3V0-21.21 Advanced Design VMware vSphere 7.x Questions and Answers

An architect is designing a new greenfield environment that will install ESXi on local disks. There is a requirement to streamline initial and future installations of ESXi hosts.

Which configuration option should the architect recommend for installing ESXi hosts to meet these requirements?

Application owners require support of a Microsoft Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC).

Their current environment consists of the following components:

vSphere 7.0 and vSAN 7.0

External array supporting NFS 3.0/4.1, Server Message Block (SMB) 2.1

10 GbE storage connectivity for all devices

The solution architect is tasked with coming up with a solution to meet this requirement while utilizing their existing investments.

Which two recommendations could the architect make? (Choose two.)

An architect is designing a series of new vSphere environments for an organization. The environments will be deployed in their US-East and US-West region data centers. Each data center may have one or more dedicated vSphere environments. Only the vSphere environments within a data center will be configured with Enhanced Linked Mode. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has authorized the use of VMware vRealize Automation Cloud for automation. The build team creates standardized virtual machine images for various operating systems in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and publishes the latest version on an as-needed basis to an internal HTTPS-accessible repository.

The architect must design a content library topology that meets the following requirements:

A localized content library must be available in each data center.

Each content library must be updated when an image is updated and released by the build team.

The cloud automation platform must be able to consume the latest approved content library images.

It must leverage the existing build team processes.

What should the architect recommend to meet the requirements?

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for an organization is concerned about the security posture of the operating system images that are used for the provisioning of their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The organization is in a growth period. The organization is opening a new data center to launch its next phase of new SaaS-based solutions.

The DevOps team currently creates encrypted virtual machine (VM) templates that are used for various operating systems and adds these to the vSphere inventory. The DevOps team already uses a published content library and has been granted a role with the ability to add and delete library items.

The following requirements have been noted:

Impacts to the DevOps team’s operational processes must be kept to a minimum.

The DevOps team must be able to regularly check out a copy of the image for updates and check in a new version of the image.

Images must be synchronized from the primary data center to the new data center.

Which three recommendations should the architect make to design a content library solution that will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer to meet the following requirements:

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 32G fabric infrastructure.

There is no budget for additional physical hardware.

Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?

An architect is designing the expansion of an existing vSphere 7 environment. The customer is requesting a design for a new cluster to support the anticipated future business growth. The requirements specified for the existing environment design must be considered when designing the new cluster.

The existing design has the following requirements:

REQ01 The environment has an availability target of 99.5% for all infrastructure.

REQ02 The recovery time objective (RTO) for Tier 1 virtual machines is one hour.

REQ03 Windows and Linux virtual machines must reside on separate clusters.

REQ04 Access to the management cluster within the environment must be controlled.

Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a functional requirement?

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?

Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the application design documentation?

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?

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?

An architect is considering placement of virtual machines within an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC).

During the discovery phase, the following information is documented:

Cluster One

Six ESXi hosts

vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1

Proactive HA is enabled and set to automated

Fully Automated vSphere DRS

Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is enabled

Cluster Two

Eight ESXi hosts

vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1

Proactive HA is disabled

Partially Automated vSphere DRS

Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled

Cluster Three

Three ESXi hosts

vSphere HA with admission control is disabled

Proactive HA is not supported

Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled

Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1

Memory sharing techniques should not be used

Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure if resources are available

Automated initial virtual machine placement

Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2

Memory sharing techniques should not be used

Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure regardless of available resources

Automated initial virtual machine placement

Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements? (Choose two.)

An architect is designing a solution based on the following information:

Each ESXi host has a single physical NIC with two 10 Gbps ports.

There is a performance-based service-level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 15 Gbps bandwidth for production virtual machines at all times.

There is no budget to purchase additional hardware.

The hardware replacement SLA is based on a delivery agreement of two business days.

Which recommendation for the configuration of vSphere High Availability (HA) should the architect include in the design?

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?

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 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?

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?

An architect decides to separate virtual desktops and application servers into separate vSphere clusters to meet security and management requirements.

What are two implications of this design decision? (Choose two.)

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?

An architect is creating a network design for a new vSphere environment.

Based on customer requirements, the environment must support the following types of traffic:

Management

vMotion

vSAN

Fault Tolerance

Virtual machine traffic, which cannot be impacted by other types of traffic

Which design recommendation can the architect make for a resilient infrastructure with vSphere network service tiering?

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?

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement:

A new vSphere platform must be designed securely and all interfaces must be protected against potential snooping.

How should this non-functional security requirement be documented?

An architect is tasked with designing a greenfield VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that will be used to deliver a private cloud service for a customer.

During the initial meeting with the service owner and business sponsor, the customer has provided the following information to help inform the design:

The solution must support the concurrent running of 1,000 virtual machines

The production environment must be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers All virtual machines must be capable of running in either data center.

The two data centers are currently connected to each other through a single but diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency link.

The link between the two data centers is capable of supporting a round-trip time (RTT) of 150 ms The existing server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be deployed using vSAN ReadyNodes

The service owner has stated that it is critical to ensure the availability target of 99.9% All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service

The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is five minutes

The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is four hours

Which two elements represent risks to the successful delivery of this solution? (Choose two.)

During a requirements gathering workshop to design a physical to virtual migration, the customer provides the following information:

There is no physical firewall in the data center with no anticipated plans for a future network refresh.

Leveraging the virtual infrastructure to mitigate the lack of network security must be addressed in the design.

All physical servers to be migrated exist on the same VLAN.

Which recommendation should the architect make to address the customer requirement with regard to virtual networking?