An architect is designing an environment for a retail customer. The design will use a single small vCenter Server Appliance and a cluster of eight ESXi hosts at a remote site. There is a single 10 GbE connected network at the remote site to support all management services. It is not possible to create additional management networks at the remote site. Virtual machine backups at the site will be dependent on the vCenter Server being available.
Which design decision should the architect make to maximize availability for backups?
- A . vCenter Server High Availability will be configured.
- B . The vCenter Server Appliance will be protected with vSphere Fault Tolerance.
- C . The cluster will be configured to use vSphere DRS in fully automated mode.
- D . The cluster will be configured with vSphere HA and set to restart virtual machines based on guest operating system heartbeat monitoring.
During a transformation project kick-off meeting, an architect highlights specific areas on which to focus while developing the new conceptual design.
Which two of the listed statements are business requirements? (Choose two.)
- A . The project should use the existing storage devices within the data center
- B . Sites must support a network latency of less than 12 ms round-trip time (RTT)
- C . The solution must allow data replication between sites
- D . There is no budget specifically assigned for disaster recovery
- E . There must not be a single point of failure for the virtual infrastructure
A new vSphere platform is being created. The platform will host virtual machines that will run management services and line-of-business applications.
What should the architect consider when designing the number and type of clusters required?
- A . Maximum tolerable downtime
- B . Predicted platform growth
- C . Auditing requirements for the virtual machines
- D . The level of isolation required between virtual machine classifications
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) at an organization raises concerns that their virtual infrastructure environment is vulnerable. Recently, a security-related issue with a virtual machine caused all management services to become unavailable. No budget is available in the short term for additional platform investment.
An architect is asked to review the current environment and make recommendations to mitigate concerns.
A virtualization administrator has provided the following details:
✑ There is a single four node cluster of ESXi servers
✑ There are two, Layer 2, physical network switches connecting resources
✑ The data center network is presented as a single /16 subnet
Given the information provided, which functional requirement should the architect include in the design to mitigate the COOs concerns?
- A . The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to new physical network switches
- B . The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate distributed virtual switches (DVS)
- C . The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate VLANs
- D . The virtual infrastructure environment must connect management services to a vSphere standard switch (VSS)
Following a recent acquisition, the architect learns that both companies use vSphere on-premise and will need to combine the data centers into one. The acquired company’s licenses will not be renewed for cost-savings related to the acquisition. All consumed vSphere licenses must have active support to support line-of-business operations. The merged environment must maintain 25% spare capacity. The architect has a small budget remaining unallocated for hardware.
The architect has calculated that the current vSphere environment can absorb the acquired company’s virtual machines but the cluster will run at 90% memory utilization and at 50% CPU utilization.
Which design decision can the architect make to incorporate the new company’s virtual machines into the combined vSphere environment?
- A . Migrate the acquired company’s virtual machines into the vSphere environment as it will currently fit.
- B . Use the current budget to add memory to the cluster to increase each ESXi host’s capacity and add the new virtual machines.
- C . Purchase extra hosts to add to the cluster in anticipation of adding the acquired company’s virtual machines.
- D . Purchase new licenses for some of the acquired company’s ESXi hosts and add them to the cluster to hold the acquired company’s virtual machines.
An architect is tasked with reviewing the design of a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) for a software development company. The platform is used to developing applications and services. It is important that the customer be able to accurately benchmark performance of developed applications.
The platform has recently commissioned new hosts to update the development cluster.
The development cluster host configuration is:
✑ 4 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets × 16 cores
✑ 512 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
✑ There is no resource contention
The benchmarking cluster host configuration is:
✑ 8 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets × 8 cores
✑ 256 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
✑ There is no resource contention
The customer is developing an application that includes a database virtual machine. The application developer states that the database virtual machine performs as required only when allocated 8 vCPUs 256 GB RAM. The database virtual machine performance meets the required levels when run from the development cluster. Performance benchmarking for the database virtual machine yields highly variable results when run from the benchmarking cluster. The application cannot be released without reliable performance benchmarking data.
What is a possible reason for the difference in performance test results between the development and benchmarking clusters?
- A . The database tier breaches a single NUMA node boundary for the benchmarking cluster
- B . The database tier breaches a single NUMA node boundary for the development cluster
- C . The development cluster can support a lower %Ready time per vCPU
- D . The development cluster has more available RAM per host
A customer has six hosts available in a cluster. When running at full capacity, all virtual machines can be run on two hosts.
How many hosts can the customer place into maintenance mode at the same time while still providing N+2 resiliency to the cluster?
- A . Two
- B . Three
- C . One
- D . None
An organization’s existing vSphere environments are configured for Enhanced Linked Mode. The DevOps team automates the creation of hardened virtual machine images for
various operating systems. Their continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline runs a task at the end of a successful build, which uploads the Open Virtualization Format (OV) image to a sandbox content library, deploys a virtual machine from the image, and then destroys these objects after quality checks are complete.
The following requirements have been noted:
✑ All content libraries and images must be centrally created and managed.
✑ All images must be capable of being updated.
✑ All images must be refreshed and available to subscribed libraries within 24 hours.
✑ All images must provide details of the image contents and versions.
✑ All images must be capable of being reverted to a previous version.
✑ All images must be capable of having the hardware and guest operating system customized during deployment.
Which three recommendations should the architect make to design a content library solution that will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
- A . Create a local content library in the primary vSphere environment and enable publishing.
- B . Create and publish a new subscription to a new subscriber library for each target vSphere environment.
- C . Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as an OVF template to a local content library.
- D . Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as a VM template to a local content library.
- E . Edit the Auto Sync Refresh Interval advanced setting for each subscribed library.
- F . Add a new subscriber library from each vSphere environment.
An architect is designing storage for a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
✑ Asynchronous replication is required between two sites.
✑ The impact on the storage layer should not impact the performance of the compute layer.
✑ Each application tier will require different replication attributes.
✑ Virtual machine live migration across compute and storage must be supported.
✑ Virtual machine aware back up will be leveraged.
✑ Operational management overhead should be minimized.
✑ Operational automation should be supported.
Which storage design recommendations would meet the requirements?
- A . Two new Fibre Channel storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LUN. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.
- B . Two new vSphere clusters enabled with vSAN will be deployed, one at either site. vSAN will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier.
vSphere Replication will be used to replicate the virtual machine data in an asynchronous configuration. - C . Two new ISCSI storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site.
Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LUN. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays. - D . Two new storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site.
vSphere Volumes (vVOLs) will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.
An architect is designing a new backup solution for a vSphere platform that has been recently upgraded to vSphere 7.
The architect wants the backup solution to perform the following:
✑ Full virtual machine image backup and restore
✑ Incremental virtual machine image backup and restore
✑ File level backup and restore within both Windows and Linux virtual machines
✑ LAN-free backup
Which functional requirement should the architect include in the design of the new backup solution?
- A . The backup solution must leverage the VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) framework.
- B . The backup solution must leverage virtual machine snapshots.
- C . The backup solution must leverage VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection.
- D . The backup solution must leverage VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP).
The architect for a large enterprise is tasked with reviewing a proposed design created by a service partner .
Which design elements are expected to be detailed within the physical design section of the documentation?
- A . A design diagram illustrating the configuration and specific attributes, such as IP addresses
- B . A list of requirements, constraints, and risks
- C . A solution architecture diagram with the components and data flow
- D . An entity relationship diagram describing upstream and downstream dependencies for specific service components
Refer to the exhibit.
During a requirements gathering workshop, a customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):
The customer states that there is no application level availability for legacy applications.
Which recommendation could the architect make to meet the customer’s high availability requirements for the legacy applications virtual machines?
- A . Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Disabled
- B . Enable Fault Tolerance
- C . Achieve application availability with snapshots
- D . Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Lowest
An architect makes the design decision to install ESXi on embedded and resilient 8 GB SD cards.
What is the impact of this design decision?
- A . Host profiles must be used for this kind of installation
- B . Scratch partition would need to be created on the external storage
- C . The size of the SD cards is too small and the installation will fail
- D . The vSphere Auto Deploy feature must be enabled on vCenter Server
B
Explanation:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2074026 You can store coredumps on the SD boot media, but refrain from configuring the scratch partition here as the logs are write intensive and can cause the SD card to fail faster resulting in re-installation of ESXi
An architect is preparing a design for a company planning digital transformation. During the requirements gathering workshop, the following requirements (REQ) and constraints (CON) are identified:
✑ REQ01 The platform must host different types of workloads including applications that must be compliant with internal security standard.
✑ REQ02 The infrastructure must initially run 100 virtual machines.
✑ REQ03 Ten of the virtual machines must be compliant with internal security standard.
✑ REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.
✑ CON01 The customer has already purchased the licenses as part of another
project.
✑ CON02 The customer has five physical servers that must be reused.
Additionally, based on resource requirements, four physical servers will be enough to run all workloads .
Which recommendation should the architect make to meet requirements while minimizing project costs?
- A . Use Network I/O Control to ensure the internal security zone has higher share value
- B . Purchase additional servers and plan separate, isolated clusters for workloads that must be compliant with internal security
- C . Use a single cluster and ensure that different security zones are separated at least with dedicated VLANs and firewall
- D . Use a single cluster and configure DRS anti-affinity rules to ensure internal security compliant virtual machines cannot migrate between ESXi hosts.
Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a recoverability non-functional requirement?
- A . The platform must be integrated with existing change control policies.
- B . The platform must be able to support a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of 30 minutes.
- C . Maintenance windows must be scheduled to take place monthly during an established overnight period.
- D . The platform must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the exception of scheduled downtime.
An organization’s data scientists are executing a plan to use machine learning (ML). They must have access to graphical processing unit (GPU) capabilities to execute their computational models when needed. The solutions architect needs to design a solution to ensure that GPUs can be shared by multiple virtual machines.
Which two solutions should the architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
- A . NVIDIA vGPU
- B . AMD MxGPU
- C . vSphere DirectPath I/O
- D . vSGA
- E . vSphere Bitfusion
A,E
Explanation:
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2018/07/using-gpus-with-virtual-machines-on-vsphere-part-1-overview.html
Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center. The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company’s virtual machines.
Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.
How should the architect merge the company’s assets and virtual machines?
- A . Leave the newly acquired company’s assets in its current place
- B . Lift and shift the acquired assets into the data center
- C . Migrate the acquired company’s virtual machines into the existing vSphere environment
- D . Migrate and apply vSphere tags to the acquired company’s virtual machines
As part of a new hybrid cloud initiative for a large financial company, the customer technical
team is presenting an overview of the current state of the infrastructure and their vision for a new solution.
The project team captures notes during the presentation and adds them to the discovery documentation .
Which of the listed statements is a design constraint?
- A . The applications are created in-house with in-guest recovery protection
- B . The maximum tolerable data loss is 10 minutes
- C . The two data center locations have a network latency of 8 ms round-trip time (RTT)
- D . The existing storage is out of maintenance
An architect is designing a new vSphere environment with the following resources:
✑ 600 vCPU
✑ 5,760 GB RAM
Average resource usage is:
✑ 60 vCPU
✑ 1,152 GB RAM
The design must meet the following requirements:
✑ The environment has the ability to burst by 25%.
✑ Each host can schedule 36 vCPUs and has 512 GB RAM.
✑ Management overhead is 20%.
What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the design requirements?
- A . Three
- B . Five
- C . Four
- D . Two
An architect is designing a new VMware solution for a customer that has a number of different resource profiles.
The following are the business requirements for the design:
The solution must support virtual machines with the following storage profiles:
-Write-intensive
-Backup
-Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) archive
✑ The solution must support migration of virtual machine disks between storage profiles.
✑ The WORM archive data must be located at an isolated secure site.
✑ The backup storage array must only be connected to a backup media server.
✑ All data should be recoverable from backup.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the business requirements?
- A . The solution will leverage a single storage array for the WORM archive and write-intensive storage profiles
- B . The solution will leverage the same array for the backup and write-intensive storage profiles
- C . The solution will leverage a different array for each storage profile
- D . The solution will leverage a single storage array for all storage profiles
A customer is deploying a new cluster and wants to be able to patch and update two hosts in parallel. The cluster must be able to maintain N+1 resiliency across the remaining hosts while patching activities are performed. The current expected utilization of the platform requires a minimum of two hosts to support all of the virtual machines.
What is the minimum number of hosts the customer will require in the cluster in order to meet the required resiliency level?
- A . Five
- B . Six
- C . Four
- D . Seven
The storage team at an organization is planning to migrate from an older Fibre Channel storage environment to a new environment using IP-based storage.
Which two switch features or characteristics are appropriate for IP storage networks? (Choose two.)
- A . Fabric extending devices
- B . Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- C . 2:1 or greater bandwidth oversubscription for 10 GbE switches
- D . Non-blocking switch
- E . Deep or ultra buffered switches
D,E
Explanation: https://www.arista.com/en/solutions/ip-storage-network-infrastructures
An architect is reviewing a physical storage design. The customer has specified that a new active-passive based storage array will be used to provide storage for the vSphere clusters.
Which configuration should for the architect recommended?
- A . VMW_SATP_LOCAL
- B . VMW_PSP_MRU
- C . VMW_SATP_DEFAULT_AA
- D . VMW_PSP_FIXED
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following information:
✑ Each host has 2 × 10 GbE NIC
✑ EtherChannel is not currently configured
✑ No changes can be made to the physical network
✑ Network throughput must be prioritized for defined critical services
Which two recommendations should the architect make with regard to virtual networking? (Choose two.)
- A . Use Route Based on Physical NIC Load.
- B . Use Network I/O Control with Shares.
- C . Use Network I/O Control with Reservation.
- D . Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).
- E . Use Network I/O Control with Limits.
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as manageability non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)
- A . ESXi clusters must scale when compute resources are sustained above 70% for five business days
- B . vSphere Fault Tolerance must be supported to improve application uptime
- C . ESXi host updates must be installed within one week of release
- D . The vSphere environment must support administrator password rotation
- E . ESXi clusters must scale to 500 concurrent virtual machines
An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer based on the following information:
✑ The solution must use investments in existing storage array that supports both block and file storage.
✑ The solution must support the ability to migrate workloads between hosts within a cluster.
✑ The solution must support resource management priorities.
✑ The solution must support the ability to connect virtual machines directly to LUNs.
✑ The solution should use existing IPv4 based network infrastructure.
✑ There is no budget for additional physical hardware.
Which two design decisions could the architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
- A . The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel (FC)
- B . The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS 3
- C . The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
- D . The ESXi hosts will leverage iSCSI
- E . The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS 4.1
B,D
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-8A929FE4-1207-4CC5-A086-7016D73C328F.html
Starting from vSphere 7.0, VMware no longer supports software FCoE in production environments. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-6B49866F-7005-4099-84AC-4FB2A1A91F64.html
A customer requires the use of data encryption to ensure data is not accessible when a drive is removed from the primary storage platform. However, there is also a requirement to use deduplication and compression against all workloads in order to conserve space.
Which solution meets the customer requirements?
- A . Data-in-transit encryption
- B . OS-level encryption
- C . Encrypted backups
- D . Array-based encryption
An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
✑ The environment must support 5,000 virtual machines.
✑ The environment will be built initially using 350 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?
- A . Large
- B . Small
- C . Tiny
- D . Medium
A new real-time financial service application is being developed by the engineering team at a financial firm and will be released as a public Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. The solutions architect has designed and deployed a new vSphere environment and the supporting network infrastructure for hosting all public services. ESXi hosts are configured to use Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and a local stratum-1 network time server.
Application provisioning and scaling will be managed by VMware vRealize Automation and can be run on Microsoft Windows or multiple distributions of Linux.
Which three recommendations should the architect include in the design to ensure that the service maintain timekeeping within an accuracy of one second? (Choose three.)
- A . Use Microsoft Windows Server as the guest operating system.
- B . Configure the chrony time-sync agent on each virtual machine guest operating system.
- C . Set the virtual hardware device to use Host System Time (NTP) for each virtual machine running the application.
- D . Add a precision clock virtual device to each virtual machine running the application.
- E . Use a Linux distribution as the guest operating system.
- F . Add a virtual watchdog timer (VWDT) device to each virtual machine running the application.
Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the application design documentation?
- A . The application must be hosted with redundancy levels of N+1 or better.
- B . Penetration testing must be executed quarterly with a pass rate of 80% or higher.
- C . The application must be capable of handling 200 transactions per second.
- D . Administrators must monitor the network traffic of the desired systems.