3V0-21.23 VCAP-DCV: Design

Following a review of security requirements, an architect has confirmed the following requirements: REQ001- A clustered firewall solution must be placed at the perimeter of the hosting platform, and all ingress and egress network traffic will route via this device. REQ002- A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads. REQ003- All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system events must be monitored by security administrators. REQ004- The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be scalable to 20,000 events per second. REQ005- The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption. REQ006- The hosting platform limits access to authorized users. Which three requirements would be classified as technical (formerly non-functional) requirements? (Choose three.). A. A clustered firewall solution must be placed at the perimeter of the hosting platform, and all ingress and egress network traffic will route via this device. B. A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads. C. The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be scalable to 20,000 events per second. D. The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption. E. The hosting platform limits access to authorized users. F. All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system events must be monitored by security administrators.

An architect is designing a solution for a customer to meet the following business objectives: Pass compliance audits - Reuse compute hardware - Grow by 10% per year - Move to a subscription-based consumption model Which business objective translates as a conceptual model constraint?. A. Pass compliance audits. B. Reuse compute hardware. C. Move to a subscription-based consumption model. D. Grow by 10% per year.

A company is expanding and will be deploying new vSphere environments in multiple new locations. All environments use datastores backed by multiple storage technologies and vendors. How can the architect create a design to efficiently and repeatedly distribute existing company virtual machine (VM) templates to multiple new locations?. A. Use storage array replication tools to replicate the storage volume holding the company VM templates to each remote site. B. Upload company templates to a cloud provider and download to each new location. C. Create a published content library and have the new locations subscribe to it. D. Create a local content library at each site and manually copy only needed templates.

An architect is documenting the design decisions for a new vSphere solution. The following design decision has been made: Create a separate vSphere cluster for the management workloads What could the architect include as justification for this design decision?. This increases operational overhead as multiple clusters are required for management and compute workloads. This increases capital expenditure as hardware must be purchased for multiple clusters. This ensures that compute workloads have no impact on the management workloads. This ensures that there is always sufficient capacity available for the compute workloads.

An architect is tasked with designing a repeatable edge hosting solution using VMware technologies that can be deployed to existing hotels across the world and operate independently of other locations. During interviews with stakeholders, the architect notes the following information: There are 123 hotels in total. All hotels have a minimum of two 1 Gbps connections for guest Internet access. The company operates hotels in four countries: Canada, USA, Cuba and Mexico. The company is rebranding the hotels located in Mexico. Which of these is a business factor that will impact this design?. The company is rebranding the hotels located in Mexico. The company operates hotels in four countries: Canada, USA, Cuba and Mexico. There are 123 hotels in total. All hotels have a minimum of two 1 Gbps connections for guest Internet access.

The following is a list of requirements from a discovery workshop for a new VMware hosting platform system design: REQ001 - The architecture must support recoverability to the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) service. REQ002 - The architecture must support high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). REQ003 - The architecture must support reducing existing energy consumption and carbon footprint. REQ004 - The architecture must provide support for network virtualization using distributed virtual switches. Which requirement would be classified as a business (formerly functional) requirement?. The architecture must support high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). The architecture must support reducing existing energy consumption and carbon footprint. The architecture must support recoverability to the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) service. The architecture must provide support for network virtualization using distributed virtual switches.

An architect is working on a new VMware vSphere design and notes the following information during interviews with stakeholders: The company has previously worked with multiple VMware partners The company has an internal security policy that is referenced in long running contracts The company has an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) with VMware The company has a multi-year cloud subscription agreement Which of these is a business factor that will impact this design?. The company has previously worked with multiple VMware partners. The company has an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) with VMware. The company has an internal security policy that is referenced in long running contracts. The company has a multi-year cloud subscription agreement.

An architect is designing an upgrade to an existing vSphere environment. The project has been created to provide options for enabling growth and scalability, without increasing the data center footprint. The CIO has also tasked the architect with updating data protection operations, from the current agent-based backup approach. During a workshop with key stakeholders, the following information has been noted: The existing vSphere environment uses an external fibre attached storage array for the vSphere environment The storage array is connected via 4 Gbps fibre cards host bus adaptors (HBAs) The storage array does not support VMware Storage APIs—Data Protection (VADP) The architecture must support scaling virtual machines CPU, memory, and storage The environment will grow by an additional 20% virtual machines year over year Only two additional racks of equipment can be provisioned Which design choice will meet these requirements?. The architecture will extend the Fibre Channel external storage array, scaling out storage and compute by buying additional storage or server capacity as required. The architecture will replace the Fibre Channel storage array with an updated model, scaling out storage capacity as required. The architecture will be based on vSAN Ready Nodes, scaling out storage and compute by buying additional hyper-converged servers as required. The architecture will be based on stretched vSAN Ready Nodes, scaling out storage and compute by buying additional hyper-converged servers as required.

An architect is responsible for extending the hosting design for a customer. The customer has a mission-critical 3-node application which is load balanced in an active/active/passive configuration. The application administrator requests that the virtual infrastructure team be responsible for maintaining platform level availability. An organizational policy exists to mandate the highest possible availability for mission-critical applications. Based on the resource requirements, the architect has made the following design decision: The target vSphere cluster contains three VMware ESXi host servers A combination of which additional four physical design decisions should the architect make to maximize availability of the application? (Choose four.). The solution will create a VM-Host Affinity rule that specifies that workloads must run on hosts in a group. The solution will enable vSphere High Availability (HA) with restart priority set to "Highest" for the application virtual machines. The solution will create a VM-VM Affinity rule to keep virtual machines separate. The solution will create a host DRS group containing all hosts within the cluster. The solution will enable vSphere Fault Tolerance with vSphere High Availability (HA) virtual machine component failure enabled. The solution will create a virtual machine DRS group that contains all of the critical application workloads. The solution will create a VM-VM Affinity rule to keep virtual machines together.

An architect is reviewing the information provided by a customer for a new vSphere solution design. The customer has stated that some of the virtual machines (VMs) that will be hosted on the new solution handle credit card information from their users as part of an online payment application, and that some of the information will need to be stored temporarily to allow transactions to be completed. Therefore, the solution must be designed to be able to mask or hash the stored information as they will need to show compliance against common industry standards that contain references to the requirements for handling sensitive information. Which design quality is being requested by the customer?. Manageability. Performance. Security. Recoverability.

Which four factors should an architect consider when calculating the number of hosts required for a new multi-site vSphere-based solution that utilizes external storage? (Choose four.). The workload profile (CPU and memory) of each workload. The amount of resources required for virtual machine (VM) swap and VM snapshots. The number of existing workloads that will be decommissioned prior to the completion of project. The number of existing workloads that will be migrated onto the new solution. The number of network connections per physical host server. The future physical location of any workloads. The hardware specification of the underlying infrastructure.

An architect is designing a backup solution. Which two statements should be included in the logical design for this solution? (Choose two.). The database must be backed up every day during the maintenance window of 1:00AM and 3:00AM. The network that will be used for backups will be configured to use VLAN ID 1511. The bkp-nfs-01 datastore will be used for backups. The company's existing backup solution will be unsupported by the third-party vendor in six months. The database will be backed up using an API-based backup solution.

An architect is tasked with helping a customer develop a design that meets the following requirements: Must have no single point of failure Must include thorough standard operating procedure documentation Must use VMXNET3 virtual network interface card Must have 99.9% uptime Service Level Agreement Must use the latest version of VMware vSphere Which two are considered constraints? (Choose two.). Must use the latest version of VMware vSphere. Must have no single point of failure. Must use VMXNET3 virtual network interface card. Must include thorough standard operating procedure documentation. Must have 99.9% uptime Service Level Agreement.

A company has the requirement to ensure that business-critical applications have the necessary network bandwidth to function optimally and maintain a consistent quality of service (QoS). Which statement would be included in the conceptual design to support this requirement?. A distributed switch will be created and Network I/O Control will be enabled. The network infrastructure must ensure secure communications and efficiently use available bandwidth. Network resource pool named "bca-pool-02" is given a reservation quota of 5 Gbit/sec. The distributed switch will use a minimum of 25 Gbps Ethernet.

An architect is designing the virtual networking components of a vSphere-based solution that will provide an environment for the development of a new latency sensitive stock trading application. The following information was identified within the initial meeting with the customer: The customer has vCenter Standard and vSphere Standard licenses left over from a previous project. The customer's CFO has approved budget for additional purchases, if required. The following requirements were also identified during the meeting: The solution must support 500 development workloads concurrently running in the secondary site. The solution must support the ability to complete all vSphere Operational Management centrally. The solution must ensure business-critical applications are not impacted by vSphere system-level operations. Given the requirements, the architect has decided on a single 20-node cluster for development. Which three additional design decisions should the architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose three.). The solution will configure Traffic Shaping policies to restrict network bandwidth on ingress and egress. The solution will deploy VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus on all hosts within the cluster. The solution will deploy VMware vSphere Standard on all hosts within the cluster. The solution will deploy a single VMware Standard Switch that will be configured identically on each host. The solution will deploy a single vSphere Distributed Switch with each host connected to it. The solution will configure Network I/O control to ensure that system-level bandwidth does not impact workload network traffic.

An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer. During a requirements gathering workshop, the following information is provided: The solution must have a primary and secondary (isolated) environment The solution must support orchestration to address application dependencies The isolated environment must be able to scale on demand in case of a DR scenario The solution is managed through a single interface Which solution should the architect include in this design?. Site Recovery Manager with dedicated hardware. Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS. vSAN stretched cluster. A dedicated fault domain.

An architect is holding a requirements workshop with a customer for a new vSphere solution design. The customer states that the solution should make it easy to identify and apply patches or updates to ESXi hosts, including the ability to pre-stage the files on the ESXi hosts. Which design quality is being referenced by the customer?. Recoverability. Manageability. Performance. Availability.

An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer. During a requirements gathering workshop, the following information is provided: The solutions must provide a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The solution must have a primary and secondary site. The solution must support orchestration to address application dependencies. Which two solutions should the architect include in the design to meet these requirements? (Choose two.). vSAN stretched cluster. vSphere HA. Site Recovery Manager. vSphere Fault Tolerance. vSphere Replication.

An architect is designing a vSphere-based private cloud solution to support the following customer requirements: The solution should support running 5,000 concurrent production compute workloads across the primary and secondary sites. The solution should support running 1,000 development compute workloads within the secondary site. The solution should support up to 50 management workloads across the primary and secondary site. The solution must ensure the isolation of virtual infrastructure management operations between management and compute workloads. The solution must ensure that the hosting of any virtual infrastructure management workloads does not impact the amount of capacity available for compute workloads. The solution must ensure that all production compute workloads are physically isolated from development compute workloads. The solution must ensure that the operational management of compute workloads in the secondary site is possible in the event of a disaster affecting the primary site. How many VMware vCenter instances will the architect need to include in the design to meet these requirements?. 5. 3. 2. 4.

An architect is creating the design for a vSphere platform that will be used as the target for a migration from multiple legacy vSphere platforms that are being decommissioned. The customer has provided the following information: Each legacy platform has its own set of virtual machine templates stored in OVF format. All of the templates need to be migrated to the new platform. After migration, the templates should be centralized into a single location. The templates must be accessible to all clusters in the new platform vCenter instance. Any new templates added to the central location must be automatically available to all clusters. Administrators must be able to deploy new virtual machines directly from the template instances. The customer also confirmed that after the migrations are complete, the new platform will be the only vSphere solution available. Which design choice should the architect evaluate in the logical design for the storage and management of virtual machine templates?. Use a dedicated datastore on each vSphere cluster. Use a shared datastore on each vSphere cluster. Use a subscribed content library. Use a local content library.

A company is expanding an existing vSphere deployment to meet new demands from the business. The following requirements have been identified for the expanded infrastructure: REQ001- It must support enhanced vMotion compatibility (EVC) mode for Intel "Nehalem" Generation (Intel Xeon Core i7) processors. REQ002- It must be accessible via an API. REQ003- It must support a variety of operating systems. REQ004- It must notify administrators whenever a virtual machine is connected to more than one network. Which requirement would be classified as a technical (formerly non-functional) requirement?. It must be accessible via an API. It must notify administrators whenever a virtual machine is connected to more than one network. It must support enhanced vMotion compatibility (EVC) mode for Intel "Nehalem" Generation (Intel Xeon Core i7) processors. It must support a variety of operating systems.

An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The customer has provided the following information to describe how the solution will be used: The solution will host development workloads Administrators will utilize snapshots frequently, with snapshots sometimes retained for extended periods of time Some of the workloads are sensitive to latency on the I/O of the storage Storage for the workloads will be provided by a physical array The physical array does not include a storage provider All workloads must be hosted on the solution, there are no other vSphere environments available for use Which design decision should the architect make to meet the needs of the customer?. Use a storage array which supports VMware vSphere APIs: Array Integration (VAAI) to configure VMFS datastores for the workloads. On workloads which will use snapshots, set the latency-sensitivity=high advanced setting. Use a storage array which supports vSphere Storage APIs - Storage Awareness (VASA) to configure Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastores for the workloads. On workloads which are sensitive to latency, set the latency-sensitivity=high advanced setting.

An architect has been tasked with designing a greenfield hosting platform. As part of a workshop, it is identified that the new solution must support the following: Provide a centralized way to enforce virtual network security policy Provide network security for both virtual machines and containerized applications Deny network access between all workloads by default Linked services should be connected to the same virtual port groups by default Support for the security teams network monitoring solution Which elements should the architect include in the design to meet the identified requirements?. VMware Standard Switches, Access Lists and Promiscuous mode. Distributed Virtual Switches, Access Lists and Promiscuous mode. VMware Carbon Black, Distributed Virtual Switches and Traffic Filtering. VMware NSX, Distributed Firewalls and Port Mirroring.

An architect has made the following assumptions: The customer will provide licensing for the vSphere platform. The storage hardware has sufficient capacity for future workload scale. The data center offers sufficient power, cooling and rack space for workload scale. Which two risks must be documented in the design document in response to these assumptions? (Choose two.). The assumptions must be approved by the customer, architect and the architect’s company. The storage may not have capacity to accommodate 20% year over year virtual machine growth. The licenses provided by the customer only have support entitlement for one year. The customer may not have an existing licensing subscription that covers features the architect intends to use. The customer may not have sufficient data center cooling, power, and physical rack space available.

An architect is designing the datastore configuration of a new vSphere-based solution. The following information was obtained during the initial meeting with the customer: There is currently 500 production and DMZ virtual machine workloads spread evenly across the primary and secondary site. The profile of the workloads (per site) is as follows: DMZ: 75 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 200 GB disk Production: 50 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB disk 100 x Medium: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 200 GB disk 25 x Large: 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB disk The average IO Profile per workload is 70/30 read/write. The solution should cater to 10% storage growth in the first year. The solution should cater to 15% virtual machine snapshot overhead. The storage team has confirmed: A scalable external storage array has been deployed per site to support the storage requirements. The storage array will connect to all hosts using a dedicated Fibre Channel storage area network fabric. Usable storage capacity is available in 10 TB LUNs. As many LUNs as required can be provided. Every effort should be made to ensure the number of required LUNs is minimized. The security team has stated that all DMZ and production workloads must remain logically isolated from each other. Given the information provided, which three design decisions should the architect make to meet the requirements? (Choose three.). Six 10TB VMFS datastores will be configured on each site for all production workloads. Four 10TB VMFS datastores will be configured on each site for all production workloads. Each 10TB LUN will be configured as a VMFS datastore. Two 10TB VMFS datastores will be configured on each site for all DMZ workloads. Each 10TB LUN will be configured as an NFS datastore. Seven 10TB VMFS datastores will be configured on each site for all workloads.

An architect is reviewing the security and compliance requirements for a new application that will be hosted on a vSphere 8 environment. The following information has been noted about the new application: The application stores and processes confidential data The supporting virtual infrastructure is shared with other departments No other application stores or processes confidential data The application virtual machines must be able to run on any ESXi host in the cluster The storage layer is a iSCSI attached SAN Data at Rest Encryption is in place for each presented LUN validated to FIPS 140-2 No budget is available for additional infrastructure components or software Application data must not be accessible outside of the application's virtual machines The architect has been tasked with providing a secure virtual machine design to host the application. Which three design elements must the architect include to meet the requirements? (Choose three.). Virtual Machine Encryption. The vSphere Native Key Provider. A new encrypted iSCSI LUN. External Key Management Service (KMS) provider. A new local VMFS volume. VMware vSAN.

An architect is creating a design for a new vSphere solution to meet the following business requirement: REQ001 - Reduce operational expenditure Which design decision could the architect include in the logical design to satisfy this requirement?. Use vSphere Standard licenses on all clusters. Use heterogeneous hardware for the hosts in all clusters. Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager on all clusters. Use an N + 1 design to define the required capacity on all clusters.

An architect is tasked with devising a vSphere design strategy that will allow the company to quickly scale global data center functionality when a new location is identified. The following requirements must be met: The solution must include VMware licensing costs. The design must keep data locally to each specific location. The design must utilize current company processes around vSphere. Any new global location must be functional within one month of identification. Which design strategy will meet these requirements?. Plan specific locations throughout the world and build data centers in anticipation of the scale events. Purchase new hardware and deploy VMware Cloud Foundation when a new location is identified. Select partners in each identified location in anticipation of the scale events. Locate a partner that has a data center presence in major global locations that can deploy compatible company architecture.

An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer. During a requirement gathering workshop, the following information is provided: The solution must have a primary and secondary site. The solution must support a maximum of 1,000 concurrent workloads. The profile of the workloads are as follows: Production Workloads - 300 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM 400 x Medium: 2 vCPU, 6 GB RAM 100 x Large: 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM Development Workloads - 200 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM The corporate security policy states that, during normal operations, production workloads must be physically segregated from development workloads. All production workloads are split evenly across the primary and secondary site. All development workloads run only within the secondary site. In the event of a disaster affecting workloads in the primary site, the secondary site must be capable of running all production and development workloads. The vCPU to physical core ratio should be a maximum of 10:1 for production workloads and 20:1 for development workloads. The solution should provide a minimum of N + 1 resiliency at each component level. The target physical host hardware platform has already been defined by the company's hardware standards and therefore each host has the following configuration: 2 x 24 physical cores 768 GB RAM 2 x 100 GB SSD drives 6 x 10 GbE network cards What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the requirements?. 12. 14. 8. 10.

What are two benefits of the VMware Validated Solutions? (Choose two.). Provide prescriptive runbooks to deploy VMware solutions. Provide comprehensive manual deployment guidance and day 2 operational practices. Provide best practice design guidance. Provide faster time to value for VMware Cloud Foundation. Deploy technical validated implementations on VMware Cloud Foundation.

As part of designing a greenfield vSphere-based hosting solution, an architect is responsible for defining a patch management solution for the virtual infrastructure. During initial meetings with the customer, the following information is provided: There are two geographically dispersed physical sites (primary and secondary) in scope for the solution. The inter-site connectivity has been classified as low bandwidth and high latency. The customer has the following requirements: REQ001 - Only IT Security Team-approved versions of VMware Tools should be installed across all workloads within the infrastructure. REQ002 - The solution should minimize traffic across the inter-site link. REQ003 - Upgrades to the virtual infrastructure should continue in the event of a failure with either site. A combination of which three design decisions could the architect make to ensure the requirements are met? (Choose three.). The solution will set the UserVars.ToolsRamdisk advanced system setting on each VMware ESXi host to "1" (enabled). The solution will ensure that all VMware ESXi hosts within a site have access to the local VMFS datastore containing the shared VMware Tools repository. The solution will use VMware Autodeploy to ensure the latest version of VMware Tools is deployed to each workload. The solution will set the UserVars.ProductLockerLocation advanced system setting on each VMware ESXi host to point to the local site shared Repository. The solution will create a shared repository on a VMFS datastore within each site that contains all approved versions of VMware Tools. The solution will create a shared repository on a VMFS datastore within the primary site that contains all approved versions of VMwareTools.

An architect is conducting interviews to gather requirements for a new vSphere-based private cloud solution. The following information has been provided by the customer: The customer, after 10 years within an outsourced managed service contract, has decided to bring application hosting back in-house but lacks the VMware skills to support this. The customer currently has 5,000 workloads under contract and managed by their partner. The customer would like to keep IT infrastructure costs at a minimum. The customer would like to ensure that the solution supports the company's green IT agenda by reducing their carbon footprint. Which statement is classified as a business factor that would impact the design?. The customer would like to keep IT infrastructure costs at a minimum. The customer, after 10 years within an outsourced managed service contract, has decided to bring application hosting back in-house but lacks the VMware skills to support this. The customer would like to ensure that the solution supports the company's green IT agenda by reducing their carbon footprint. The customer currently has 5,000 workloads under contract and managed by their partner.

An architect is documenting the design for a new multi-site vSphere solution. The customer has informed the architect that the workloads hosted on the solution are managed by application teams who must perform a number of steps to return the application to service following a failover of the workloads to the secondary site. These steps are defined as the Work Recovery Time (WRT). The customer has provided the architect with the following information about the workloads, including the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO): Critical workloads have a WRT of 12 hours Production workloads have a WRT of 24 hours Development workloads have a WRT of 24 hours All workloads have an RPO of 4 hours Critical workloads have an RTO of 1 hour Production workloads have an RTO of 12 hours Development workloads have an RTO of 24 hours The customer has also confirmed that production and development workloads are managed by the same team and the disaster recovery solution will not begin the recovery of the development workloads until all critical and production workloads have been recovered at the secondary site. Which three statements would the architect document as the maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) for workloads within the design? (Choose three.). Critical Workloads: 12 hours. Development Workloads: 24 hours. Production Workloads: 36 hours. Critical Workloads: 13 hours. Development Workloads: 60 hours. Production Workloads: 24 hours.

An architect is tasked with designing a solution to monitor the operational state of a VMware Cloud Foundation environment through ad-hoc reporting and custom dashboards, alerts, and notifications. Using VMware Validated Solutions, which validated solution can the architect leverage to meet this requirement?. Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation. Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation. VMware Validated Design for VMware Cloud Foundation. Heath Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud Foundation.

An architect is designing a new vSphere 8 environment and needs to plan the migration of virtual machines from the source vSphere 7 infrastructure. The following has been captured about the source infrastructure and project: All virtual machines operate supported versions of Microsoft Windows All virtual machines have VMware Tools 11 or higher installed vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode is configured VMware PowerCLI is available in the environment No budget is available for discovery tooling The architect must capture and review active services from inside running virtual machines to inform the migration design. Considering the information available, which method can the architect use to acquire the information required?. Request and review the information via VMware vCenter. Deploy and review the service information from VMware Aria Operations. Deploy and review the service information from VMware Aria Operations for Applications. Request and review the information via VMware Tools and VMware PowerCLI.

An architect is tasked with updating the design of an existing vSphere-based solution for a pharmaceuticals customer. The update will include upgrade to VMware vCenter 8 and VMware vSphere 8 and the creation of a new cluster that will be used for ongoing research projects. The research project that is driving the need for an update includes a number of applications that are latency-sensitive. The customer has confirmed the following information during the initial workshop: The customer recently completed a right sizing exercise using VMware Aria Operations that resulted in a number of ESXi hosts becoming available for use. Each of the VMware ESXi host servers is configured with: 2 x 20-core Intel Xeon CPU sockets 1024 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets There is no additional budget for purchasing hardware. After confirming the existing hardware is still listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), the architect makes the following design decisions with regard to the workload design: The solution will support a maximum of 20 combined cores and sockets per virtual machine. The solution will support a maximum of 512 GB RAM per virtual machine. What should the architect document as justification for these design decisions?. The maximum supported configuration will ensure efficient use of RAM by sharing memory pages between virtual machines. The maximum supported configuration will ensure the virtual machines will adhere to a single Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) node boundary. The maximum supported configuration will ensure each virtual machine will exclusively consume a whole CPU socket. The maximum supported configuration will allow the creation of virtual machines that cross NUMA node boundaries resulting in improved overall performance.

A company has the requirement of ensuring that business-critical applications have the necessary network bandwidth to function optimally and maintain a consistent quality of service (QoS). Which statement would be included in the logical design to support this requirement?. The network infrastructure must ensure secure communications and efficiently use available bandwidth. Network resource pool named "bca-pool-02" is given a reservation quota of 5 Gbit/sec. The distributed switch will use a minimum of 25 Gbps Ethernet. A distributed virtual switch will be created and Network I/O Control will be enabled.

What are two valid use cases for VMware Cloud Foundation remote clusters? (Choose two.). Provide disaster recovery for an existing workload domain. Enable vSphere with Tanzu on a cluster deployed at a remote location. Provide resources for virtual machines at an edge location. Transform virtual machines to vSphere with Tanzu containers. Deploy a cluster within the same rack as the central VMware Cloud Foundation instance.

An architect is updating the design for a vSphere environment. During a workshop focused on security, the following has been identified: It has been determined that any configuration of ESXi hosts can only be completed via VMware vCenter The Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) service must be disabled on ESXi hosts The SSH service must be disabled on ESXi hosts Based on the information from the workshop, which element does the architect need to include in the design?. Strict Lockdown Mode. Normal Lockdown Mode. Normal Lockdown Mode with a defined Exception User list. Strict Lockdown Mode with a defined Exception User list.

What is a benefit of using workload domains in VMware Cloud Foundation?. Workload domains require separate instances of vCenter, decreasing complexity and management overhead. Workload domains allow for manual provisioning of vSphere clusters using the SDDC Manager. Workload domains are pre-configured and automatically deployed according to industry best practices for SDDC implementation. Each workload domain can only support a maximum of three ESXi hosts, making it easy to manage small workloads.

An architect is designing a new hosting platform for a healthcare provider with proposed locations in three regional areas. The following set of requirements have been provided by key stakeholders: REQ001 - The hosting platform must support long distance vMotion between the primary and secondary site. REQ002 - The maximum RTT (round-trip time) latency between the primary site and the secondary site must be less than 150 milliseconds. REQ003 - The hosting platform must be manageable from assets located in the third site. REQ004 - Each location must scale to support a minimum of 35TB storage. Which requirement would be classified as a technical (formerly non-functional) requirement for the new hosting platform?. Each location must scale to support a minimum of 35TB storage. The maximum RTT (round-trip time) latency between the primary and secondary site must be less than 150 milliseconds. The hosting platform must be manageable from assets located in the third site. The hosting platform must support long distance vMotion between the primary and secondary site.

An architect is responsible for the design of a greenfield vSphere-based solution for hosting a new web-based application. The customer has provided the following high-level information: The solution will host a highly transactional web application that is spread across multiple workloads within a vSphere cluster. The workloads should be distributed evenly across the hosts to maximize the performance and availability of the web application. The architect has made various design decisions, including: The solution will deploy vSphere distributed switches for all virtual networking. Which network load balancing method should the architect document in the physical design to meet the requirements?. Route Based on IP Hash. Route Based on Physical NIC Load. Route Based on Originating Virtual Port. Route Based on Source MAC Hash.

An architect is working on the cluster layout design for a new vSphere solution. The resource requirements for the first cluster state that memory demand can experience spikes of up to 20% over the documented average demand during peak business hours and the cluster must be able to handle these spikes without contention. Which design quality is being referenced?. Availability. Performance. Recoverability. Manegeability.

An architect is tasked with designing the implementation of the VMware Validated Solutions in an existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment that includes: Intelligent Operations Management Intelligent Logging and Analytics Which two design elements must the architect include in the design to be able to accomplish the deployment of these two solutions? (Choose two.). vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Application Virtual Network (AVN). NSX Edge Cluster. vSAN Stretched Cluster. NSX Federation.

An architect is designing the implementation of the VMware Validated Solutions in an existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment. The design must meet the following requirements: Must provide logical networks that can span physical network boundaries and locations Must use automatic Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configuration for Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches What should the architect recommend based on these requirements?. Overlay-backed NSX segments. A dedicated distributed virtual switch and dedicated port groups. VLAN-backed NSX segments. A dedicated NSX segment configured manually.

An architect is working with stakeholders to define requirements for architecting a new VMware vSphere design. What are two strategies for engaging with stakeholders to achieve this goal? (Choose two.). The architect conducts workshops with the virtualization technical team to gather deployment justifications. The architect conducts workshops and interviews limited to those stakeholders identified in the assessment phase of the project. The architect conducts workshops with stakeholders to gather business and technical requirements. The architect conducts multiple rounds of interviews with stakeholders, iteratively refining requirements. The architect conducts interviews focusing on business requirements to build the architectural business case.

An architect is updating an existing design to include a new vSphere cluster to meet the following customer requirements: The solution must provide automatic load redistribution of workloads across all resources in the cluster The solution must consider the usage patterns of workloads when performing load redistribution The solution must provide capacity to reserve resources equal to two ESXi hosts for failover in the event of a host failure The architect has also collected the following assumptions and constraints during the design workshops: A001 - Budget is available for additional hardware and software if required to meet the solution requirements A002 - Capacity is available to allow the deployment of additional tooling to manage the solution C001 - All management workloads must be deployed to the existing vSphere management cluster Which three design decisions should the architect include to meet the documented requirements? (Choose three.). The solution will enable the Predictive DRS option to avoid host over-commitment. The solution will enable the Memory Metric for Load Balancing option to avoid host over-commitment. The solution will deploy VMware Aria Operations to monitor the vSphere environment. The solution will enable the VM Distribution option to avoid host over-commitment. The solution will deploy a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) enabled cluster with sufficient capacity to meet the workload demands. The solution will deploy a vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM) enabled cluster with sufficient capacity to meet the workload demands.

An architect is designing a new workload domain in an existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment. The customer requirement is to physically separate the vSAN network traffic from other management network flows. Which design decision should the architect make to meet this requirement?. Deploy the new workload domain using a vSAN stretched cluster. Deploy the new workload domain using multiple physical adapters. Deploy the new workload domain using SDDC Manager. Deploy the new workload domain using API.

An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The customer has stated that the solution will be used to host different types of applications, some of which have special considerations. The customer has provided the following information in relation to the special considerations: The applications are sensitive to the time it takes for CPUs to be accessible to process instructions The applications send and receive large amounts of data across the network The applications are sensitive to the time it takes for the data to be sent and received at the destination What could the architect include in the design for these considerations?. Use vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) with affinity rules to keep the virtual machines on the same ESXi hosts. Use vSphere Distributed Services Engine with Network I/O Control on the distributed switch. Use vSphere Distributed Services Engine with Data Processing Units (DPUs) in the ESXi host hardware. Use vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) with SmartNICs in the ESXi host hardware.

Which is a benefit of using vSAN stretched clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation?. To enable high availability of virtual machines across different availability zones. To reduce the cost by eliminating the need for additional hardware and software components. To simplify physical network configurations by automatically configuring the required network components. To improve application performance by reducing network latency between availability zones.

An architect is documenting the logical design for a new vSphere solution. The following requirements have been provided to the architect by the customer for the design: The solution must be deployed in two locations: DC1 and DC2 The solution must limit the impact radius of accidental changes by administrators The solution must meet a recovery time objective (RTO) of four (4) hours and recovery point objective (RPO) of 24 hours The solution must allow workloads to run in both DC1 and DC2 during normal operations The solution must allow workloads to be moved bi-directionally between DC1 and DC2 The solution must use hyper-converged infrastructure for the virtual machine storage The customer has also confirmed that the network connection between DC1 and DC2 has a 10 Gbps bandwidth with a maximum round trip latency of 4 ms. The architect recommends the following design decision: Use separate clusters in DC1 and DC2 to form a multi-region design What should the architect include as justification for this design decision?. Sufficient capacity must be deployed in both DC1 and DC2 to support all running virtual machines. Using separate clusters mitigates the risk of an accidental change at the cluster level in DC1 from impacting DC2. Using separate clusters is the only configuration available that supports the RTO of four (4) hours. The network connection between DC1 and DC2 does not support the use of stretched clusters.

What is an example of a performance design quality?. The solution must scale to meet spikes in CPU demand. The solution must provide 40 physical CPU cores and 20 TB of physical memory. The solution must support applications with a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of four hours. The solution must support applications with 1,000 transactions per second (TPS).

An architect is responsible for designing a vSphere-based solution for a customer. The customer has the following requirements: The solution must provide redundancy and load balancing for storage traffic The solution must tolerate at least one failure There must be no single point of failure in the solution Which three considerations regarding physical host design should the architect analyze when making storage related design decisions? (Choose three.). Configure the fixed multi-pathing policy on the ESXi hosts. Use four single port storage host bus adapters (HBAs) in each ESXi host. Use an active-active array for Fibre Channel storage-based VMFS datastores. Configure a minimum of two paths to every LUN or datastore. Configure a minimum of four paths to every LUN or datastore. Use one quad-port storage host bus adapter (HBA) in each ESXi host.

Which two vSphere cluster-related design details would an architect document in a physical design? (Choose two.). The solution will set the isolation.tools.diskshrink,disable advanced setting to true. The solution will set the das.isolationaddress advanced setting to 192.168.100.2. The solution will deploy a dedicated VMware Management Cluster into the primary site. The solution will configure vSphere High Availability (HA). The solution will set the das.usedefaultisolationaddress advanced setting to true.

An architect is responsible for designing a vSphere-based solution for a customer. The customer has the following requirement: There should be no single points of failure within the solution. Which three considerations regarding physical host design should an architect analyze when making network teaming-related design decisions? (Choose three.). NIC Teaming requires a minimum of three physical network connections. For NIC Teaming, all NICs in the same port group must be in the same layer 2 broadcast domain. To increase performance, the NICs within a NIC team should be from the same physical NIC Card. To increase availability, the NICs within a NIC team should be from different physical NIC Cards. NIC Teaming requires a minimum of two physical network connections. For NIC Teaming, all NICs in the same port group must be in the same routable network.

An architect is responsible for designing a new vSphere-based solution to meet the following customer requirements: The solution must support component-level redundancy. The solution must support physical segregation of management and workload traffic. Any traffic from virtual infrastructure-level operations (such as migrations of workloads between hosts within a cluster) must not impact any workload. The solution should react to any substantial impact of physical network traffic to ensure workload traffic is unaffected. In response to this requirement, the architect makes the following logical design decisions: The solution will separate vSphere management traffic from all other network traffic. The solution will ensure that all replication and vMotion traffic will be separated from all other traffic. The solution will separate workload traffic from all other network traffic. The customer has a hardware standard for physical VMware ESXi host servers that includes 6 x 10 GbE network. Which three physical design decisions should the architect make to meet the requirements? (Choose three.). The solution will configure the Route Based on Source MAC Hash load balancing method. The solution will deploy three (3) vSphere standard switches each with a single uplink port group. The solution will configure the six (6) available network connections into load balanced pairs. The solution will deploy a vSphere distributed switch with three (3) uplink port groups. The solution will configure the six (6) available network connections into a single load balanced group. The solution will configure the Route Based on Physical NIC Load load balancing method.

An architect is responsible for the lifecycle management design for a brownfield vSphere-based solution. The following information has been provided during initial meetings around the new solution: Existing heterogeneous server hardware will be used to provide the hosting platform. The available hardware is: 10 servers that contain 2 x 20-Core Intel Xeon processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor A 10 servers that contain 2 x 24-Core Intel Xeon processors and 768 GB RAM from Vendor A 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor C All of the hardware is currently listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). All existing server hardware has 36 months vendor support remaining. The requirements from the customer are: REQ001 - The solution must support the hosting of 5,000 workloads across two physical sites. REQ002 - The solution should minimize the number of clusters. REQ003 - The solution must ensure that there is no impact to service when completing upgrades. Given the resource requirements needed for the solution, the architect has calculated that all of the existing servers will be required to provide sufficient resources for the new environment. The Intel-based servers will be deployed to the primary site and the AMD-based servers will be deployed to the secondary site. Which four additional design decisions should the architect make to ensure all requirements can be met? (Choose four.). The solution will create an Intel-based 20-node vSphere cluster in the primary site and an AMD-based 30-node vSphere cluster in the secondary site. The solution will use VMware SDDC Manager to perform lifecycle management of the solution. The solution will ensure each vSphere cluster supports a minimum of N + 1 redundancy. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to update and upgrade vSphere ESXi hosts in the secondary site. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager baselines to perform patching and upgrading of vSphere ESXi hosts in the secondary site. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to update and upgrade vSphere ESXi hosts in the primary site. The solution will ensure each vSphere cluster is configured with Distributed Power Management (DPM).

An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The following information has been gathered during the design workshops with the customer: The solution will be deployed into two availability zones (AZs) The solution will be configured as a single stretched cluster with shared storage across the two AZs Production and Development workloads will run across both AZs The cluster is configured as N + 1 The architect needs to ensure that, in the event of a host failure during maintenance of another host in the cluster, only the Production workloads are recovered. What should the architect include in the design to meet this requirement?. Configure vSphere HA VM Monitoring to VM and Application Monitoring Set the VM monitoring sensitivity to Custom. Configure vSphere HA VM Monitoring to VM Monitoring only Set the VM monitoring sensitivity to Preset of High. Configure vSphere HA Host Failure Response to Restart VMs Set the Development VMs to Disabled as the Restart Priority. Configure vSphere HA Host Failure Response to Restart VMs Set the cluster default Restart VM Restart Priority to Highest.

An architect is reviewing the information gathered from an initial requirements gathering workshop. The following requirements have been identified: REQ001 – The architecture must support tracking of administrative logons and actions. REQ002 – The architecture must support class three (three nines or 99.9%) system availability. REQ003 – The architecture must report on system usage in terms of CPU, memory, storage and network. REQ004 – The architecture must provide for system recovery point objective (RPO) of two hours. REQ005 – The architecture must provide access to a precision time protocol (PTP) for time synchronization. Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as business (formerly functional) requirements? (Choose two.). The architecture must provide access to a precision time protocol (PTP) for time synchronization. The architecture must report on system usage in terms of CPU, memory, storage and network. The architecture must support class three (Three nines or 99.9%) system availability. The architecture must support tracking of administrative logons and actions. The architecture must provide for system recovery point objective (RPO) of two hours.

An architect is responsible for the following customer considerations in a hardware refresh: Capacity planning will ensure that the environment does not exceed 70% of peak-average utilization on deployment. CPU purchases will favor clock speed and last level cache over cores per socket. Additional ESXi hosts will be added to the cluster when CPU or memory utilization exceeds 70% for 3 consecutive business days. Path Selection policy will be set to round robin and set to switch paths with every SCSI command. vCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1. What are three considerations when designing for performance? (Choose three.). Path Selection policy will be set to round robin and set to switch paths with every SCSI command. vCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1. Capacity planning will ensure that the environment does not exceed 70% of peak-average utilization on deployment. All ESXi hosts must have four paths to the storage array. CPU purchases will favor clock speed and last level cache over cores per socket. Additional ESXi hosts will be added to the cluster when CPU or memory utilization exceeds 70% for 3 consecutive business days.

An architect is tasked with designing a new workload domain in an existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment. The customer requirement is to physically separate the NSX host overlay network traffic from other management networks flows. Which design decision should the architect make to meet this requirement?. Deploy the new workload domain with NSX Federation. Deploy the new workload domain using multiple physical adapters. Deploy the new workload domain using SDDC Manager. Deploy the new workload domain using API.

An architect is designing the access management component of a vSphere-based solution. During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer states that the architecture must use a centralized user authentication solution. The architect decides that an Open Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (OpenLDAP) solution would meet the requirement. The security team intervenes and requires that the solution use the corporate Active Directory Domain Services solution. At which point did the architect's design become constrained?. When the customer provided the requirement for the use a centralized user authentication solution. When the architect made the design decision to use an OpenLDAP solution for user authentication. When the architect finished documenting all of the requirements. When the customer required the use of the corporate Active Directory Domain Services solution.

A company has a requirement that all production applications must have a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of one hour per month. Which statement would be included in the physical design to support this requirement?. vSphere HA will be enabled on all clusters. vSphere HA Host Failure Response will be set to Restart VMs. vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) will not be enabled for the production applications. Server hardware has already been purchased for the production applications.

An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The solution will be used to host workloads that have multiple dependencies. The customer provides the following information regarding the workloads: Workload 1: Self-Service Portal - Workload 2: Database - Workload 3: Identity Broker - Workload 4: Reporting Tool - Workload 5: Management Tool - Application A is formed of workloads 1 and 2 and has a dependency on workload 3 Application B is formed of workloads 2 and 4 and has a dependency on workload 3 Application C is formed of workload 5 and has a dependency on workload 4 How should the architect document the vSphere HA requirements to ensure that all of the applications can be recovered in the event of a host failure while observing the dependencies?. Set vSphere HA to Restart VMs in response to a Host Failure Set the Restart Priority of workload 3 to High Set the Restart Priority of workload 4 to Medium Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1, 2 and 5 to Low. Set vSphere HA to Shut Down and Restart VMs in response to a Host Isolation Set the Restart Priority of workloads 3 and 4 to High Set the Restart Priority of workload 5 to Medium Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to Low. Set vSphere HA to Restart VMs in response to a Host Failure Set the Restart Priority of workloads 3 and 4 to High Set the Restart Priority of workload 5 to Medium Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to Low. Set vSphere HA to Shut Down and Restart VMs in response to a Host Isolation Set the Restart Priority of workload 3 to High Set the Restart Priority of workloads 4 and 5 to Medium Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to Low.

An architect is documenting the design for a new vSphere cluster. The customer provides the following information: All ESXi hosts will use hardware from the same vendor All ESXi hosts will be monitored for hardware related issues using the vendor's monitoring tooling The vendor's monitoring tooling provides a plugin for vCenter to allow the hardware status to be visible The customer also informs the architect of the following requirements: Workloads must be automatically relocated to other hosts in the event that a host hardware is marked as degraded. Workloads must be automatically restarted on other hosts in the event of a host failure. What should the architect include in the design to meet these requirements?. vSphere HA will be enabled and set to Power off and Restart VMs in response to a host isolation. Proactive HA will be enabled with an Automation Level of Automated. vSphere HA will be enabled and set to Power off and Restart VMs in response to a host isolation. VM Monitoring will be enabled with a setting of VM Monitoring. vSphere HA will be enabled and set to restart VMs in response to a host failure. VM Monitoring will be enabled with a setting of VM and Application Monitoring. vSphere HA will be enabled and set to restart VMs in response to a host failure. Proactive HA will be enabled with an Automation Level of Automated.

An architect is tasked with creating a design for a vSphere-based solution. Reviewing requirements with the security team, the architect makes the following design decision: ESXi hosts in the environment will enable shell sandbox for SSH connections and the local ESXi shell What is an implication of the design decision to enable shell sandboxing?. Only certain commands can be executed in the sandboxed shell. Only administrative accounts can access the sandbox shell. All commands executed in the sandbox shell will be logged. The vSphere 8 hosts will operate in strict lockdown mode.

A company has the business goal of automated, centralized, and efficient management of the data center. Which statement would be included in the conceptual design to support this business goal?. Place the management cluster and the compute cluster in the same rack. Reduce the cost of providing IT services to the organization. Store templates and ISO files on a dedicated Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore. Join all vCenter instances to a single vCenter Single Sign-On domain.

What is a use case for a VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture model?. Run customer workloads in separate virtual infrastructure workload domains for scalability and autonomous licensing. Deploy an SDDC for a small-scale environment that can be extended later. Implement a dedicated management domain for high availability of management workloads. Deploy a large-scale environment with multiple vCenter instances for workload isolation.

An architect is discussing the design of a vSphere solution with a customer. The following requirements have been defined for the solution: The solution must provide data encryption at rest The solution must provide the ability to reduce the amount of storage consumed from duplicate data The solution must minimize the amount of resources consumed by the encryption process. The architect has made a design decision that VM Encryption will be used to meet these requirements. Which two implications should the architect include in the design in relation to this design decision? (Choose two.). Encryption is a CPU-intensive feature. Resource Pools should be used to assign shares to the encrypted VMs. When data is encrypted by the storage device, the effectiveness of de-duplication on the storage will be unaffected. Encryption is a CPU-internsive feature. The ESXi hosts should use the AES-NI BIOS setting to improve the performace of encryption and reduce CPU utilization. Encryption is a memory-intensive feature. The ESXi hosts should use the AES-NI BIOS setting to improve the performance of encryption and reduce memory utilization. When data is encrypted by the ESXi host, the effectiveness of de-duplication on the storage may be reduced.

During the creation of a vSphere-based design solution, an architect identifies the following assumption: The customer will be responsible for providing all licensing for the vSphere platform. The storage hardware has sufficient capacity for future workload scale. The data center offers sufficient power, cooling and rack space for workload scale. When documenting each assumption within the design, which two corresponding pieces of information must the architect also define? (Choose two.). The data center does not have sufficient capacity to meet the requirements for workload scale. The storage hardware may not have capacity for future workload scale. Additional data center locations have been identified. Contracts will be signed to bring the capacity online within 12 months. The project sponsor is responsible for the data center capacity. The administrator is accountable and the architect is informed. Additional storage capacity can be procured to expand the solution in the future as needed.

An architect is designing a new vSphere architecture and notes the following information during the design workshops: vSphere distributed switches (VDS) will be used for all vSphere clusters. Switch naming will be based on cluster name, resource type function and switch number. Port group naming will be based on function, role and VLAN number range. Each host has two physical network cards each with two NIC ports: Card A aligns to vmnic0 and vmnic1 Card B aligns to vmnic2 and vmnic3 The architecture must provide resilient network connections. Management Services will use VLAN ID 43. Virtual machines access VLAN ID 100. The vSphere infrastructure will use a hyper-converged storage architecture. How should the architect document the VDS physical design based on the noted information?. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 2 uplinks Port group name "pg_mgmt_43" uplink = vmnic0 teaming policy = active/passive Port group name "pg_VM_100" uplink = vmnic1 teaming policy = active/passive. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks Port group name "pg_mgmt_43" uplink = vmnic0, vmnic2 teaming policy = active/passive Port group name "pg_VM_100" uplink = vmnic1, vmnic3 teaming policy = active/passive. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks Port group name "pg_mgmt_43" uplink = vmnic0, vmnic1 teaming policy = active/passive Port group name "pg_VM_100" uplink = vmnic2, vmnic3 teaming policy = active/passive. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks Port group name "pg_mgmt" uplink = vmnic0, vmnic2 teaming policy = active/passive Port group name "pg_VM" uplink = vmnic1, vmnic3 teaming policy = active/passive.

An architect is tasked with an application migration to a new VMware Cloud platform. The application service owner assistance from the architect to identify the technical requirements of the application. The following has been made available following initial discussions: A VMware Aria Operations report containing current resource usage The output from a planning session including a roadmap for planned service growth A service dependency map from the company’s IT operations management tool The desired consolidation ratio for the target platform is 10:1 The applications hosting budget is reducing by 10% Which two contain the technical requirements of the application? (Choose two.). The output from a planning session including a roadmap for planned service growth. The desired consolidation ratio for the target platform is 10:1. A VMware Aria Operations report containing current resource usage. The applications hosting budget is reducing by 10%. A service dependency map from the company’s IT operations management tool.

An architect is responsible for the availability design of a solution. The following information has been provided: Virtual machines (VMs) run 8 or less vCPUs All hosts have a minimum of two NICs per vSphere distributed switch (VDS) connected to separate physical switches All hosts have a minimum of two host bus adapters (HBAs) connected to separate physical switches Which three options maximize VM availability in the event of an ESXi host failure? (Choose three.). vSphere High Availability Restart Priority set to default at the cluster level. vSphere NIC Teaming policy: Route based on originating port ID set on the distributed port group. vSphere Fault Tolerance configured on the virtual machines. vSphere Round Robin storage multi-pathing policy set on each ESXi host. VMware Tools configured to automatically update on reboot for all virtual machines. Dynamic Link Aggregation (LACP) configured on the distributed virtual switch.

An architect is responsible for designing the upgrade of a brownfield vSphere-based solution for a financial services customer. The customer has a requirement to host a mission critical, latency sensitive stock trading application. During initial meetings with the customer, the following information is provided: The solution is currently running vSphere 7.0 U3 All vSphere distributed switches (VDS) are at version 7.0.0 The customer has provisioned new hardware with dedicated AMD Data Processing Units (DPU) The mission critical applications must not be adversely affected by other workloads running in the environment The architect has made the following design decisions: The solution will upgrade the existing VMware vCenter Server to version 8.0 The solution will upgrade all existing VMware ESXi hosts to version 8.0 The solution will deploy VMware ESXi 8.0 for all new host servers Which three additional design decisions should the architect make to ensure that the new hardware can be used to support the latency-sensitive application? (Choose three.). The solution will deploy new vSphere distributed switches (7.0.3) and connect the new DPU-enabled hosts. The solution will configure the hosts to use Network Time protocol (NTP). The solution will deploy all DPU-enabled VMware ESXi hosts into a dedicated VMware vSphere cluster. The solution will configure network offloads compatibility to support DPUs. The solution will deploy new vSphere distributed switches (8.0.0) and connect the new DPU-enabled hosts. The solution will upgrade all existing vSphere distributed switches to version 8.0.0.

An architect is discussing recoverability considerations for a new vSphere solution as part of a requirements workshop. The customer has informed the architect that the company policy is to not perform backups of ESXi hosts due to their selected backup software not supporting the ESXi software. In the past, when hosts have experienced failures, the hosts have been reinstalled from the VMware provided ESXi image and manually configured by an administrator. The customer asks the architect to design a solution that will reduce the manual effort required by the administrator to return a failed host to service. What could the architect include in the design to meet the customer's request?. Use the ESXi command line to perform backups of the ESXi hosts to a central location. Configure a host profile per cluster. Create a custom iso image of ESXi and update it each time VMware releases a new update. Configure ESXi hosts with RAID1 boot volumes.

A company has a requirement that all production applications must have a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of one hour per month. Which statement would be included in the conceptual design to support this requirement?. Production applications will run in a dedicated Tier 2 cluster. Server hardware has been allocated for the production applications. vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) will not be enabled for the production applications. vSphere HA Host Failure Response will be set to Restart VMs.

A company will be replacing the external storage array that is currently providing storage to the vSphere environment. The architect must design a storage architecture for existing and future workloads. Company policy required storage separation of workloads by departments. Which design decision should the architect make to satisfy the requirement and scale for additional departments?. Use storage volumes based on applications. Use one storage volume per department and create new volumes for new departments. Use one storage volume per existing department and extend current volumes for new departments. Use N + 1 storage volumes for current and future workloads.

An architect is reviewing the information provided by a customer for a new vSphere solution design. The customer requests that the solution use multiple network connections for the ESXi management network to increase resilience. Availability. Manageability. Performance. Recoverability.

An architect is tasked with designing a new vSphere environment for a customer. The new environment must: Be standardized, repeatable, and consistent Contain the same common heterogenous components that run from commercial hardware across an on-premises, edge, and broad hybrid cloud eco-system Provide intrinsic and intelligent security in every component from the hypervisor to the storage, networking, and management layers Which VMware solution will satisfy these requirements?. VMware Cloud Foundation. VMware Validated Design. VMware vSphere. VMware Validated Solutions.

An architect is designing a vSphere-based private cloud solution to support the following customer requirements: The solution should support running 5,000 concurrent production compute workloads across the primary and secondary sites. The solution should support running 1,000 development compute workloads within the secondary site. The solution should support up to 50 management workloads across the primary and secondary site. The solution must ensure the isolation of virtual infrastructure management operations between management and compute workloads. The solution must ensure that hosting of any virtual infrastructure management workloads does not impact the amount of capacity available for compute workloads. The solution must ensure that all production compute workloads are physically isolated from development compute workloads. The solution must ensure that the operational management of compute workloads in the secondary site is possible in the event of a disaster affecting the primary site. A combination of which four design decisions should the architect make to support the requirements? (Choose four.). The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in each management domain for the virtual infrastructure management of management workloads. The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in the secondary site management domain for the virtual infrastructure management of production compute workloads. The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance within the primary site management domain for hosting all management virtual machines. The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in the primary site management domain for the virtual infrastructure management of production compute workloads. The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in the primary site management domain for virtual infrastructure management of production and development compute workloads. The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in the secondary site management domain for the virtual infrastructure management of production and development compute workloads. The solution will deploy a separate management domain within each site for hosting local management workloads only.

An architect is working on the design documentation for a new vSphere solution. The architect has completed a conceptual model based on the following requirement: REQ001 – The solution must use shared storage What could the architect include in the logical design to meet this requirement?. The use of an NFS mount point, including the IP address of the NFS server it is hosted on. The use of an all flash vSAN datastore. The use of an HCI solution for a datastore. The use of File Based Storage, including the list of permissions applied to the share.

Refer to the exhibit. An architect is assigned a new project to design a VMware hybrid cloud solution. The project is following a proven design methodology following the V-Model of systems engineering and verification. The selected methodology follows these phases: Assess, Design, Deploy and Validate. Which activity would be conducted during the Design phase?. The architect conducts a series of group interviews with stakeholders. The architect helps stakeholders learn the mechanics of the solution. The architect resolves configuration issues and addresses concerns. The architect defines the scope of the project.

An architect is tasked with designing the VMware Validated Solutions in an existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment. The design must meet the following requirements: Must not allow logical networks to span physical network boundaries or locations Must support static routing - What should the architect recommend based on these requirements?. Overlay-backed NSX segments. A dedicated distributed virtual switch and dedicated port groups. VLAN-backed NSX segments. A dedicated NSX segment configured manually.

n architect is working on a security design for a shared storage environment. The storage array provides connectivity by the NFS protocol. Which two design decisions could the architect include for this solution? (Choose two.). Create a dedicated storage network. Create a dedicated VLAN. Create a challenge handshake authentication protocol (CHAP) password to prevent unauthorized access. Create dedicated volumes for sensitive data. Create a dedicated Fibre Channel network.

An architect is designing a vSphere-based application hosting solution in a brownfield site. The following information has been provided during the requirements gathering workshop: The solution should support 5,000 compute workloads across two physical sites. The CFO has approved budget for the purchase of new server and network hardware only. The existing storage array is currently Fibre Channel connected with 2 x 8 Gbps interfaces to a dedicated Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric. The existing storage array does not support integration with vSphere API for Storage Awareness. The existing storage array can be configured to support NFS storage. The existing vSphere administration team will responsible for operational management of the new solution. Which storage technology should the architect recommend based on these requirements?. vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols). iSCSI. Fibre Channel. VMware vSAN.

An architect is documenting the design for a new multi-site vSphere solution. The customer has informed the architect that the workloads hosted on the solution are managed by application teams, who must perform a number of steps to return the application to service following a failover of the workloads to the secondary site. These steps are defined as the Work Recovery Time (WRT). The customer has provided the architect with the following information about the workloads: Critical workloads have a WRT of 12 hours Production workloads have a WRT of 24 hours Development workloads have a WRT of 24 hours All workloads have an RPO of 4 hours Critical workloads have an RTO of 1 hour Production workloads have an RTO of 12 hours Development workloads have an RTO of 24 hours The customer has also confirmed that the Disaster Recovery solution will not begin the recovery of the development workloads until all critical and production workloads have been recovered at the secondary site. What would the architect document as the maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) for each type of workload in the design?. Critical Workloads: 13 hours - Production Workloads: 36 hours - Development Workloads: 48 hours. Critical Workloads: 13 hours - Production Workloads: 36 hours - Development Workloads: 60 hours. Critical Workloads: 12 hours - Production Workloads: 24 hours - Development Workloads: 24 hours. Critical Workloads: 16 hours - Production Workloads: 28 hours - Development Workloads: 28 hours.

An architect is responsible for the lifecycle management design for a brownfield vSphere-based solution. The following information has been provided during initial meetings around the new solution: Existing heterogeneous server hardware will be used to provide the hosting platform. The available hardware is: 10 servers that contain 2 x 20-Core Intel Xeon processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor A 10 servers that contain 2 x 24-Core Intel Xeon processors and 768 GB RAM from Vendor A 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor B All of the hardware is currently listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). All existing server hardware has 36 months vendor support remaining. The requirements from the customer are: REQ001 - The solution must support the hosting of 5,000 workloads spread across two physical sites. REQ002 - The solution should minimize the number of clusters. REQ003 - The solution must ensure that there is no impact to service when completing upgrades. Given the resource requirements needed for the solution, the architect has calculated that all of the existing servers will be required to provide sufficient resources for the new environment. The Intel-based (Vendor A) servers will be deployed to the primary site and both the Intel-based and AMD-based servers (Vendor B) will be deployed to the secondary site. Which assumption should the architect make to support the lifecycle management of vSphere 8?. The different processor architectures across both sites will remediate against a shared vSphere Lifecycle Manager baseline. The different processor architectures will be located in the same cluster to support vSphere Lifecycle Manager image-based remediation. The different processor architecture within a single site will remediate against a single vSphere Lifecycle Manager image. The different processor architectures across both sites will remediate against a single vSphere Lifecycle Manager image.

During a workshop for a design project, the following information is shared: Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners to promote collaboration. Maintain high standards of quality and professionalism in all aspects of the project. Build a strong foundation for future projects, including cloud infrastructures. Ensure project timelines and milestones are met by effectively managing resources and priorities. Which of these would be classified as a business outcome of the project?. Build a strong foundation for future projects, including cloud infrastructures. Ensure project timelines and milestones are met by effectively managing resources and priorities. Maintain high standards of quality and professionalism in all aspects of the project. Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners to promote collaboration.

What is an example of an availability design quality?. A vSphere cluster is configured to support an N + 1 level of redundancy. A vSphere cluster is configured to support a maximum tolerated downtime of one hour. A vSphere cluster is configured to stage patches on ESXi hosts before applying them. A vSphere cluster is configured to use a dedicated network adapter for vMotion traffic.

An architect will be updating an existing vSphere data center design. The following information has been provided: The new design must carry over existing VLANs for workloads. The networking for storage must not share the data path with workload traffic. The new design must be able to add additional VLANS. The new design must reduce management overhead. The new replacement servers have two 100 GB network cards. Which design will meet the requirements for existing workload networks and allow scaling of additional networks?. One vSphere standard switch (VSS) configuration Workload and storage traffic on separate uplinks. One vSphere standard switch (VSS) configuration Workload and storage traffic on separate uplinks. Two vSphere distributed switches (VDS) Each VDS uses one uplink as active and the other uplink as passive Existing and new workload traffic on one VDS and storage traffic on the other VDS. One vSphere distributed switch (VDS) configuration The VDS uses aggregated uplinks - Workload and storage traffic on the aggregated uplinks.

An architect is holding a design workshop with a customer for a new solution. The customer states that the new solution needs to provide the following capabilities: Automated deployment and lifecycle management of the vSphere platform Self-Service deployment of virtual machines and other objects from a central catalog Monitoring, logging and analytic tooling to provide visibility and troubleshooting of the whole solution Support deployment via infrastructure-as-code methods for the additional management components The customer also requests that the solution be as cost-effective as possible while still delivering a fast time to value for the organization. Which design approach should the architect recommend to meet these requirements?. Use VMware Validated Designs for the vSphere solution and VMware Validated Solutions for the additional components. Use VMware Cloud Foundation for the vSphere solution and VMware Validated Solutions for the additional components. Use VMware Cloud Foundation for the vSphere solution and a custom design for the additional components. Use a custom design for the vSphere solution and VMware Validated Solutions for the additional components.