Question 11

A VMware Service Provider is tasked with delivering a solution for continuous availability for a subset of Tier 1 virtual machines (VMs) and vApps running in their vSAN environment. The VMs make up a mission-critical application and there can be no data loss in the event of an outage at their primary data center. In the event of a regional outage, they have established a 10-minute recovery point objective (RPO). Failover/failback to the third site must be automated.
They have the following in place:
Two local data centers (primary and secondary) connected with 100 Gb dedicated fiber
2ms round-trip time (RTT) latency between the sites A third data center located on another power grid
70ms latency between the primary and secondary data centers
Matching storage arrays at all locations
Which two solutions could be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
  • Question 12

    A customer requests a review of its current vSphere platform design.
    The following information is noted:
    There are three different workload profiles for the virtual machines:
    Tier-1 virtual machines operate resource-intensive applications and require dedicated allocations for CPU and RAM.
    Tier-2 virtual machines operate internet-facing applications and require access to externally facing networks.
    Tier-3 virtual machines operate platform management tools such as vCenter Server and have different lifecycle management requirements.
    Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines are all hosted on a single large vSphere cluster.
    The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has raised concerns that hosting externally facing applications alongside management tools does not meet internal compliance standards.
    The Operations team has raised concerns about Tier-1 virtual machines negatively impacting the performance of vCenter Server.
    The Operations lead has stated that management changes have consistently been rejected by application teams.
    As a result of the review, which recommendation should the architect make regarding the design of this platform?
  • Question 13

    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?
  • Question 14

    An architect is designing a new greenfield environment with 600 ESXi hosts in an automated fashion. The engineering department already has a PXE Boot server, TFTP server, and DHCP server set up with an NFS mount for their current Linux servers.
    The architect must be able to demonstrate and meet a security requirement to have all infrastructure processes separated.
    Which recommendation should the architect make for the ESXi host deployment?
  • Question 15

    A customer has a database cluster with 40/60 read/write ratio and a high IOPs requirement with no contention on an all-flash vSAN cluster.
    Which two storage settings should be configured for best performance? (Choose two.)