An architect is reviewing a physical storage design. The customer has specified that storage DRS will be used for ease of operational management for capacity and performance.

Which recommendation should the architect include in the design?

A. Create smaller datastores to balance space with Storage DRS

B. Use a larger number of storage profiles (varied disk speeds and RAID levels) to improve performance

C. Create larger datastores to balance space with Storage DRS

D. Create more datastores within each Storage DRS cluster to balance space and performance

Which design decision must be included in a design to allow for the deployment of a minimum supported configuration of vCenter High Availability (HA)?

A. A new subnet will be provisioned for vCenter HA services

B. A vSphere cluster will consist of more than three nodes

C. The deployed vCenter Server will be Tiny

D. The vCenter HA network will support a latency of less than 50 ms

An architect is designing storage for a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:

Asynchronous replication is required between two sites.

The impact on the storage layer should not impact the performance of the compute layer.

Each application tier will require different replication attributes.

Virtual machine live migration across compute and storage must be supported.

Virtual machine aware back up will be leveraged.

Operational management overhead should be minimized.

Operational automation should be supported.

Which storage design recommendations would meet the requirements?

A. Two new Fibre Channel storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LUN. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

B. Two new vSphere clusters enabled with vSAN will be deployed, one at either site. vSAN will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier. vSphere Replication will be used to replicate the virtual machine data in an asynchronous configuration.

C. Two new ISCSI storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LUN. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

D. Two new storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. vSphere Volumes (vVOLs) will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

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 initially support the concurrent running of 300 production and 600 development virtual

machines.

The production environment should be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers.

The development environment must be vSphere-based but does not have to be deployed on-premises.

The two data centers are connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and

low latency links.

The customer's server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be

based on blade architecture only.

The service owner has said that is important to ensure that neither the availability target of 99.5% nor the

resource capacity is affected when the operations team completes maintenance activities, such as the

monthly software patching and ad-hoc hardware break/fix.

All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service.

The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is four hours.

The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is 24 hours.

Given the information from the customer, which two would be classified as assumptions within the design? (Choose two.)

A. The backup service will store data in a secure facility

B. The backup service has sufficient capacity for the new requirements

C. The customer will update their hardware standard to support rack mount servers

D. All virtual machines will be deployed with the same resource profile for production and development

E. The clusters will have a minimum redundancy of N+1

A customer provides the following list of requirements for their vSphere platform:

REQ01 The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure.

REQ02 The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days.

REQ03 All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes.

REQ04 The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts.

REQ05 The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines.

Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

A. The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure

B. The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts

C. The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines

D. All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes

E. The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days

A customer is deploying a new cluster and wants to be able to patch and update two hosts in parallel. The cluster must be able to maintain N+1 resiliency across the remaining hosts while patching activities are performed. The current expected utilization of the platform requires a minimum of two hosts to support all of the virtual machines.

What is the minimum number of hosts the customer will require in the cluster in order to meet the required resiliency level?

A. Five

B. Six

C. Four

D. Seven

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?

A. A design diagram illustrating the configuration and specific attributes, such as IP addresses

B. A list of requirements, constraints, and risks

C. A solution architecture diagram with the components and data flow

D. An entity relationship diagram describing upstream and downstream dependencies for specific service components

A architect is designing a new VMware software-designed data center (SDDC) using vSphere 7 to meet the following requirements:

The SDDC must be deployed at two locations: primary and secondary. vSphere Replication must be used to replicate virtual machines between the two locations. Site Recovery Manager must be used to orchestrate disaster recovery (DR) activities. One single-sign on (SSO) domain must be used to authenticate access at both locations.

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

A. A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to each site. Unique SSO domains will be created per site.

B. A vCenter Server will be installed on Windows virtual machines deployed to both sites.

C. A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to each site.

D. A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to the primary site only.

An architect is designing a new backup solution for a vSphere platform that has been recently upgraded to vSphere 7.

The architect wants the backup solution to perform the following:

Full virtual machine image backup and restore Incremental virtual machine image backup and restore File level backup and restore within both Windows and Linux virtual machines LAN-free backup

Which functional requirement should the architect include in the design of the new backup solution?

A. The backup solution must leverage the VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) framework.

B. The backup solution must leverage virtual machine snapshots.

C. The backup solution must leverage VMware vSphere Storage APIs - Data Protection.

D. The backup solution must leverage VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP).

An architect has 50 ESXi hosts to deploy and DHCP servers are not allowed on any network. Which automated host deployment method should the architect use?

A. Stateless vSphere Auto Deploy

B. Stateful vSphere Auto Deploy

C. Scripted installation

D. Interactive installation