Which virtual machine (VM) sizing strategy will provide the highest level of uptime, individual VM performance, and failover capacity?

A developer is tasked with building an application to process shipping requests. The developer is consulting the vSphere team to determine failover options and performance best practices.

• The development team is providing three physical ESXi hosts with 8 CPU cores and 256G8 of RAM per host.

• The developer does NOT know how many virtual machines they will require.

Which virtual machine (VM) sizing strategy will provide the highest level of uptime, individual VM performance, and failover capacity?

A. A few large 8 vCPU VMs per host protected by vSphere HA.

B. Many small 1 vCPU VMs participating in an OS level clustered application protected by vSphere HA.

C. A few large 8 vCPU VMs per host protected by vSphere Fault Tolerance.

D. Many small l vCPU VMs participating in an OS level clustered application protected by vSphere Fault Tolerance.

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Answer: A