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An architect is holding a requirements workshop with a customer for a new vSphere solution design. The customer states that the solution should make it easy to identify and apply patches or updates to ESXi hosts, including the ability to pre-stage the files on the ESXi hosts.
Which design quality is being referenced by the customer?
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.)
A company is expanding an existing vSphere deployment to meet new demands from the business. The following requirements have been identified for the expanded infrastructure:
REQ001- It must support enhanced vMotion compatibility (EVC) mode for Intel "Nehalem" Generation (Intel Xeon Core i7) processors.
REQ002- It must be accessible via an API.
REQ003- It must support a variety of operating systems.
REQ004- It must notify administrators whenever a virtual machine is connected to more than one network.
Which requirement would be classified as a technical (formerly non-functional) requirement?
An architect is designing a vSphere-based private cloud solution to support the following customer requirements:
The solution should support running 5,000 concurrent production compute workloads across the primary and secondary sites.
The solution should support running 1,000 development compute workloads within the secondary site.
The solution should support up to 50 management workloads across the primary and secondary site.
The solution must ensure the isolation of virtual infrastructure management operations between management and compute workloads.
The solution must ensure that the hosting of any virtual infrastructure management workloads does not impact the amount of capacity available for compute workloads.
The solution must ensure that all production compute workloads are physically isolated from development compute workloads.
The solution must ensure that the operational management of compute workloads in the secondary site is possible in the event of a disaster affecting the primary site.
How many VMware vCenter instances will the architect need to include in the design to meet these requirements?
An architect is working with stakeholders to define requirements for architecting a new VMware vSphere design.
What are two strategies for engaging with stakeholders to achieve this goal? (Choose two.)
An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The customer has stated that the solution will be used to host different types of applications, some of which have special considerations. The customer has provided the following information in relation to the special considerations:
The applications are sensitive to the time it takes for CPUs to be accessible to process instructions
The applications send and receive large amounts of data across the network
The applications are sensitive to the time it takes for the data to be sent and received at the destination
What could the architect include in the design for these considerations?
An architect is discussing recoverability considerations for a new vSphere solution as part of a requirements workshop. The customer has informed the architect that the company policy is to not perform backups of ESXi hosts due to their selected backup software not supporting the ESXi software. In the past, when hosts have experienced failures, the hosts have been reinstalled from the VMware provided ESXi image and manually configured by an administrator. The customer asks the architect to design a solution that will reduce the manual effort required by the administrator to return a failed host to service.
What could the architect include in the design to meet the customer's request?
An architect is designing an upgrade to an existing vSphere environment. The project has been created to provide options for enabling growth and scalability, without increasing the data center footprint. The CIO has also tasked the architect with updating data protection operations, from the current agent-based backup approach.
During a workshop with key stakeholders, the following information has been noted:
The existing vSphere environment uses an external fibre attached storage array for the vSphere environment
The storage array is connected via 4 Gbps fibre cards host bus adaptors (HBAs)
The storage array does not support VMware Storage APIs—Data Protection (VADP)
The architecture must support scaling virtual machines CPU, memory, and storage
The environment will grow by an additional 20% virtual machines year over year
Only two additional racks of equipment can be provisioned
Which design choice will meet these requirements?
An architect is designing a new vSphere architecture and notes the following information during the design workshops:
vSphere distributed switches (VDS) will be used for all vSphere clusters. Switch naming will be based on cluster name, resource type function and switch number.
Port group naming will be based on function, role and VLAN number range.
Each host has two physical network cards each with two NIC ports:
- Card A aligns to vmnic0 and vmnic1
- Card B aligns to vmnic2 and vmnic3
The architecture must provide resilient network connections.
Management Services will use VLAN ID 43.
Virtual machines access VLAN ID 100.
The vSphere infrastructure will use a hyper-converged storage architecture.
How should the architect document the VDS physical design based on the noted information?
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?
An architect is tasked with designing a new vSphere environment for a customer. The new environment must:
Be standardized, repeatable, and consistent
Contain the same common heterogenous components that run from commercial hardware across an on-premises, edge, and broad hybrid cloud eco-system
Provide intrinsic and intelligent security in every component from the hypervisor to the storage, networking, and management layers
Which VMware solution will satisfy these requirements?
An architect is designing the virtual networking components of a vSphere-based solution that will provide an environment for the development of a new latency sensitive stock trading application.
The following information was identified within the initial meeting with the customer:
The customer has vCenter Standard and vSphere Standard licenses left over from a previous project.
The customer's CFO has approved budget for additional purchases, if required.
The following requirements were also identified during the meeting:
The solution must support 500 development workloads concurrently running in the secondary site.
The solution must support the ability to complete all vSphere Operational Management centrally.
The solution must ensure business-critical applications are not impacted by vSphere system-level operations.
Given the requirements, the architect has decided on a single 20-node cluster for development.
Which three additional design decisions should the architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
An architect is tasked with designing a new workload domain in an existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment. The customer requirement is to physically separate the NSX host overlay network traffic from other management networks flows.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet this requirement?
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?
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.)
Which two vSphere cluster-related design details would an architect document in a physical design? (Choose two.)
An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The customer has provided the following information to describe how the solution will be used:
The solution will host development workloads
Administrators will utilize snapshots frequently, with snapshots sometimes retained for extended periods of time
Some of the workloads are sensitive to latency on the I/O of the storage
Storage for the workloads will be provided by a physical array
The physical array does not include a storage provider
All workloads must be hosted on the solution, there are no other vSphere environments available for use
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the needs of the customer?
An architect is documenting the design decisions for a new vSphere solution. The following design decision has been made:
Create a separate vSphere cluster for the management workloads
What could the architect include as justification for this design decision?
An architect is tasked with devising a vSphere design strategy that will allow the company to quickly scale global data center functionality when a new location is identified.
The following requirements must be met:
The solution must include VMware licensing costs.
The design must keep data locally to each specific location.
The design must utilize current company processes around vSphere.
Any new global location must be functional within one month of identification.
Which design strategy will meet these requirements?
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?
An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The solution will be used to host workloads that have multiple dependencies. The customer provides the following information regarding the workloads:
Workload 1: Self-Service Portal
Workload 2: Database
Workload 3: Identity Broker
Workload 4: Reporting Tool
Workload 5: Management Tool
Application A is formed of workloads 1 and 2 and has a dependency on workload 3
Application B is formed of workloads 2 and 4 and has a dependency on workload 3
Application C is formed of workload 5 and has a dependency on workload 4
How should the architect document the vSphere HA requirements to ensure that all of the applications can be recovered in the event of a host failure while observing the dependencies?
TESTED 29 Aug 2025