed in their US-East and US-West region data centers. Each data center may have one or more dedicated vSphere environments. Only the vSphere environments within a data center will be configured with
Enhanced Linked Mode. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has authorized the use of VMware vRealize Automation Cloud for automation. The build team creates standardized virtual machine images for various operating systems in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and publishes the latest version on an as-needed basis to an internal HTTPS-accessible repository.
The architect must design a content library topology that meets the following requirements:
✑ A localized content library must be available in each data center.
Each content library must be updated when an image is updated and released by the build team.
 
✑ The cloud automation platform must be able to consume the latest approved content library images.
✑ It must leverage the existing build team processes.
What should the architect recommend to meet the requirements?

A. Work with the build team to create a local content library for each vSphere environment. Import the OVF images when new image are published to the repository.

B. Create a local content library for the primary vSphere environment in each data center. Create a subscribed content library for each additional vSphere environment in each data center. Configure the content library to download content automatically.

C. Work with the build team to automate a JSON-based manifest to the repository when changes occur in the repository. Create a subscribed content library for each vSphere environment. Configure the content library to download content when needed.

D. Work with the build team to automate a JSON-based manifest to the repository when changes occur in the repository. Create a subscribed content library for each vSphere environment. Configure the content library to download content automatically.

A customer requires the use of data encryption to ensure data is not accessible when a drive is removed from the primary storage platform. However, there is also a requirement to use deduplication and compression against all workloads in order to conserve space.
Which solution meets the customer requirements?

A. Data-in-transit encryption

B. OS-level encryption

C. Encrypted backups

D. Array-based encryption

An architect is designing a new VMware software-designed data center (SDDC) using vSphere 7 to meet the following requirements:
✑ The SDDC must be deployed at two locations: primary and secondary.
✑ vSphere Replication must be used to replicate virtual machines between the two locations.
✑ Site Recovery Manager must be used to orchestrate disaster recovery (DR) activities.
✑ One single-sign on (SSO) domain must be used to authenticate access at both locations.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?

A. A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to each site. Unique SSO domains will be created per site.

B. A vCenter Server will be installed on Windows virtual machines deployed to both sites.

C. A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to each site.

D. A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to the primary site only.

A Cloud Service Provider wants to introduce backup as a service for a customer's vSphere-based virtual machines.
The following information is noted:
✑ They have a single four-port (2 ֳ— 10 GbE and 2 ֳ— 1 GbE) NIC per ESXi host
✑ All top-of-rack (ToR) switches are 10 GbE and fully populated
✑ The backup traffic must not impact existing services
Which two recommendations should the architect make to help the customer incorporate the service? (Choose two.)

A. Enable and tag traffic on the backup distributed port group

B. Add a new two-port 10 GbE NIC per ESXi host

C. Replace the existing NIC with a two-port 25 GbE NIC per ESXi host

D. Match the Class of Service (CoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) values to the physical network

E. Create a new virtual switch using the 1 GbE uplinks

Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the design documentation?

A. The system must perform virtual machine backups through an API.

B. Virtual machines must be patched within one month of the patch release date.

C. Virtual machines must be restarted within 30 minutes of a host failure.

D. The system must be able to scale to support 500 concurrent virtual machines.

What is a benefit of using a scale-out method for handling vSphere cluster growth?

A. An increase in the recovery time objective (RTO) for the cluster

B. Faster to reach the limit of virtual machines per host

C. An overall reduction in the license costs for the cluster

D. Less potential impact to virtual machines during a single host failure

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for an organization is concerned about the security posture of the operating system images that are used for the provisioning of their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The organization is in a growth period. The organization is opening a new data center to launch its next phase of new SaaS-based solutions.
The DevOps team currently creates encrypted virtual machine (VM) templates that are used for various operating systems and adds these to the vSphere inventory. The DevOps team already uses a published content library and has been granted a role with the ability to add and delete library items.
The following requirements have been noted:
✑ Impacts to the DevOps team's operational processes must be kept to a minimum.
✑ The DevOps team must be able to regularly check out a copy of the image for updates and check in a new version of the image.
✑ Images must be synchronized from the primary data center to the new data center.
Which three recommendations should the architect make to design a content library solution that will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

A. Clone virtual machines as VM templates to the published content library

B. Create a subscribed library from the published library and synchronize Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates on-demand

C. Create a subscription and publish VM templates to a subscribed content library

D. Create a subscribed library from the published library and synchronize Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates automatically

E. Clone virtual machines as Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates to the published content library

F. Update the role for the DevOps team with new privileges

An architect is designing a new greenfield environment with 600 ESXi hosts in an automated fashion. The engineering department already has a PXE Boot server,
TFTP server, and DHCP server set up with an NFS mount for their current Linux servers.
The architect must be able to demonstrate and meet a security requirement to have all infrastructure processes separated.
Which recommendation should the architect make for the ESXi host deployment?

A. Request an isolated network segment to use and dedicate it to Auto Deploy functions

B. Ask the business to expand the engineering environment to service the virtual environment as well

C. Request a common shared network with flexible security measures to accommodate different auto deployment options

D. Deploy each ESXi host individually and document it to satisfy security requirements

Refer to the exhibit.
During a requirements gathering workshop, a customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):
 
The customer states that there is no application level availability for legacy applications.
Which recommendation could the architect make to meet the customer's high availability requirements for the legacy applications virtual machines?

A. Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Disabled

B. Enable Fault Tolerance

C. Achieve application availability with snapshots

D. Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Lowest

Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a recoverability non-functional requirement?

A. The platform must be integrated with existing change control policies.

B. The platform must be able to support a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of 30 minutes.

C. Maintenance windows must be scheduled to take place monthly during an established overnight period.

D. The platform must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the exception of scheduled downtime.

An architect decides to separate virtual desktops and application servers into separate vSphere clusters to meet security and management requirements.
What are two implications of this design decision? (Choose two.)

A. There will be an increase in management overhead.

B. Identical hardware must be procured for all hosts.

C. There will be a reduction in performance.

D. The patching cycles will affect both clusters at the same time.

E. There will be additional licensing and cost requirements for both clusters.

Refer to the exhibit.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the architect shares the following diagram:
 
What should the architect recommend for guaranteed throughput for each service?

A. Use explicit failover order with pNIC0 as Active for ESXi Management and VM Network Use explicit failover order with pNIC1 as Active for backup network Use explicit failover order with pNIC2 as Active for vMotion Use explicit failover order with pNIC3 as Active for replication

B. Use the Route Based on IP Hash for ESXi management and VM network Use the Route Based on IP Hash for backup network Use the Route Based on the Originating Virtual Port for vMotion Use failover with pNIC3 as Active for replication

C. Create a link aggregation group (LAG) for vDS_01 Use the Route Based on Physical NIC Load for vMotion Use the Route Based on Physical NIC Load for replication

D. Use the Route Based on IP Hash for ESXi management and VM network Use failover with pNIC1 as Active for backup network Create a link aggregation group (LAG) for vDS_02

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer based on the following information:
✑ The vSphere cluster will have three hosts only due to budget considerations.
✑ A database cluster (node majority) consisting of three virtual machines will be running on the vSphere cluster.
Which two recommendations can the architect make so that the customer achieves the highest level of application availability while taking into consideration operational resiliency? (Choose two.)

A. Create VM-VM anti-affinity rules

B. Set das.respectvmvmantiaffinityrules to false

C. Create VM-Host anti-affinity rules

D. Disable vSphere HA during maintenance

E. Set das.ignoreinsufficienthbdatastore to true

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer's Chief Information Security Office (CISO) provides the following requirements that are pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:
✑ All operating system critical patches must be installed within 24 hours of release.
✑ All virtual machine templates must be updated every three months in line with company policy.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

A. Security

B. Manageability

C. Recoverability

D. Availability

Which two statements are true about gathering functional business and application requirements? (Choose two.)

A. It focuses on functional requirements with C-level stakeholders

B. It leverages a single set of questions for all stakeholders

C. It might require multiple rounds of stakeholder interviews

D. It builds stakeholder consensus

E. It is a non-iterative process

An architect is creating a network design for a new vSphere environment.
Based on customer requirements, the environment must support the following types of traffic:
✑ Management
✑ vMotion
✑ vSAN
✑ Fault Tolerance
✑ Virtual machine traffic, which cannot be impacted by other types of traffic
Which design recommendation can the architect make for a resilient infrastructure with vSphere network service tiering?

A. Use different logical networks to ensure traffic is isolated with separate VLANs

B. Use Network I/O Control and ensure appropriate share value is defined for different types of traffic giving priority to the virtual machines traffic

C. Use two dedicated virtual switches with a single adapter each, dedicating one virtual switch for Management, vMotion, vSAN and Fault Tolerance traffic, and the second one for virtual machine traffic

D. Use a NIC teaming policy based on the physical NIC load

An architect is designing a new vSphere platform to meet a list of requirements from the security team.
Which two requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Migration of virtual machines between hosts must be encrypted

B. Log information must be verbose to support incident resolution

C. Critical events generated within the platform must be logged to an external Syslog service

D. Data integrity must be ensured

E. A common content library must be maintained across all data centers

An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
✑ The environment must support 800 virtual machines.
✑ The environment will be built initially using 200 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

A. Large

B. Small

C. X-Large

D. Medium

An architect is designing a solution for an environment with two types of resource profiles that must be virtualized. The first type consists of Tier 1 virtual machines that are disk I/O intensive, but do NOT require high CPU or memory. The second type consists of Tier 2 virtual machines that require a lower CPU and memory allocation and have minimal disk I/O.
Which design recommendation should the architect make for distributing the resource profiles?

A. Separate the two resource profiles into two clusters. The Tier 1 cluster will have fast storage while the Tier 2 cluster will not.

B. Run both resource profiles on the same cluster with the same host hardware platform.

C. Separate the two resource profiles into two clusters. The Tier 2 cluster will have faster CPU and more memory while the Tier 1 cluster will have slower CPU and less memory but more disk space.

D. Run both resource profiles on the same cluster with host hardware that has fast CPU, large amounts of memory, and the fastest storage platform.

An architect will be taking over control of a former Linux server fleet and repurposing the hardware into a new vSphere cluster. The current environment is already connected to the network but the hosts do not have any local disks. Since the fleet hardware is uniform, the architect can use a single ESXi image. All hosts within the cluster have the same CPU and memory capacity.
Which ESXi deployment method should the architect use?

A. Stateless cached vSphere Auto Deploy

B. Stateless vSphere Auto Deploy

C. Manual install of each ESXi host with an image from USB

D. Stateful vSphere Auto Deploy

A customer has a database cluster with 40/60 read/write ratio and a high IOPs requirement with no contention on an all-flash vSAN cluster.
Which two storage settings should be configured for best performance? (Choose two.)

A. IOPs limits enabled

B. RAID 1

C. Deduplication and Compression disabled

D. RAID 5/6

E. Deduplication and Compression enabled

An architect has 50 ESXi hosts to deploy and DHCP servers are not allowed on any network.
Which automated host deployment method should the architect use?

A. Stateless vSphere Auto Deploy

B. Stateful vSphere Auto Deploy

C. Scripted installation

D. Interactive installation

During a requirements gathering workshop to design a physical to virtual migration, the customer provides the following information:
✑ There is no physical firewall in the data center with no anticipated plans for a future network refresh.
✑ Leveraging the virtual infrastructure to mitigate the lack of network security must be addressed in the design.
✑ All physical servers to be migrated exist on the same VLAN.
Which recommendation should the architect make to address the customer requirement with regard to virtual networking?
A.
✑ Split the virtual machines into several VLANs
✑ Use tag actions
B.
✑ Create port groups with different names and same VLAN IDs
✑ Enable traffic shaping for ingress and egress traffic
C.
✑ Enable traffic filtering and marking
✑ Use allow or drop actions
D.
Disable traffic filtering and marking
 
✑ Use tag actions

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement (REQ) and constraints (CON):
✑ REQ01: The customer is looking for a way to limit database virtual machine (VM) placement to save on CPU licensing costs.
✑ CON01: There is a single cluster with no budget to scale.
✑ CON02: All virtual machines must run on the consolidated cluster.
Which two design decisions should the architect make to meet the customer requirement? (Choose two.)

A. The solution must use VM-VM anti-affinity rules

B. The solution must use vSphere DRS in manual mode

C. The solution must use a vRealize Orchestrator workflow for VM placement

D. The solution must use VM-Host affinity rules

E. The solution must use vSphere VM and host DRS groups

An architect is designing a solution based on the following information:
✑ Each ESXi host has a single physical NIC with two 10 Gbps ports.
✑ There is a performance-based service-level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 15 Gbps bandwidth for production virtual machines at all times.
✑ There is no budget to purchase additional hardware.
✑ The hardware replacement SLA is based on a delivery agreement of two business days.
Which recommendation for the configuration of vSphere High Availability (HA) should the architect include in the design?

A. Configure vSphere HA Configure % based admission control Configure two isolation addresses Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

B. Configure vSphere HA Set das.IgnoreRedundantNetWarning to true Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

C. Configure vSphere HA Configure two existing data stores for heartbeat Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

D. Configure Proactive HA Automation Level: Automated Remediation: Maintenance mode for all failures Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

An architect is designing a new vSphere cluster. The requirement is to provide a total of 96 CPU cores and 1.5 TB RAM across all hosts.
The following information has been provided:
✑ Two different physical hardware profiles are available for the ESXi hosts in the cluster.
- Profile 1: 16 CPU cores and 256 GB RAM
- Profile 2: 32 CPU cores and 512 GB RAM
✑ Profile 2 is twice as expensive to purchase as Profile 1.
Which two aspects should the architect consider when selecting the hardware profile? (Choose two.)

A. The manufacturer and model of the CPUs in the hosts

B. The amount of capacity available for failover of virtual machines within the cluster

C. The downtime allowed for virtual machines that will be running within the cluster

D. The cost to procure and maintain the hardware

E. The number of virtual machines that will be running within the cluster

A customer defines a requirement to minimize the vMotion migration time during a maintenance period. The servers being used are equipped with eight 1 GbE network adapters.
Per the defined logical network configuration, there are two network adapters each used for:
✑ Management traffic
✑ vMotion traffic
✑ iSCSI traffic
✑ Virtual machine traffic
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the customer requirement?

A. Use Network I/O Control to define a reservation for vMotion traffic.

B. Implement Multi-NIC vMotion by adding additional vMotion VMkernels.

C. Configure a dedicated TCP/IP stack for vMotion traffic.

D. Combine vMotion and Management traffic to make use of four adapters.

An architect is tasked with expanding an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution so that it can be used to deliver a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service off-shore development activities.
The production environment is currently delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers. The two data centers are currently connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links. The current operations management components are deployed to a dedicated management cluster that is configured with N+1 redundancy. The current VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) has a monthly availability target of 99.5%, which includes all management components.
The customer requires that the new solution scale to support the concurrent running of 500 persistent virtual desktops. The virtual desktops must not share the same virtual infrastructure as existing virtual machines, but can be managed using the same VMware operations management components. Any new VDI service management components must be installed into the management cluster. There is no requirement to back up the virtual desktops because all relevant user data is stored centrally. The VDI service is providing business critical services and must have an availability target of 99.9%.
Given the information from the customer, which two assumptions would the architect include in the design? (Choose two.)

A. The existing virtual infrastructure has sufficient capacity to host the new VDI workloads

B. The existing operations monitoring tools have sufficient capacity to monitor the new VDI services

C. The existing management cluster has enough available capacity to host any VDI service management component

D. The management cluster has N+1 redundancy

E. The VDI service has a higher service-level agreement (SLA) than the operations management SLA

There is a request for approved virtual machine applications through a new vSphere platform's integrated automation portal. The platform was built following all provided company security guidelines and has been assessed against Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) regulations.
The platform has the following characteristics:
✑ vRealize Operations is being used to monitor all clusters.
✑ There is a dedicated ESXi cluster, supporting all management services.
- All network traffic is via distributed virtual switches (DVS).
✑ There is a dedicated ESXi cluster for all line-of-business applications.
- Network traffic is serviced by NSX-T.
✑ There is a dedicated ESXi cluster for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
- Network traffic is serviced by NSX-T.
The application owner is requesting approval to install a new service that must be protected as per the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
Which additional non-functional requirement should the architect include in the design to support the new service?

A. The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be assessed against Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard compliance.

B. The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be assessed for SOX compliance.

C. The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machine network traffic must be routed via NSX-T.

D. The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be monitored using the vRealize Operations Compliance Pack for Payment Card Industry.

An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer based on the following information:
✑ The solution must use investments in existing storage array that supports both block and file storage.
✑ The solution must support the ability to migrate workloads between hosts within a cluster.
✑ The solution must support resource management priorities.
✑ The solution must support the ability to connect virtual machines directly to LUNs.
✑ The solution should use existing IPv4 based network infrastructure.
✑ There is no budget for additional physical hardware.
Which two design decisions could the architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel (FC)

B. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS 3

C. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

D. The ESXi hosts will leverage iSCSI

E. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS 4.1

A VMware Service Provider is tasked with delivering a solution for continuous availability for a subset of Tier 1 virtual machines (VMs) and vApps running in their vSAN environment. The VMs make up a mission-critical application and there can be no data loss in the event of an outage at their primary data center. In the event of a regional outage, they have established a 10-minute recovery point objective (RPO). Failover/failback to the third site must be automated.
They have the following in place:
✑ Two local data centers (primary and secondary) connected with 100 Gb dedicated fiber
- 2ms round-trip time (RTT) latency between the sites
✑ A third data center located on another power grid
- 70ms latency between the primary and secondary data centers
✑ Matching storage arrays at all locations
Which two solutions could be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Site Recovery Manager

B. Snapshots

C. vSAN Metro Cluster

D. vSphere Data Protection

E. vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center. The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company's virtual machines.
Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.
How should the architect merge the company's assets and virtual machines?

A. Leave the newly acquired company’s assets in its current place

B. Lift and shift the acquired assets into the data center

C. Migrate the acquired company’s virtual machines into the existing vSphere environment

D. Migrate and apply vSphere tags to the acquired company’s virtual machines

An architect is designing an environment for a retail customer. The design will use a single small vCenter Server Appliance and a cluster of eight ESXi hosts at a remote site. There is a single 10 GbE connected network at the remote site to support all management services. It is not possible to create additional management networks at the remote site. Virtual machine backups at the site will be dependent on the vCenter Server being available.
Which design decision should the architect make to maximize availability for backups?

A. vCenter Server High Availability will be configured.

B. The vCenter Server Appliance will be protected with vSphere Fault Tolerance.

C. The cluster will be configured to use vSphere DRS in fully automated mode.

D. The cluster will be configured with vSphere HA and set to restart virtual machines based on guest operating system heartbeat monitoring.

An architect is designing a new vSphere environment with the following resources:
✑ 600 vCPU
✑ 5,760 GB RAM
Average resource usage is:
✑ 60 vCPU
✑ 1,152 GB RAM
The design must meet the following requirements:
✑ The environment has the ability to burst by 25%.
✑ Each host can schedule 36 vCPUs and has 512 GB RAM.
✑ Management overhead is 20%.
What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the design requirements?

A. Three

B. Five

C. Four

D. Two