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Question #1

An administrator is investigating the reason for a virtual machine restarting.

In the vmware.log file, the administrator finds the following error:

What is a likely cause of this virtual machine restart? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Guest operating system fault
  • B . User or API request to shut down guest operating system
  • C . High Availability
  • D . User or API request to restart guest operating system

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Correct Answer: A
Question #2

What determines the default bandwidth share allocation for system traffic, such as vSphere Fault Tolerance and vSphere vMotion? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Physical network adapter
  • B . Network I/O Control version
  • C . Virtual machine hardware version
  • D . Load-balancing

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-26AAAFA4-BFD3-4D72-AEC8-55F4CF439DC0.html

Question #3

What is the server virtualization product that combines the ESXi hypervisor and the vCenter Server? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . NSX
  • B . vRealize Operations Manager
  • C . vSphere
  • D . vSAN

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Correct Answer: C
C

Explanation:

Reference: https://www.mustbegeek.com/understanding-vmware-vsphere-7-editions-and-features/

Question #4

An administrator is unable to manage certificates with the vSphere Client.

What is another supported option that can be used to manage certificates? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . vCenter Server Management Interface
  • B . Command Line Interface
  • C . vRealize Operations Manager
  • D . Cloud Builder

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.psc.doc/GUID-E0609A99-A8D1-4336-BD3B-DE707E261A63.html

Question #5

An administrator wants to be able to log in to the vSphere Client and view the inventories of two vCenter Server instances.

What must the administrator do to meet this requirement? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Configure Enhanced Linked Mode on each vCenter Server instance after deployment is complete.
  • B . Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain during deployment.
  • C . Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain using the vSphere Client.
  • D . Configure the vCenter Server Management Interface to view both vCenter Server instances.

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2034074

You can join vCenter Server instances in Linked Mode only when all of the instances are registered in the same Single Sign-On deployment. This includes Single Sign-On instances installed on different sites. When vCenter Server B on site B is joined to vCenter Server A on site A, the join tool establishes connection both to Single Sign-On A and Single Sign-On B.

Question #6

An administrator is NOT able to enable ESXi secure boot.

What is a possible cause of this issue? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . The vCenter Server version is 7.0.
  • B . ESXi is using Trusted Platform Module version 1.2.
  • C . The ESXi version is 7.0
  • D . ESXi is using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

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Correct Answer: C
C

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-5D5EE0D1-2596-43D7-95C8-0B29733191D9.html

Question #7

What is the minimum CPU core requirement for successful installation, or upgrade, or ESXi on a host? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . 8
  • B . 1
  • C . 32
  • D . 2

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Correct Answer: D
D

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-DEB8086A-306B-4239-BF76-E354679202FC.html

Question #8

Refer to the exhibit.

Which trusted infrastructure component is missing and represented by the area labeled “A”? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Key Management Server
  • B . vSphere Virtual Machine Encryption
  • C . Key Provider Service
  • D . Attestation Service

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-CEFC9BAE-1685-49A7-9854-4AC997F2F1C3.html

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-E4945A3B-BCBE-42AD-A00F-6A6957217041.html

Question #9

Which two statements are true regarding the use of firmware update packages in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)

  • A . A hardware support manager must be registered as a vCenter Server extension.
  • B . The firmware and drivers add-on are distributed through the official VMware online depot.
  • C . The firmware and drivers add-on can be used on clusters that are managed with baselines.
  • D . The firmware and drivers add-on can add or remove components from the ESXi base image.
  • E . The firmware and drivers add-on is provided by a third-party vendor.

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Correct Answer: A,D
A,D

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere-lifecycle-manager.doc/GUID-34AF5B19-FC80-4915-8358-D5FCC8A8E69E.html

Question #10

An administrator wants to enable bandwidth allocation for workloads by using Network I/O Control.

What should the administrator configure to accomplish this? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Management traffic
  • B . Virtual machine traffic
  • C . Load-balancing
  • D . NIC teaming policy

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-E13CC2B0-5357-4261-8C0E-8BE5BD56BD20.html

Question #11

An administrator is asked to deploy a virtual machine (VM) that can sniff packets for the Security team.

Which setting must be set to “accept” on the VM’s port group? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Promiscuous mode
  • B . Forged transmits
  • C . MAC address changes
  • D . Traffic shaping

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

Reference: https://blog.packet-foo.com/2013/04/capturing-packets-of-vmware-machines/comment-page-1/

Question #12

An administrator is deploying a vCenter Server Appliance and wants to join an existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain.

The administrator gathers the following information:

✑ FQDN of the vCenter Single Sign-On server to join

✑ Domain name of the vCenter Single Sign-On server being joined

✑ Password of the vCenter Single Sign-On server administrator account.

What other information is needed to join the existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . vSphere Client port
  • B . Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) port
  • C . Single Sign-On (SSO) port
  • D . HTTPS port

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Correct Answer: A
Question #13

Which two storage technologies can an administrator use to deploy the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)? (Choose two.)

  • A . Fibre Channel storage
  • B . vSAN storage
  • C . Virtual Volumes storage
  • D . NFS storage
  • E . iSCSI storage

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Correct Answer: A,E
A,E

Explanation:

Reference: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-vmfs-tech-overview-white-paper.pdf

VMFS can be deployed on three kinds of SCSI-based storage devices:

• Direct-attached storage

• Fibre Channel storage

• iSCSI storage

Question #14

An administrator is configuring ESXi host behavior before and during the remediation process.

Which remediation setting is supported only on select hardware platforms? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . VM migration
  • B . HA admission control
  • C . Maintenance mode failures
  • D . Quick Boot

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Correct Answer: D
D

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere-lifecycle-manager.doc/GUID-472964C3-70F3-4B83-8B1E-6C7CB4906DF8.html

Question #15

Which tool is used to monitor the free space in the vCenter Server database? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . esxtop
  • B . df
  • C . vimtop
  • D . vmstat

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76563

Question #16

Which feature is a prerequisite for Proactive High Availability (HA)? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . vCenter High Availability
  • B . vSAN Cluster
  • C . Predictive Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  • D . vSphere Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)

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Correct Answer: D
D

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-3E3B18CC-8574-46FA-9170-CF549B8E55B8.html

Question #17

Which type of network adapter is designed to provide connectivity to hosts and handle the standard system traffic of vSphere vMotion? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . VMkernel port
  • B . VXLAN virtual tunnel end point (VXLAN VTEP)
  • C . Virtual machine network interface card (VMNIC)
  • D . VM network

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-D4191320-209E-4CB5-A709-C8741E713348.html

Question #18

An administrator wants to be able to send vCenter Server log files to a remote syslog server and analyze logs using vRealize Log Insight.

Which step must the administrator take to meet this requirement? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Configure the vCenter Server logging options using the vSphere Client.
  • B . Specify the remote syslog server name at deployment using the vCenter Server GUI Installer.
  • C . Specify the vRealize Log Insight system name using the vSphere Client.
  • D . Configure log file forwarding using the vCenter Server Management Interface.

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Correct Answer: D
D

Explanation:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenter.configuration.doc/GUID-9633A961-A5C3-4658-B099-B81E0512DC21.html?hWord=N4IghgNiBcIG4GECmA7ALkgTgAgMpbi2wgHsBzbAMwEsIkBnEAXyA

Question #19

An administrator wants to implement virtual machine encryption.

Which component encrypts the virtual machine files? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Certificate
  • B . Data encryption key (DEK)
  • C . Key encryption key (KEK)
  • D . Key management server (KMS)

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Correct Answer: B,C
B,C

Explanation:

Reference: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vm-encryption-vsphere65-perf.pdf

Question #20

Which privilege is required to run the esxtop utility? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Root user
  • B . vStatsUser
  • C . vStatsAdmin
  • D . Administrator

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.monitoring.doc/GUID-D89E8267-C74A-496F-B58E-19672CAB5A53.html

Question #21

What is a pre-requisite for increasing datastore capacity? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . The backing device for the datastore has enough free space.
  • B . The datastore is managed by Storage DRS (SDRS).
  • C . The datastore is 100% full.
  • D . There are NO powered-on virtual machines on the datastore.

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-D57FEF5D-75F1-433D-B337-E760732282FC.html

Question #22

An administrator would like to make virtual machine templates and ISO images available to all vCenter Server instances in the data center.

Which feature should the administrator use to achieve this goal? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Host profiles
  • B . Content libraries
  • C . Storage policies
  • D . Resource pools

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-254B2CE8-20A8-43F0-90E8-3F6776C2C896.html

Question #23

Which tool is used to monitor the vCenter Server Appliance resources? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . vimtop
  • B . esxtop
  • C . esxcli
  • D . vmstat

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

Reference: https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2018/04/03/ow-to-monitor-a-vcsa-using-vimtop.aspx

Question #24

vCenter High Availability (HA) protects vCenter Server against host and hardware failures.

What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to enable this capability? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . 5
  • B . 7
  • C . 1
  • D . 3

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Correct Answer: D
D

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-70-availability-guide.pdf (73)

Question #25

An administrator runs a two-node vSphere cluster, which contains two domain controller virtual machines (VMs). The administrator wants to ensure that VMs run on separate hosts without interfering with normal maintenance operations.

How should the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Create a ‘Must run Virtual Machines to Hosts’ anti-affinity rule.
  • B . Create a ‘Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines’ anti-affinity rule.
  • C . Create a ‘Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines’ dependency rule.
  • D . Create a ‘Should run Virtual Machines to Hosts’ anti-affinity rule.

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

Reference: https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/tutorials/vmware-storage-drs-rules

Question #26

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator is consistently receiving an alarm regarding a CPU performance issue; however, there is NO CPU issue identified.

What can the administrator do to make sure the alarm is triggered when there is an actual CPU performance issue? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Change ‘VM CPU Ready Time’ to ‘VM Memory Usage.’
  • B . Change ‘Show as Critical’ to ‘Show as Warning.’
  • C . Change ‘VM CPU Ready Time’ to ‘VM CPU Usage.’
  • D . Change ‘is below’ to ‘is above.’

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Correct Answer: D
D

Explanation:

https://www.actualtechmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/demystifying-cpu-ready.pdf

Question #27

An administrator is tasked with planning an upgrade of a VMware vSphere environment to version 7.0. The platform consists of 80 ESXi hosts, logically divided into 10 clusters. The tasks will be completed by another operations team within the company.

The hardware is consistent and a single embedded vCenter Server 6.7 appliance is managing the environment.

Which statement is true regarding a suitable upgrade approach? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . The vCenter Server can be upgraded using a pre-configured customized JSON template.
  • B . The ESXi hosts can only be upgraded using the Graphical User Interface Installer.
  • C . Auto-deploy must be used to upgrade the large scale environment.
  • D . A new Platform Services Controller must be deployed first.

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Correct Answer: C
Question #28

An administrator is trying to configure vCenter Single Sign-On from the vSphere Client but does NOT have permission.

Which role is required in order to configure vCenter Single Sign-On? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . vCenter Single Sign-On Administrator
  • B . vCenter Administrator
  • C . vCenter Server Appliance Root
  • D . vCenter Power User

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.psc.doc/GUID-75D4E587-3F9B-4B50-96DA-D6DB6D1781D7.html

Question #29

Which resource pool setting is used to specify the relative priority or importance as high, normal or low? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Limits
  • B . Reservation type
  • C . Shares
  • D . Reservations

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Correct Answer: C
C

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-C0D2EFAE-1FE4-4867-AC3F-3E70D9A9ED59.html

Question #30

Which local only host utility is used for primary, real-time performance monitoring in vSphere? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . resxtop
  • B . top
  • C . esxtop
  • D . vSphere Command-Line Interface (CLI)

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Correct Answer: C
C

Explanation:

Reference: https://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/VMware-vSpheres-built-in-performance-monitoring-tools

Question #31

Which two components are core to vSphere? (Choose two.)

  • A . ESXi
  • B . vSAN
  • C . vCenter Server
  • D . vRealize Network Insight
  • E . vRealize Operations Manager

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Correct Answer: A,C
A,C

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-302A4F73-CA2D-49DC-8727-81052727A763.html

Question #32

Which vSphere feature provides for continuous local data center availability? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . vSphere Fault Tolerance
  • B . Cross vCenter Migration
  • C . vSphere Storage vMotion
  • D . vSphere Replication

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

Reference: https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2015/03/09/vsphere-6-fault-tolerance.aspx

Question #33

Which TCP/IP stack can support management traffic, vSphere vMotion, IP storage and vSphere Fault Tolerance? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . VXLAN TCP/IP stack
  • B . Provisioning TCP/IP stack
  • C . Default TCP/IP stack
  • D . vSphere vMotion TCP/IP stack

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Correct Answer: C
C

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-D4191320-209E-4CB5-A709-C8741E713348.html

Question #34

An administrator sees a virtual machine message that reads, “Consolidation is required” in the vSphere Client.

Which action does ESXi take when the administrator completes snapshot consolidation? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Collapses all snapshots in the current snapshot tree
  • B . Commits redundant delta disks to the base disk
  • C . Collapses all snapshots into a single snapshot
  • D . Deletes all snapshots without committing to the base disk

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Correct Answer: D
Question #35

Refer to the exhibit.

What is the effective role the test1 account has on the Finance01 virtual machine? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . No access
  • B . Administrator
  • C . Read-only
  • D . Virtual machine user

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-72EE3449-79FD-4E7A-B164-26904958540F.html

Question #36

What are two functions of vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)

  • A . Update ESXi hosts in a cluster using baselines
  • B . Upgrade VMware Tools and virtual machine hardware
  • C . Run vCenter Server interoperability reports
  • D . Run vCenter Server upgrade pre-checks
  • E . Update standalone ESXi hosts using images

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Correct Answer: A,B
A,B

Explanation:

https://www.stevenbright.com/2020/04/getting-started-with-vsphere-7-0-lifecycle-manager/

Question #37

What is the foundation of a software-defined data center (SDDC)? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . vRealize Operations Manager
  • B . vSphere
  • C . vSAN
  • D . NSX

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

Reference: https://www.vmware.com/solutions/software-defined-datacenter.html#:~:text=as%2050%20percent. -,vSphere,point%20for%20building%20your%20SDDC

Question #38

Refer to the exhibit.

What does the %RDY for the Win1 virtual machine indicate? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . High CPU wait time
  • B . Low CPU usage
  • C . High CPU contention
  • D . Low CPU contention

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Correct Answer: C
C

Explanation:

Reference: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/463542

Question #39

An administrator receives an escalation to investigate a low disk space alarm on a datastore. The administrator discovers that a snapshot has been accidentally taken on a production, write-intensive database server. The snapshot has grown to nearly 1 TB in size in less than an hour and continues growing every second.

Which behavior should the administrator expect while deleting the snapshot? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . ESXi will create a virtual RAM disk to cache ongoing database write activity; performance impact will be limited.
  • B . ESXi will commit the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; ongoing database write activity could result in long stun times.
  • C . ESXi will merge the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; the virtual machine will be briefly stunned.
  • D . ESXi will instantly switch from the base disk to the snapshot delta disk with no performance impact.

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Correct Answer: B
B

Explanation:

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1002836

Question #40

A single host is manually configured to company standards.

Which option would an administrator select to capture this configuration for future use? (Choose the best answer.)

  • A . Extract Host Profile
  • B . Reset Host Customizations
  • C . Attach Host Profile
  • D . Import Host Profile

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.install.doc/GUID-4D8EDD07-6C77-4845-8F0E-A0F4C9102840.html

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.hostprofiles.doc/GUID-4D3909C5-A335-4091-B13C-CC219472A75C.html

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