What should an administrator configure to achieve this goal?

A customer is running a 4-node cluster for their Windows and Linux workloads. To keep the licensing costs at a minimum, the customer only licensed two nodes for Windows and two nodes for Linux within the cluster. Now, the administrator needs to ensure the workloads only run on their assigned nodes.

What should an administrator configure to achieve this goal?
A . Operational Intent – Clusters
B . Business Intent – Clusters
C . Operational Intent – Hosts
D . Business Intent – Hosts

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Answer: B

Explanation:

According to the VMware vRealize Operations User Guide1, business intent is a feature that allows the administrator to define the desired state and behavior of the clusters and hosts in the environment based on business objectives and constraints. Business intent can be used to optimize the placement and balance of workloads across clusters and hosts, as well as to enforce license compliance and availability requirements.

One of the types of business intent that can be configured in vRealize Operations is Business Intent – Clusters. This type of business intent allows the administrator to assign tags to clusters and virtual machines, and then create rules that match the tags to ensure that the virtual machines are placed on the appropriate clusters. For example, the administrator can tag two clusters as Windows and two clusters as Linux, and then tag the virtual machines accordingly. Then, the administrator can create rules that match the Windows tag and the Linux tag, and set the enforcement mode to Mandatory. This will ensure that the Windows workloads only run on the Windows clusters, and the Linux workloads only run on the Linux clusters.

Therefore, the correct answer is B. Business Intent – Clusters, as this is the type of business intent

that should be configured by the administrator to achieve the goal of ensuring the workloads only run on their assigned nodes.

References:

1: VMware vRealize Operations User Guide, https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.5/vrealize-operations-manager-85-user-guide.pdf, page 49-51, 54-55