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.)
Answer : BDE
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?
Answer : A
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.)
Answer : ABF
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?
Answer : B
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?
Answer : D
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?
Answer : B
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?
Answer : D
What are two valid use cases for VMware Cloud Foundation remote clusters? (Choose two.)
Answer : BC
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?
Answer : A
What is a benefit of using workload domains in VMware Cloud Foundation?
Answer : C
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?
Answer : B
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?
Answer : A
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?
Answer : B
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.)
Answer : AC
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?
Answer : A
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