2V0-621 Flashcards

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An administrator wants to provide users restricted access. The users should only be able to perform the following tasks:

  • Create and consolidate virtual machine snapshots
  • Add/Remove virtual disks
  • Snapshot Management

Which default role in vCenter Server would meet the administrator’s requirements for the users?

A

A. Virtual machine power user

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Which two roles can be modified? (Choose two.)

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B. Network Administrator

C. Datastore Consumer

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An administrator with global administrator privileges creates a custom role but fails to assign any privileges to it.

Which two privileges would the custom role have? (Choose two.)

A

A. System.View

B. System.Anonymous

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An administrator wishes to give a user the ability to manage snapshots for virtual machines.

Which privilege does the administrator need to assign to the user?

A

A. Datastore.Allocate Space

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An object has inherited permissions from two parent objects.

What is true about the permissions on the object?

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B. The permissions are combined from both parent objects.

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What is the highest object level from which a virtual machine can inherit privileges?

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C. Data Center Folder

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Which three Authorization types are valid in vSphere? (Choose three.)

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A. Group Membership in vsphere.local
B. Global
D. vCenter Server

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Which three components should an administrator select when configuring vSphere permissions? (Choose three.)

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A. Inventory Object
B. Role
C. User/Group

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In which two vsphere.local groups should an administrator avoid adding members? (Choose two.)

A

A. SolutionUsers

B. Administrators

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An administrator has configured three vCenter Servers and vRealize Orchestrator within a Platform Services Controller domain, and needs to grant a user privileges that span all environments.

Which statement best describes how the administrator would accomplish this?

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A. Assign a Global Permission to the user.

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Which two methods are recommended for managing the VMware Directory Service? (Choose two).

A

A. Utilize the vmdir command.

B. Manage through the vSphere Web Client.

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What are two sample roles that are provided with vCenter Server by default? (Choose two.)

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A. Virtual machine User

B. Network Administrator

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An administrator would like to use the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) as an Intermediate Certificate Authority (CA). The first two steps performed are:

  • Replace the Root Certificate
  • Replace Machine Certificates (Intermediate CA)

Which two steps would need to be performed next? (Choose two.)

A

A. Replace Solution User Certificates (Intermediate CA)

C. Replace the VMware Directory Service Certificate

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Which three options are available for ESXi Certificate Replacement? (Choose three.)

A

A. VMware Certificate Authority mode
B. Custom Certificate Authority mode
C. Thumbprint mode

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Lockdown Mode has been enabled on an ESXi 6.x host and users are restricted from logging into the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI).

Which two statements are true given this configuration? (Choose two.)

A

A. A user granted administrative privileges in the Exception User list can login.

B. A user defined in the DCUI.Access without administrative privileges can login.

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16
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Strict Lockdown Mode has been enabled on an ESXi host.

Which action should an administrator perform to allow ESXi Shell or SSH access for users with administrator privileges?

A

B. Add the users to Exception Users and enable the service.

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An administrator wants to configure an ESXi 6.x host to use Active Directory (AD) to manage users and groups. The AD domain group ESX Admins is planned for administrative access to the host.

Which two conditions should be considered when planning this configuration? (Choose two.)

A

A. If administrative access for ESX Admins is not required, this setting can be altered.

C. An ESXi host provisioned with Auto Deploy cannot store AD credentials.

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18
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Which password meets ESXi 6.x host password requirements?

A

A. 8kMVnn2x!

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An administrator would like to use a passphrase for their ESXi 6.x hosts which has these characteristics:

  • Minimum of 21 characters
  • Minimum of 2 words

Which advanced options must be set to allow this passphrase configuration to be used?

A

B. retry=3 min=disabled, disabled, 21, 7, 7 passphrase=2

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20
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Which Advanced Setting should be created for the vCenter Server to change the expiration policy of the vpxuser password?

A

A. VimPasswordExpirationInDays

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An administrator has been instructed to secure existing virtual machines in vCenter Server.

Which two actions should the administrator take to secure these virtual machines? (Choose two.)

A

B. Restrict Remote Console access

D. Prevent use of Independent Non-Persistent virtual disks

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An administrator has recently audited the environment and found numerous virtual machines with sensitive data written to the configuration files.

To prevent this in the future, which advanced parameter should be applied to the virtual machines?

A

A. isolation.tools.setinfo.disable = true

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23
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Which two statements are correct regarding vSphere certificates? (Choose two.)

A

B. ESXi host upgrades preserve the existing SSL certificate.

C. ESXi hosts have assigned SSL certificates from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)

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Which three options are available for replacing vCenter Server Security Certificates? (Choose three.)

A

A. Replace with Certificates signed by the VMware Certificate Authority.

B. Make VMware Certificate Authority an Intermediate Certificate Authority.

C. Do not use VMware Certificate Authority, provision your own Certificates.

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25
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When attempting to log in with the vSphere Web Client, users have reported the error:
Incorrect Username/Password
The administrator has configured the Platform Services Controller Identity Source as:

  • Type. Active Directory as an LDAP Server
  • Domain: vmware.com
  • Alias: VMWARE
  • Default Domain: Yes

Which two statements would explain why users cannot login to the vSphere Web Client? (Choose two.)

A

A. Users are typing the password incorrectly.

B. Users are in a forest that has 1-way trust.

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Which group in the vsphere.local domain will have administrator privileges for the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)?

A

B. CAAdmins

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27
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Which Platform Service Controller Password Policy determines the number of days a password can exist before the user must change it?

A

A. Maximum Lifetime

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An administrator is configuring the clock tolerance for the Single Sign-On token configuration policy and wants to define the time skew tolerance between a client and the domain controller clock.

Which time measurement is used for the value?

A

A. Milliseconds

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Which VMware Single Sign-On component issues Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens?

A

A. VMware Security Token Service

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30
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Which two are valid Identity Sources when configuring vCenter Single Sign-On? (Choose two.)

A

C. OpenLDAP

D. LocalOS

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An administrator needs to create an Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) Identity Source on a newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA).
Which two actions will accomplish this? (Choose two.)

A

A. Use a Service Principal Name (SPN) to configure the Identity Source.

C. Join the VCSA to Active Directory and configure the Identity Source with a Machine Account.

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An administrator is creating a new Content Library. It will subscribe to another remote Content Library without authentication enabled.

What information from the published library will they need in order to complete the subscription?

A

A. Subscription URL

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An administrator is assigning a user the Content Library administrator role. The user will only be creating the library for a single vCenter Server.

What is the lowest level of the permission heirarchy that this role can be granted to the user and still allow them to create a Content Library?

A

A. Global

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34
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Which three connection types are supported between a remote site and vCloud Air? (Choose three.)

A

A. Secure Internet Connectivity
B. Private Connect
E. Secure VPN

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35
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An administrator is adding an Active Directory over LDAP Identity Source for vCenter Single Sign- On, as indicated in the Exhibit.

What is the correct value to configure for the Domain alias?

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A. The domain’s NetBIOS name.

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36
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An administrator decides to change the root password for an ESXi 6.x host to comply with the company’s security policies.

What are two ways that this can be accomplished? (Choose two.)

A

A. Use the Direct Console User Interface to change the password.

B. Use the passwd command in the ESXi Shell.

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An administrator connects to an ESXi 6.x host console in order to shutdown the host.

Which option in the Direct Console User Interface would perform this task?

A

A. Press the F12 key

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38
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An administrator is able to manage an ESXi 6.x host connected to vCenter Server using the vSphere Web Client but is unable to connect to the host directly.

Which action should the administrator take to correct this behavior?

A

B. Disable Lockdown Mode on the ESXi host through vCenter Server.

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An administrator needs two vCenter Servers to be visible within a single vSphere Web Client session.

Which two vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller (PSC) configurations would accomplish this? (Choose two.)

A

A. Install a single PSC with two vCenter Servers registered to it.

B. Install two PSCs in the same Single Sign-On domain with one vCenter Server registered to each PSC.

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40
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An administrator wants to clone a virtual machine using the vSphere Client.

Which explains why the Clone option is missing?

A

A. The vSphere Client is directly connected to the ESXi host.

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An administrator creates a custom ESXi firewall rule using an XML file, however the rules do not appear in the vSphere Web Client.

Which action should the administrator take to correct the problem?

A

B. Load the new rules using esxcli network firewall refresh.

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A common root user account has been configured for a group of ESXi 6.x hosts.

Which two steps should be taken to mitigate security risks associated with this configuration? (Choose two.)

A

B. Set a complex password for the root account and limit its use.

C. Use ESXi Active Directory capabilities to assign users the administrator role.

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43
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Which two advanced features should be disabled for virtual machines that are only hosted on a vSphere system? (Choose two.)

A

A. isolation.tools.unity.push.update.disable

B. isolation.tools.ghi.launchmenu.change

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To reduce the attack vectors for a virtual machine, which two settings should an administrator set to false? (Choose two.)

A

A. ideX:Y.present

B. serial.present

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Which two groups of settings should be reviewed when attempting to increase the security of virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)

A

A. Disable hardware devices

B. Disable unexposed features

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46
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THIS HOST HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK REDUNDANCY

An administrator is changing the settings on a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). During this process, the ESXi Management IP address is set to an address which can no longer communicate with the vCenter Server.

What is the most likely outcome of this action?

A

B. The host will automatically detect the communication issue and revert the change.

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Which secondary Private VLAN (PVLAN) type can communicate and send packets to an Isolated PVLAN?

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C. Promiscuous

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Which three traffic types can be configured for dedicated Vmkernel adapters? (Choose three.)

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B. vMotion traffic

C. vSphere Replication NFC traffic

D. Provisioning traffic

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What are two limitations of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)

A

B. Software iSCSI multipathing is not compatible.

D. It does not support configuration through Host Profiles.

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Which two features are deprecated in Network I/O Control 3 (NIOC3)? (Choose two.)

A

A. Class Of Service (COS) Tagging

C. User-defined network resource pools

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51
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An administrator runs the command esxcli storage core device list and sees the following output:

mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Display Name: RAID 5 (mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0) Has Settable Display Name: false SizE. 40960 Device Type: Direct-Access Multipath Plugin: NMP Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Status: off Is Local: true

What can be determined by this output?

A

B. The device is in a Permanent Device Loss (PDL) state.

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An administrator notices that there is an all paths down (APD) event occurring for the software FcoE storage.
What is a likely cause?

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A. Spanning Tree Protocol is enabled on the network ports.

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Which two statements are true regarding iSCSI adapters? (Choose two.)

A

A. Software iSCSI adapters require vmkernel networking.

B. Independent Hardware iSCSI adapters offload processing from the ESXi host.

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54
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Which command shows the Physical Uplink status for a vmnic?

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B. esxcli network nic list

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An administrator creates a Private VLAN with a Primary VLAN ID of 2. The administrator then creates three Private VLANs as follows:

  • Marketing
  • PVLAN ID. 4
  • PVLAN Type. Isolated
  • Accounting
  • PVLAN ID. 5
  • PVLAN Type. Community - Secretary
  • PVLAN ID. 17
  • PVLAN Type. Isolated

Users in the Accounting PVLAN are reporting problems communicating with servers in the Marketing PVLAN.

Which two actions could the administrator take to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)

A

A. Change the PVLAN type for the Accounting network to Promiscuous.

B. Change the PVLAN ID for the Accounting network to 2.

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What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)

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B. Controls and isolates paths in a fabric.

D. Can be used to separate different environments.

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Which two considerations should an administrator keep in mind when booting from Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? (Choose two.)

A

C. Multipathing is not supported at pre-boot.

D. Boot LUN cannot be shared with other hosts even on shared storage.

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An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to access the storage.
Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)

A

A. The switches in the fabric must be N-Port ID Virtualization aware.

B. The virtual machines must be using passthrough Raw Disk Mapping (RDMp).

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Which two statements are true regarding VMFS3 volumes in ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

A

A. Creation of VMFS3 volumes is unsupported.

B. Upgrading VMFS3 volumes to VMFS5 is supported.

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Which three statements are correct regarding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)? (Choose three.)

A

A. The network switch must have Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) set to AUTO.

D. Each port on the FCoE card must reside on a separate vSwitch.

E. The ESXi host will require a reboot after moving an FCoE card to a different vSwitch.

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Which two statements are true regarding Virtual SAN Fault Domains? (Choose two.)

A

A. They enable Virtual SAN to tolerate the failure of an entire physical rack.

B. Virtual SAN ensures that no two replicas are provisioned on the same domain.

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An administrator created a six node Virtual SAN cluster, created a fault domain, and moved three of the six nodes into that domain.

A node that is a member of the fault domain fails.
What is the expected result?

A

A. The remaining two fault domain members are treated as failed.

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63
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Where is a Virtual SAN Fault Domain configured?

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A. VMware Virtual SAN Cluster configuration

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64
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Which statement is true for the Path Selection Plug-In VMW_PSP_MRU?

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D. VMW_PSP_MRU will have no preferred path setting for the Plug-In.

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Which two tasks does the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) perform? (Choose two.)

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A. Handles I/O queueing to the logical devices.

C. Handles physical path discovery and removal.

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Which two statements are true regarding Storage Multipathing Plug-Ins? (Choose two.)

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B. The default Path Selection Policy is VMW_PSP_FIXED for iSCSI or FC devices.

C. VMW_PSP_MRU is typically selected for ALUA arrays by default.

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What is the command to list multipathing modules on an ESXi 6.x host?

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C. esxcli storage core plugin list –plugin-class=MP

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Which two solutions require Physical Mode Raw Device Mapping (RDM)? (Choose two.)

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A. Direct access to the storage array device

D. Guest Clustering across ESXi hosts

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A device’s vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) support status command line output shows:

naa.500253825002a865 VAAI Plugin Name: ATS Status: unsupported Clone Status: unsupported Zero Status: supported Delete Status: unsupported

What is the corresponding VAAI support status in the vSphere Web Client?

A

A. Unknown

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70
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What will be the result of selecting the highlighted device?

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A. Datastore will grow up to 200.01GB using the remaining free space on the device.

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An administrator observes that virtual machine storage activity on an ESXi 6.x host is negatively affecting virtual machine storage activity on another host that is accessing the same VMFS Datastore.

Which action would mitigate the issue?

A

A. Enable Storage IO Control.

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72
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An administrator is having a problem configuring Storage I/O Control on a Datastore.

Which two conditions could explain the issue? (Choose two.)

A

A. A host is running ESXi 4.0.

B. An ESXi host does not have appropriate licensing.

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Which three are requirements for configuring Storage I/O Control (SIOC)? (Choose three.)

A

A. The datastore must consist of only one extent.

B. The datastore is managed by a single vCenter Server.

C. Auto-tiered storage must be compatable with SIOC.

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An administrator wishes to provide Load Balanced I/O for the device shown in the Exhibit.

To meet this requirement, which setting should be changed?

A

B. Path Selection Policy = Round Robin (VMware)

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An administrator is configuring a storage device as shown in the Exhibit.

What is the expected effect on the stated device after running the command?

A

B. I/O will rotate on all storage targets that are Active Optimized state only.

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A vSphere 6.x environment is configured with VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs). An administrator accesses the cluster Actions menu, as shown in the Exhibit.

Which option is used to create a VVOL on an existing VVOL container?

A

A. Storage

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77
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What will be created upon completion of the steps in this wizard?

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A. 100GB VMFS5 datastore with free space available for expansion

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78
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An administrator is attempting to enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC), but receives the error shown in the Exhibit.

Which condition would explain the error?

A

C. The ESXi host CPU has the Intel No-Execute feature disabled.

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The list of devices attached to vmhba1 will be the basis for configuring a VMware Virtual SAN using Manual Mode.

Based on the exhibit, which two combinations of devices should be used to create Disk Group(s)? (Choose two.)

A

A. One Disk Group with one Flash Drive and three HDDs

B. Two Disk Groups with one Flash Drive and two HDDs each

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An administrator is using the esxtop command to troubleshoot storage performance issues on a virtual machine. The esxtop capture is shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

A

A. The iSCSI device is experiencing high latency.

C. The Guest OS is experiencing high latency and response time.

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An administrator needs to recover disk space on a previously-used thin provisioned virtual disk. The volumes where the administrator needs to recover the disk blocks are on VAAI-compliant storage arrays.

Which two actions should the administrator take accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

A

B. Use VMware Converter to migrate the virtual machine to a new datastore. This will recreate the volumes and recover all unused space.

D. Execute the esxcli storage vmfs unmap command.

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82
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An administrator recently created a Virtual SAN but no Storage Policies were defined. A few virtual machines were deployed to this cluster. The administrator analyzes the default Virtual SAN policy as shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

A

A. Losing one cluster node will not affect data availability.

B. Losing one Hard Disk in a cluster node will not affect data availability.

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A Storage Policy for a Virtual SAN is set to the default policy, as shown in the Exhibit.

Which change would reduce the storage consumption by one third?

A

A. Number of failures to tolerate = 1

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An administrator would like to add Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) to an iSCSI adapter. The administrator accesses the Storage Adapters menu as shown in the Exhibit.

In which tab can the task be accomplished?

A

A. Properties

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85
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An administrator is writing a kickstart script to upgrade an ESXi 6.x host.

In which three locations can the script reside? (Choose three.)

A

A. NFS

B. USB

C. HTTP

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86
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Which file determines the location of the installation script during a scripted upgrade?

A

A. boot.cfg

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87
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What three supported methods can be used to upgrade a host from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 6.x? (Choose three.)

A

A. vSphere Update Manager

C. esxcli

D. vSphere Auto Deploy

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88
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Which two supported tools can be used to upgrade virtual machine hardware? (Choose two.)

A

A. vSphere Web Client

B. vSphere Update Manager

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89
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What are three recommended prerequisites before upgrading virtual machine hardware? (Choose three.)

A

A. Create a backup or snapshot of the virtual machine.

B. Upgrade VMware Tools to the latest version.

C. Verify that the virtual machine is stored on VMFS3, VMFS5, or NFS datastores.

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90
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An administrator wants to upgrade to vCenter Server 6.x.
The vCenter Server:

  • Is hosted on a virtual machine server running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, with 8 vCPUs and 16GB RAM.
  • Will have an embedded Platform Services Controller.
  • Hosts a Large Environment with 1,000 ESXi hosts and 10,000 Virtual Machines.

Why does the vCenter Server not meet the minimum requirements?

A

B. The virtual machine has insufficient resources for the environment size.

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91
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An administrator has upgraded a Distributed vCenter Server environment from 5.5 to 6.0.

What is the next step that should be taken?

A

A. vCenter Inventory Service must be manually stopped and removed.

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92
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When upgrading vCenter Server, an administrator notices that the upgrade fails at the vCenter Single Sign-On installation.

What must be done to allow the upgrade to complete?

A

A. Verify that the VMware Directory service can stop by manually restarting it.

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93
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During a vCenter Server upgrade, an ESXi 6.x host in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails.

Which statement is true?

A

A. HA will fail the virtual machines over to an available host during the vCenter Server upgrade process.

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94
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An administrator is upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance and wants to ensure that all the prerequisites are met.

What action must be taken before upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance?

A

A. Install the Client Integration Plug-in.

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95
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An administrator is upgrading vCenter Server and sees this error:

The DB User entered does not have the required permissions needed to install and configure vCenter Server with the selected DB. Please correct the following error(s): %s

Which two statements explain this error? (Choose two.)

A

A. The database is set to an unsupported compatibility mode.

B. The permissions for the database are incorrect.

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96
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Which two vCenter Server services are migrated automatically as part of an upgrade from a Distributed vCenter Server running 5.x? (Choose two.)

A

B. vSphere Web Client

C. vSphere Inventory Service

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97
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What command line utility can be used to upgrade an ESXi host?

A

A. esxcli

98
Q

Which log file would you examine to identify an issue which occurred during the pre-upgrade phase of a vCenter Server upgrade process?

A

A. vcdb_req.out

99
Q

What is the minimum Virtual Hardware version required for vFlash Read Cache?

A

C. Version 10

100
Q

An administrator reviews the Health of a virtual machine, as shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which three metrics can be used to determine the virtual machine’s Workload characteristics? (Choose three.)

A

A. CPU

B. Memory

C. Network IO

101
Q

Which tab shows the Hardware Acceleration support status?

A

A. Devices

102
Q

Which minor badge items make up the Efficiency badge score for an ESXi host in vCenter Operations Manager?

A

D. Reclaimable Waste, Density

103
Q

An administrator subscribes to the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service.

Which replicated objects can be directly monitored and managed?

A

C. Virtual machines

104
Q

Which three statements are true when restoring a Resource Pool Tree? (Choose three.)

A

B. Restoring a snapshot can only be done on the same cluster from which it was taken.

C. No other resource pools can be present in the cluster.

D. Restoring a resource pool tree must be done in the vSphere Web Client.

105
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An administrator has created a resource pool named Marketing HTTP with a Memory Limit of 24 GB and a CPU Limit of 10,000 MHz.
The Marketing HTTP resource pool contains three virtual machines:

  • Mktg-SQL has a memory reservation of 16 GB.
  • Mktg-App has a memory reservation of 6 GB.
  • Mktg-Web has a memory reservation of 4 GB.

What would happen if all three virtual machines are powered on?

A

C. Only two of the three virtual machines can power on.

106
Q

Vmware vSphere Replication protects virtual machines from partial or complete site failures by replicating the virtual machines between which three sites? (Choose three.)

A

A. From a source site to a target site.

B. From within a single site from one cluster to another.

C. From multiple source sites to a shared remote target site.

107
Q

Which two capabilities does the vSphere Replication Client Plug-in provide? (Choose two.)

A

A. Configure connections between vSphere Replication Sites.

B. Deploy and register additional vSphere Replication Servers.

108
Q

A vSphere Replication user needs to connect a source site to a target site.

What privilege is needed at both sites?

A

A. VRM remote.Manage VRM

109
Q

Which three parameters should be considered when calculating the bandwidth for vSphere Replication? (Choose three.)

A

A. Data change rate

B. Traffic rates

C. Link speed

110
Q

When importing an existing SSL certificate into vSphere Replication Server, which file format is required?

A

A. PKCS#12

111
Q

Which keystore would a vSphere Replication administrator use to manually add an additional Certificate Authority certificate?

A

A. hms-truststore.jks

112
Q

What is the maximum number of snapshot instances in vSphere Replication that can be configured to recover a virtual machine at a specific point in time?

A

B. 24

113
Q

What is the compression algorithm used by vSphere Replication to compress data at the source?

A

A. FastLZ

114
Q

A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible.

What is a possible solution?

A

A. Assign the user the read-only role at the global permission level.

115
Q

When a Content Library is deleted, what happens to the files contained on the backing storage?

A

B. The files will be deleted.

116
Q

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 6.x and gets the following error:

MEMORY_SIZE

What does this indicate?

A

A. Insufficient memory on the ESXi host to complete the upgrade.

117
Q

An administrator is unable to start the vCenter Server service. The vpxd.log file shows this service failure:

[13308 error ‘Default’ opID=622892-371bf717] CoreDump: Unable to write minidump [13308 error ‘Default’ opID=622892-371bf717] error -2147024784 : There is not enough space on the disk.

What is preventing the start of the service?

A

A. Insufficient space on the vCenter Server

118
Q

After deploying a vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC), an administrator is unable to install vCenter Server. The error displayed is:

Could not contact Lookup Service. Please check VM_ssoreg.log.

Which two actions can be taken to correct this problem? (Choose two.)

A

A. Verify that the clocks on the host machines running the PSC, vCenter Server, and the vSphere Web Client are synchronized.

C. Ensure that there is no firewall blocking port 7444 between the PSC and vCenter Server.

119
Q

Which condition would cause a vCenter Server installation to fail when installing on a Windows virtual machine?

A

B. The virtual machine is running Windows Server 2008.

120
Q

An administrator is unable to see performance statistics for only the Past Week performance data. The vCenter Server is using a Microsoft SQL Server Database.

What are three likely causes contributing to this issue? (Choose three.)

A

A. Performance statistics are turned off.

B. The Past Day rollup job is not present.

C. The stats_rollup_1_proc is not present.

121
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An ESXi 6.x host in the vCenter Server inventory has disconnected due to an All Paths Down (APD) situation. An administrator has corrected the APD issue on the host, but it still remains disconnected.

What action should the administrator take next?

A

A. Select Restart Management Agents from the DCUI.

122
Q

An administrator notices that the time on an ESXi 6.x host is incorrect.

Which two actions should the administrator take to correct this issue? (Choose two.)

A

A. Modify the time for the host using the vSphere client.

B. Correct the NTP settings in the /etc/ntp.conf file.

123
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After successfully adding a new ESXi 6.x host to vCenter Server, an administrator sees it as Not Responding in the vSphere Web Client interface a few minutes later.

If the issue is caused by a network firewall blocking traffic, which port must be opened to correct this specific problem?

A

D. 902 (UDP)

124
Q

An administrator is troubleshooting network communications between the vCenter Server and the ESXi 6.x host.

Which log shows the interaction events between these components?

A

C. /var/log/vpxa.log

125
Q

An administrator is observing slow performance of the vCenter Inventory Service and observes the entries from the wrapper.log file:

Exception in thread “tomcat-exec-2” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap spaceException in thread “http-bio-0.0.0.0-10443-Acceptor-0” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

What should the administrator do to resolve the problem?

A

A. Increase the memory resources of the vCenter Server.

126
Q

An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine that has unexpectedly powered off.

Which two logs should be used to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose two.)

A

A. vmware.log

B. hostd.log

127
Q

An administrator notices that one virtual machine is in an orphaned state.

What are two reasons that a virtual machine can appear as orphaned? (Choose two.)

A

A. A Vmware High Availability host failure has occurred.

B. The virtual machine was unregistered directly on the host.

128
Q

What are three reasons why a virtual machine might fail to power on? (Choose three.)

A

A. The virtual machine is running on an ESXi host which has an expired license.

B. The virtual machine is running on a datastore which has insufficient disk space for the .vswp file.

C. The virtual machine is in a cluster with vSphere HA Admission control enabled.

129
Q

What is the name of the command line utility that checks for VMFS5 metadata corruption?

A

B. voma

130
Q

What are two reasons why a local flash device would be unavailable for use with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

A

A. It has a VMFS datastore present.

B. It is in use by the vFlash Read Cache feature.

131
Q

Which three troubleshooting actions should an administrator take to address slow performance when deploying a virtual machine template? (Choose three.)

A

A. Increase network throughput by adding additional uplinks to the vSwitch.

B. Change the destination datastore or volume for the virtual machine template.

C. Configure a Provisioning Traffic vmkernel port to perform the deployment operation.

132
Q

When attempting to remove a host from a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), an administrator observes the error message:

The resource ‘16’ is in use

What are two reasons why this error would be displayed? (Choose two.)

A

A. Vmkernel network adapters on the vDS are in use.

B. Virtual machine network adapters are connected to the vDS.

133
Q

An administrator suspects that the MTU value for a vSphere Standard Switch is misconfigured. Which two commands can determine the value? (Choose two.)

A

A. esxcfg-vswitch –l

B. esxcli network vswitch standard list

134
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Deletion of an NFS datastore generates the following error:
Sysinfo error on operation returned the following status:

Busy

Which step can be performed that will allow the deletion to complete successfully?

A

A. Storage vMotion any virtual machines on the datastore to another location.

135
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An administrator uses the df –h command and notices that an NFS datastore is reporting a capacity of 0 Bytes.

What condition would cause this to occur?

A

A. The NFS server on which the datastore resides is down.

136
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The command esxcli network vm list displays four virtual machines connected to the Production vSwitch. Within the vSphere Web Client, five virtual machines are seen.

What explains this behavior?

A

A. The fifth virtual machine is currently powered off.

137
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An administrator is experiencing network connectivity issues between virtual machines. The virtual machines and hosts are configured as follows:

  • VM1 is running on Host1
  • VM2 is running on Host2
  • Both Host1 and Host2 are attached to the vSphere Distributed Switch dvSwitch1
  • Both Host1 and Host2 are using vmnic0 and vmnic1 on dvSwitch1
  • Both virtual machines are using the default portgroup for network traffic

What are three settings the administrator should investigate while troubleshooting the connectivity issue? (Choose three.)

A

A. VLANs of the physical NICs

B. Failover order of the uplinks

C. Virtual NIC connectivity to the dvSwitch

138
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A task fails while creating a VMFS5 datastore on a disk with these characteristics:

  • Was previously used by a Linux server
  • Was not erased
  • Is visible with the vSphere Web Client

Which action can be performed to resolve the issue?

A

A. Delete the partitions on the disk manually with partedUtil first.

139
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A vSphere Web Client task fails while creating a VMFS datastore on a disk with these characteristics:

  • The disk was formatted with an Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table
  • The disk was not erased
  • The disk is visible in the vSphere Web Client

What action needs to be performed to resolve the issue?

A

A. Delete the partitions manually with partedUtil.

140
Q

Which two reasons would prevent Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) from operating on a datastore? (Choose two.)

A

A. The datastore has Storage I/O Control disabled.

B. The datastore is connected to an unsupported host.

141
Q

An administrator is unable to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.1 Update 2 to version 6.0.

What is a likely reason for this?

A

A. vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 does not support upgrades from version 5.1 Update 2.

142
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An administrator has migrated a vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.5 to version 6.x. During the migration, the administrator selected DHCP for the appliance and obtained a hostname from the DHCP server. The administrator adjusts the hostname after the migration and uses a static IP and hostname.

What should the administrator do immediately after this change to prevent service failures?

A

A. Regenerate the SSL certificates.

143
Q

An administrator is unable to patch an ESXi 6.x host using VMware Update Manager. What is an alternative option for patching a host?

A

A. Upload the offline bundle to a datastore and execute the command esxcli software vib install -d to apply it manually.

144
Q

Which three logs can be reviewed to troubleshoot a vCenter Server upgrade failure? (Choose three.)

A

A. vminst.log

B. vim-vcs-msi.log

C. pkgmgr.log

145
Q

Attempting to update an ESXi 6.x host using the following command:

esxcli software vib update –d update.zip

Generates the following error:

Could not download from depot at /tmp/index.xml, skipping ((‘/tmp/index.xml’, ‘’, “[Errno 4] IOError: ”)) url = /tmp/index.xml

What action should be taken to correct the problem?

A

A. Add the full file path to the command.

146
Q

A failed upgrade from vCenter Server version 5.x to version 6.0 produces the following error:

[00800 error ‘Default’] Database version id ‘600’ is incompatible with this release of VirtualCenter.

What is the cause of the upgrade failure?

A

A. There was a database schema upgrade failure during the installation.

147
Q

An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU performance issue for a virtual machine.

Which three esxtop counters may demonstrate CPU contention? (Choose three.)

A

A. %RDY

C. %MLMTD

E. %CSTP

148
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Users are reporting CPU related performance problems on the virtual machine Email-Prod throughout the day.
The resource settings for the VM and the ESXi host the VM is running on are shown below:

VM:

  • Email-Prod
  • vCPUs: 4
  • Memory: 96GB

ESXi host:

  • CPU: 2 x 8 Core Processors
  • Memory: 128GB
  • NUMA rchitecture. 2 Nodes

Which two options would alleviate the observed performance problem for Email-Prod? (Choose two.)

A

B. Enable the advanced parameter Numa.AutoMemAffinity.

C. Enable CPU affinity to separate 2 vCPUs for each NUMA node.

149
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An administrator is troubleshooting a performance problem with a virtual machine (VM). The VM and ESXi host configuration is as follows:

  • The application which runs within the virtual machine is highly sensitive to memory latency, but has low processor utilization.
  • The virtual machine has 6 vCPUs.
  • The ESXi host CPU topology has 2 Physical CPU Sockets, each with 8 Logical CPUs.
  • The ESXi host CPU has Hyper Threading enabled.

The administrator would like to improve CPU performance for this VM. Other VMs on the host have no performance issues.

Which action should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

A

A. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.vcpu.preferHT = TRUE in the virtual machine configuration file.

150
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An administrator has a virtual machine configured with the following settings:

  • ESXi version: 5.1
  • CPU: vCPUs 6
  • Memory: 48GB
  • Hardware version: 7
  • VMware Tools: Installed

Which two actions must the administrator take in order to utilize vNUMA? (Choose two.)

A

B. Upgrade to Virtual Hardware version 8.

C. Configure numa.vcpu.min to 5

151
Q

When troubleshooting a performance related issue, an administrator sees the following warning message on an ESXi Console:

Significant imbalance between NUMA nodes detected. Performance may be impacted.

Which action should the administrator take to correct this problem?

A

A. Ensure that the RAM modules are evenly balanced between processor sockets in the physical server.

152
Q

An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU issue for a virtual machine. The following is seen in esxtop:

  • CPU0 is at 100% usage
  • The remaining logical CPUs are close to 0%
  • %RDY value is consistently above 10%

What is likely the cause of the CPU issue?

A

C. The virtual machine has CPU affinity configured.

153
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An administrator notices that 8 out of 10 virtual machines have memory ballooning and swapping. However, virtual machine 9 is not ballooning or swapping and virtual machine 10 is not ballooning but is swapping.

Which two statements explain the behavior of virtual machine 9 and virtual machine 10? (Choose two.)

A

A. Virtual machine 9 has a 100% memory reservation.

D. Virtual machine 10 does not have Vmware Tools enabled or installed.

154
Q

An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine performance issue using vRealize Operations.

Which two badges would help to identify possible resource contention concerns? (Choose two.)

A

A. Health > Workload

D. Risk > Stress

155
Q

A virtual machine is exhibiting these symptoms:

  • Memory usage is constantly high (94% or greater) or constantly low (24% or less).
  • Free memory is consistently 6% or less and swapping frequently occurs

Which three solutions could correct this problem? (Choose three.)

A

A. Verify that Vmware Tools is installed on each virtual machine.

B. Decrease the memory reservation setting, if higher than active memory.

C. Add physical memory to the host.

156
Q

An administrator is concerned about possible vCPU over-commitment for an ESXi 6.x host.

Which two Performance Counters should be reviewed in the vSphere Web Client Performance Charts to confirm if there is contention on the host? (Choose two.)

A

B. Ready

D. Co-Stop

157
Q

An administrator tries to run esxtop to troubleshoot CPU performance issues, but no output is displayed.

How can the issue be resolved?

A

B. In esxtop, press f and place an asterisk next to each field that should be displayed.

158
Q

An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU performance related problem for the SlowVM virtual machine.

Which three actions should the administrator take to improve CPU performance for SlowVM? (Choose three.)

A

B. Decrease the number of vCPUs assigned to SlowVM.

C. Power off other VMs running on the same ESXi host.

E. Move SlowVM to another ESXi host with more physical CPU resources available.

159
Q

Examine the esxtop command output shown in the Exhibit.

Which option would improve application performance for the SlowVM virtual machine?

A

D. Increase the CPU limit assigned to SlowVM.

160
Q

An administrator notices that a Windows virtual machine is using 95% CPU in Task Manager.

Which two actions should be taken to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

A

B. Increase the CPU Shares on the resource pool where the virtual machine resides.

D. Increase the CPU limit on the resource pool where the virtual machine resides.

161
Q

An administrator wants to select a Host Power Management Policy for an ESXi 6.x host that will disable most hardware power management features.

Which Host Power Management Policy should be selected to meet this requirement?

A

A. High Performance

162
Q

An administrator wants to monitor virtual machines on a host and send notifications when memory usage reaches 80%.

What should the administrator create in vCenter Server to accomplish this?

A

B. A vCenter Server alarm that will monitor virtual machine memory usage and set an action to email the notification.

163
Q

What is the name of the High Availability agent log?

A

A. fdm.log

164
Q

An administrator is attempting to enable Legacy Fault Tolerance (FT) on a virtual machine and observes the following in the vSphere Web Client:

Fault Tolerance has not been licensed on host .

What is the minimum licensed edition that supports this configuration?

A

A. Standard

165
Q

An administrator is attempting to enable Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine with 4 vCPUs and observes the following in the vSphere Web Client:

Fault Tolerance has not been licensed on host .

What is the minimum licensed edition that supports this configuration?

A

A. Enterprise

166
Q

When attempting to place a datastore in Maintenance Mode, the task remains at 1%.

What are two potential causes for this? (Choose two.)

A

A. Storage DRS is disabled on one or more virtual machine(s) disk(s).

B. Storage DRS rules prevent migration recommendations for the disk.

167
Q

What are two likely causes for a DRS cluster to become unbalanced? (Choose two.)

A

B. Affinity rules are preventing virtual machines from being moved.

C. A device is mounted to a virtual machine preventing vMotion.

168
Q

Which two scenarios would cause a Fault Tolerance-enabled virtual machine to fail to power the Secondary virtual machine? (Choose two.)

A

A. The host has entered a Network Partitioned state.

B. vSphere High Availability (HA) is disabled on the host cluster.

169
Q

An administrator is reviewing a vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) enabled Cluster and observes unexpected behavior as shown in the Exhibit.

What are three potential causes of the cluster imbalance? (Choose three.)

A

A. A local device is mounted to one or more virtual machines.

B. DRS rules prevent virtual machines from being moved.

C. vMotion is not configured and enabled.

170
Q

An administrator receives the error message shown in the Exhibit.

Which two actions can be taken to clear the warning? (Choose two.)

A

B. Set the advanced High Availability parameter Das.heartbeatdsperhost to 1.

C. Set the advanced High Availability parameter Das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore to true.

171
Q

An administrator wants to increase the capacity of a VMFS5 datastore; but the Increase Size by slider is not available, as shown in the Exhibit.

How should the administrator resolve this problem?

A

A. Select a valid partition configuration from the drop-down menu.

172
Q

An administrator is troubleshooting intermittent poor performance of virtual machines in a vSphere
6.x cluster. Investigating esxtop data shows that the only statistic that stands out is %CSTP as depicted in Exhibit 1:

The administrator proceeds to switch to the Power Management screen and observes the data depicted in Exhibit 2:

Based on the information in the exhibits, which two configurations are probable causes of the poor performance? (Choose two.)

A

A. The active power policy is set to Low Power.

B. The host has active Sleep States configured in the BIOS.

173
Q

An administrator has recently configured HA on a cluster. After reviewing the summary tab on one of the hosts, the warning in Exhibit 1 is displayed:

The administrator proceeds to view the management network port group data shown in Exhibit 2:

The administrator then views the management network vSwitch as shown in Exhibit 3:

Based on the exhibits, which two steps should be taken to ensure redundancy on the management network? (Choose two.)

A

A. Move vmnic1 to Standby adapters.

D. Uncheck the Override Failover Checkbox on the management network port group.

174
Q

The Exhibit shows the status of vmhba32 and vmhba33 as Unbound.

What is a likely reason for this status?

A

A. The host bus adapter is not associated with a vmknic.

175
Q

Review the Exhibit. An administrator has configured permissions for a group called VMGroup and a user named VMUser. A new Role has been created called PowerVM. The group and role have these characteristics:

  • PowerVM role can power on VMs
  • VMGroup granted PowerVM role on VMFolder
  • VMUser is a member of VMGroup
  • VMUser granted No Access on VMFolder

Based on the exhibit, which statement best explains why VMUser is denied access to the VMFolder?

A

A. The VMUser permission overrides the VMGroup permission.

176
Q

An administrator receives an error on a vSphere cluster as shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which three configuration changes can resolve the error? (Choose three.)

A

A. Change the Admission Control policy for the cluster.

B. Adjust CPU and Memory reservations of the virtual machines.

C. Increase the amount of failover resources in the cluster.

177
Q

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi host from 5.5 to 6.0 and runs the following command:

esxcli software vib list –rebooting-image

What does this command show?

A

A. VIBs active after a reboot.

178
Q

An administrator receives vRealize Operations alerts for the Health of the virtual machine PVMAPP_0 as shown in Exhibit 1:

The administrator clicks on the Analysis pane, as shown in Exhibit 2:

Based on the exhibits, what action would correctly address the performance problems observed?

A

A. Increase the number of vCPUs for PVMAPP_0.

179
Q

Which two identification sources can a vSphere Auto Deploy rule use to identify target hosts? (Choose two.)

A

C. SMBIOS information

D. BIOS UUID

180
Q

An administrator has decided to create 10 ESXi 6.x hosts via Auto Deploy for a new Test/Dev cluster. The hosts are configured to obtain their networking configuration via DHCP.

Which Direct Console User Interface option should the administrator use to renew the DHCP lease for the hosts?

A

C. Restart Management Network

181
Q

An administrator is deploying ESXi 6.x hosts using Auto Deploy and wants the image profile to be available, even after closing and opening a new PowerCLI window.

Which command can be used to ensure that image profiles are preserved across PowerCLI sessions?

A

B. Export-EsxImageProfile

182
Q

Which two are valid compliance results that indicate the need to apply a Host Profile? (Choose two.)

A

A. Non-compliant

C. Unknown

183
Q

An administrator is using Auto Deploy to create several ESXi 6.x hosts that will be connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. After the hosts are deployed, the administrator notices that LACP packets are not being sent between them.

Which statement best describes why this issue is occurring?

A

B. The LACP support settings do not exist in the host profile.

184
Q

An administrator is building a large virtual machine that will require as many vCPUs as the host can support. An ESXi 6.x host has these specifications:

  • Six 32-core Intel Xeon Processors
  • 256 GB of Memory
  • 512 GB Local disk space using VMFS5

What is the maximum number of virtual CPUs that the virtual machine can be allocated?

A

B. 128

185
Q

Which two features are available for virtual machines configured with DirectPath I/O? (Choose two.)

A

B. Suspend and Resume

C. Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (vSMP)

186
Q

An administrator has configured a vSphere 6.x DRS cluster as shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which statement is true?

A

A. A virtual machine can be powered on in the Test Resource Pool with a 6 GB Memory

187
Q

An administrator has created the DRS cluster shown in the Exhibit. Based on the exhibit, which statement is true?

A

A. Under CPU contention, Prod-VM1 receives four times the CPU resources than Test-VM1.

188
Q

What are two ways to view the DNS settings for an ESXi 6.x host? (Choose two.)

A

A. Use the vicfg-dns command from the vSphere Management Appliance.

B. View the /etc/resolv.conf file on the ESXi host.

189
Q

After configuring a Virtual SAN cluster, an administrator using the vSphere Web Client notices that the Virtual SAN datastore is smaller than expected. The cluster contains:

  • Three ESXi hosts
  • Each host has one 10GB SDD
  • Each host has one 100GB HDD

Why would the Virtual SAN datastore show as 100GB instead of 300GB?

A

A. There is a network problem with the Virtual SAN vmkernel ports.

190
Q

An administrator tries to capture network traffic for a virtual machine, but cannot see the expected traffic in the packet capture tool.

Which step can resolve the problem?

A

B. Enable Promiscuous Mode on the relevant port group.

191
Q

An administrator attempts to place a Storage DRS enabled Datastore into Maintenance Mode. The task never completes, and the Entering Maintenance Mode status remains at 1%.

Which two actions should the administrator take to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)

A

A. Set the Storage DRS advanced option IgnoreAffinityRulesForMaintenance = 1.

C. Disable Storage DRS affinity rules associated with this datastore cluster.

192
Q

Which two scenarios could cause Storage DRS to be disabled on a Virtual Disk (VMDK)? (Choose two.)

A

A. The VMDK is an independent disk.

B. The virtual machine has vSphere Fault Tolerance enabled.

193
Q

A vSphere 6.x DRS cluster is configured as shown in the Exhibit. Based on the exhibit, which statement is true?

A

C. A virtual machine can be powered on in the DB Resource Pool with a 3 GHz CPU Reservation.

194
Q

An administrator wants to set a non-default isolation address of 192.168.1.2 for High Availability.

Which advanced setting would accomplish this task?

A

A. Das.isolationaddress0=192.168.1.2

195
Q

How does vSphere High Availability calculate the memory slot size of a virtual machine?

A

A. Virtual machine memory reservation + overhead of largest virtual machine

196
Q

In a vSphere High Availability cluster, what is the VM Monitoring I/O stats interval default value?

A

C. 120 seconds

197
Q

An administrator enables High Availability (HA) on a Virtual SAN cluster.
There are four vmkernel port groups with the following IP addresses assigned:

  • Management: 192.168.12.10
  • vMotion: 192.168.13.10
  • Virtual SAN: 192.168.14.10
  • Fault TolerancE. 192.168.15.10

Which IP address will HA use for traffic?

A

C. 192.168.14.10

198
Q

An administrator wants to configure a High Availability cluster to allow virtual machines a 10 minute window to shut down in the event of a Host Isolation incident.

What two configuration settings would satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)

A

B. Set the advanced option das.isolationshutdowntimeout = 600.

C. Configure Host Isolation Response to Shut Down and Restart VMs.

199
Q

A vSphere 6 High Availability cluster has been configured with default settings. Four virtual machines in the cluster have been configured with these priorities:

  • Prod-DB. High
  • Prod-Email: High
  • Prod-VC. Medium
  • Dev-VDI: Low

How many VM Overrides would need to be defined at the cluster level to meet the restart priorities?

A

B. 2

200
Q

Which two settings are required for Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP) to protect from All Paths Down (APD) and Permanent Device Loss (PDL)? (Choose two.)

A

A. Host Monitoring

B. VM Restart Priority

201
Q

Which two options are available in the Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP) setting Response for Datastore with All Paths Down (APD)? (Choose two.)

A

A. Issue Events

B. Power off and restart virtual machines

202
Q

Which two statements regarding Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity rules are true? (Choose two.)

A

A. When two VM-VM affinity rules conflict, the older one takes precedence and the newer rule is disabled.

C. DRS gives higher precedence to preventing violations of anti-affinity rules than violations of affinity rules.

203
Q

An administrator has configured Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) groups and Affinity Rules as shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

A

B. A new conflicting affinity rule will be disabled by default.

D. The administrator must disable Rule3 in order to enable Rule4.

204
Q

An administrator wants to prevent a priority virtual machine that resides in a vSphere DRS cluster from migrating to other hosts in the cluster.

What configuration step will accomplish this without affecting other virtual machines?

A

B. Set VM Overrides to Manual.

205
Q

The Prod-DB virtual machine has a VM Override as shown in the Exhibit.

What step, it taken, would require all virtual machines in the cluster to migrate automatically?

A

D. Change the Automation level to Use Cluster Settings.

206
Q

An administrator manages a High Availability (HA)/Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)-enabled cluster and has configured the affinity rule shown in the Exhibit.

Which two statements best describe the configuration shown in the exhibit? (Choose two.)

A

B. HA will failover Marketing to ESXi hosts that are not in the Host group.

D. DRS will not attempt to keep Marketing on the ESXi host 10.21.28.106.

207
Q

An administrator has configured a firewall rule as shown in the Exhibit. Which statement best describes the ESXi 6.x firewall rule?

A

B. Connections coming from IP addresses from the 192.168.1.0 network and 192.168.2.220 on port 22 are allowed.

208
Q

An administrator is planning a vSphere infrastructure with the following specific networking requirements:

  • The ability to shape inbound (RX) traffic
  • Support for Private VLANs (PVLANs)
  • Support for LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)

What is the minimum vSphere Edition that will support these requirements?

A

D. vSphere Enterprise Plus

209
Q

What two IT infrastructure components are virtualized by vSphere Essentials? (Choose two.)

A

A. Networks

B. Storage

210
Q

An administrator is performing a silent automatic update of VMware Tools on a Windows virtual machine.

What syntax needs to be entered into the Advanced Options box?

A

A. /s /v “/qn” /l “c:\Windows\filename.log”

211
Q

An administrator wants to reduce the memory overhead for a 3D graphics enabled virtual machine (VM).

What advanced feature can be added to the VM configuration file to reduce memory overhead?

A

A. vga.vgaOnly=TRUE

212
Q

Which three ports are used by the vSphere Web Client when connecting directly to an ESXi 6.x host? (Choose three.)

A

A. 443 TCP

B. 902 TCP and UDP

C. 903 TCP

213
Q

When attempting to connect to a vCenter Server, an administrator observes the following at the top of the vSphere Web Client:

Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server Systems: https://vCenter.corp.com:443/sdk

What three reasons could be preventing the vSphere Web Client from communicating with this vCenter Server? (Choose three.)

A

A. The vCenter Server machine is not responding via the network.

B. An incorrect entry for this vCenter Server exists in the Single Sign-On service.

C. The SSL certificates do not match the FQDN address for the server.

214
Q

An administrator wants to allow users to login to the vSphere Web Client using the Use Windows session authentication check box for faster authentication.

Which three requirements must be met for this feature to be available and functional? (Choose three.)

A

B. Install the vSphere Web Client Integration browser plug-in on each workstation from where a user will sign in.

C. The users must be signed into Windows using Active Directory user accounts.

D. The administrator must create a valid Identity Source in Single Sign-On for the users domain.

215
Q

An administrator wants to power on a virtual machine (VM) while connected to an ESXi host using SSH. The VM has the following Name and ID:

  • VM Name = SQL001 - VMID = 12345

Which command would successfully power on the virtual machine?

A

A. vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 12345

216
Q

What will occur if the .nvram file is deleted from a powered off virtual machine?

A

A. The .nvram file will get created the next time the virtual machine is powered on.

217
Q

An administrator tries to connect the vSphere 5.5 Client to an ESXi 6.x host.

What will happen when this takes place?

A

C. The operation will prompt the administrator to run a script to upgrade the vSphere Client.

218
Q

An administrator observes the following symptoms for a virtual machine:

  • CPU usage is consistently above 90%
  • CPU ready value is consistently above 20%.
  • Application performance is impacted.

Which two actions should the administrator take to improve the performance of this virtual machine? (Choose two.)

A

B. Decrease the number of vCPUs assigned to this virtual machine.

C. Verify that VMware Tools is installed on every virtual machine on the host.

219
Q

An administrator plans to use VMware Converter Standalone to convert a virtual machine to a vSphere environment. The source virtual machine has these properties:

  • Running Windows 2008 R2
  • Contains one NTFS formatted volume

During conversion, how many virtual disks can the administrator add to the destination virtual machine?

A

A. 0

220
Q

An administrator needs to migrate a legacy physical application server to a virtual machine within a vSphere 6 cluster. As part of the conversion, the administrator must reduce the size of the virtual disks.

What action should the administrator take to create a virtual machine with smaller virtual disks than the original physical server?

A

D. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level.

221
Q

An administrator is creating a new Platform Service Controller Password Policy with the following requirements:

  • Minimum length: Minimum of 8 characters.
  • Restrict use: 6
  • Character requirements: At least one upper-case letter, one number, and one special character.
  • Identical adjacent characters: 0

When trying to assign the password “P@$$w0rd”, the administrator receives an error that the password does not meet the Password Policy requirements.

Which part of the Password Policy does this password violate?

A

D. Identical adjacent characters

222
Q

Which VMware Single Sign-On component handles STS authentication requests?

A

D. Identity Management Service

223
Q

An administrator is configuring an identity source for Single Sign-On. The administrator will use the machine that Single Sign-On is running on, but does not want all users on the machine to be visibile to SSO.

Which Identity Source meets this requirement?

A

A. Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication)

224
Q

An administrator is building a large virtual machine that will require as many vCPUs as the host can support. An ESXi 6.x host has these specifications:

  • Four 24-core Intel Xeon Processors
  • 256 GB of Memory
  • 512 GB Local disk space using VMFS5

What is the maximum number of virtual CPUs that the virtual machine can be allocated?

A

B. 96

225
Q

An administrator has a virtual machine (VM) that uses a shared USB device.

Which option will allow the VM to utilize vMotion while retaining the maximum possible functionality?

A

B. Configure the VM to support vMotion while the device is connected.

226
Q

An administrator is creating a new Content Library. It will subscribe to another remote Content Library without authentication enabled. Optimal performance is desired for the configuration.

What two steps should be taken to set up the library? (Choose two.)

A

A. The Subscription URL should be provided.

. A datastore should be used for this library.

227
Q

An administrator has configured Network I/O Control to support bandwidth allocation to a group of virtual machines running on a vSphere 6.x HA/DRS Cluster.

Which two conditions would cause DRS to migrate one of these virtual machines to another host in the cluster? (Choose two.)

A

A. The reservation is changed to a value that the initial host can no longer satisfy.

B. A physical adapter that carries traffic from the virtual machine is offline.

228
Q

An administrator wants to ensure that all datastores defined on an ALUA-based storage array have load balancing enabled by default. The storage configuration is:

  • Storage Array Type = VMW_SATP_DEFAULT_AA
  • Path Selection Policy = VMW_PSP_FIXED

Which configuration would support the stated requirements?

A

A. Change the Storage Array Type Policy to = VMW_SATP_ALUA and the Path Selection Policy = VMW_PSP_RR.

229
Q

An administrator needs to configure a storage solution for a vSphere 6.x implementation with these characteristics:

  • Snapshot support
  • vMotion Capability
  • Clustering across multiple ESXi hosts
  • Database application with high transaction count
  • vFlash Read Cache

Which solution meets all of the stated requirements?

A

C. A Virtual Mode Raw Device Mapped LUN

230
Q

An administrator observes that virtual machine storage activity on an ESXi 6.x host is negatively affecting virtual machine storage activity on another host that is accessing the same VMFS Datastore.

Which action would mitigate the issue?

A

A. Enable Storage I/O Control.

231
Q

An administrator is configuring Storage I/O Control. After enabling, the administrator notices high device latency and poor storage performance.

Which two actions would likely reduce latency and improve functionality? (Choose two.)

A

A. Set the congestion threshold to 15ms

C. Ensure that each datastore has independent spindles

232
Q

Which two statements are true regarding upgrading ESXi 6.x hosts using a USB flash drive? (Choose Two)

A

B. The USB flash drive must be formatted using Fat32.

C. A partition table must be manually created on the USB flash device.

233
Q

Which two conditions would prevent an administrator from upgrading an existing vCenter Appliance to vSphere 6.x? (Choose two.)

A

A. The appliance has been configured to use an external Single Sign-On server.

B. The administrator did not export the appliance configuration.

234
Q

Which two statements are true regarding upgrading from a Distributed vCenter Server 5.x to vCenter Server 6.x? (Choose two.)

A

A. vCenter Single Sign-on becomes part of the Platform Services Controller.

C. The vCenter Server service is not migrated during the upgrade process.

235
Q

An administrator has noticed that virtual machine VM2 in the vApp shown in the Exhibit is demonstrating poor performance.

Which three changes, if performed separately, would improve the performance of VM2? (Choose three.)

A

A. Remove the CPU limit on the vApp.

D. Power off virtual machine VM1.

E. Increase the CPU reservation on virtual machine VM2.

236
Q

An administrator is configuring resource pools for a vSphere 6.x cluster. The cluster has these characteristics:

  • Five ESXi 6.x hosts
  • Six cores per host
  • 70 virtual machines with 1 vCPU each

The administrator configures three resource pools and places the virtual machines into the pools, as follows:

  • Production pool - High Share value with 40 virtual machines
  • Infrastructure pool - Medium Share value with 20 virtual machines
  • Development pool - Low Share value with 10 virtual machines

Given this configuration, what is the expected performance for each group of virtual machines during contention?

A

C. Virtual machines in all resource pools will perform equally.

237
Q

An administrator has decided to create 10 ESXi 6.x hosts via Auto Deploy for a new Test/Dev cluster. The hosts are configured to obtain their networking configuration via DHCP.

Which condition would explain why none of the hosts are able to receive a valid DHCP address?

A

A. The BIOS DHCP File Name was incorrectly entered on the DHCP server.

238
Q

An administrator wants to clone the configuration of an existing ESXi 6.x host to a new group of hosts, but does not want to clone storage specific settings.

Which action would accomplish this?

A

B. Remove sub-profile

239
Q

When operating with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM), what two statements explain the impact of disabling vSphere High Availability admission control? (Choose two.)

A

C. DRS will evacuate virtual machines from hosts and places hosts in maintenance or standby modes regardless of the impact this might have on failover requirements.

D. VMware DPM will place hosts in standby mode even if doing so violates failover requirements.

240
Q

An administrator has configured a cluster with the Host Failures Cluster Tolerates admission control policy, as shown in the Exhibit:

Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

A

B. The cluster can sustain loss of only one node.

C. The number of slots per cluster node is three.