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?

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

• Each host has 2 × 10 GbE NIC
• EtherChannel is not currently configured
• No changes can be made to the physical network
• Network throughput must be prioritized for defined critical services

Which two recommendations should the architect make with regard to virtual networking? (Choose two.)

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During a requirements gathering workshop, the architect shares the following diagram:

What should the architect recommend for guaranteed throughput for each service?

An organization's existing vSphere environments are configured for Enhanced Linked Mode. The DevOps team automates the creation of hardened virtual machine images for various operating systems. Their continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline runs a task at the end of a successful build, which uploads the Open Virtualization Format (OV) image to a sandbox content library, deploys a virtual machine from the image, and then destroys these objects after quality checks are complete.

The following requirements have been noted:

• All content libraries and images must be centrally created and managed.
• All images must be capable of being updated.
• All images must be refreshed and available to subscribed libraries within 24 hours.
• All images must provide details of the image contents and versions.
• All images must be capable of being reverted to a previous version.
• All images must be capable of having the hardware and guest operating system customized during deployment.

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

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

During the discovery phase, the following information is documented:

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

A customer has a database cluster with 40/60 read/write ratio and a high IOPs requirement with no contention on an all-flash vSAN cluster.

Which two storage settings should be configured for best performance? (Choose two.)

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?

What is a benefit of using a scale-out method for handling vSphere cluster growth?

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

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

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?

Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center. The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company’s virtual machines.

Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.

How should the architect merge the company’s assets and virtual machines?

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer and learns that the customer has:

• A single vSphere cluster
• Two storage arrays with different RAID capabilities

Which two design decisions should the architect make to maximize data availability and data performance for this customer? (Choose two.)

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

• The environment must support 5,000 virtual machines.
• The environment will be built initially using 350 hosts.

Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

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

As part of a new hybrid cloud initiative for a large financial company, the customer technical team is presenting an overview of the current state of the infrastructure and their vision for a new solution.

The project team captures notes during the presentation and adds them to the discovery documentation. Which of the listed statements is a design constraint?

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

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

• A localized content library must be available in each data center.
• Each content library must be updated when an image is updated and released by the build team.
• The cloud automation platform must be able to consume the latest approved content library images.
• It must leverage the existing build team processes.

What should the architect recommend to meet the requirements?

A customer requires the use of data encryption to ensure data is not accessible when a drive is removed from the primary storage platform. However, there is also a requirement to use deduplication and compression against all workloads in order to conserve space.

Which solution meets the customer requirements?

A Cloud Service Provider wants to introduce backup as a service for a customer’s vSphere-based virtual machines.

The following information is noted:

• They have a single four-port (2 × 10 GbE and 2 × 1 GbE) NIC per ESXi host
• All top-of-rack (ToR) switches are 10 GbE and fully populated
• The backup traffic must not impact existing services

Which two recommendations should the architect make to help the customer incorporate the service? (Choose two.)

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer’s Chief Information Security Office (CISO) provides the following requirements that are pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:

• All operating system critical patches must be installed within 24 hours of release.
• All virtual machine templates must be updated every three months in line with company policy.

Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

An architect is finalizing the design for a new vSphere platform based on the following information:

• All Windows virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster for licensing purposes.
• All Linux virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster for licensing purposes. All management virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster.
• A total of ten physical sites will be used to host virtual machines.
• In the event of one physical datacenter becoming unavailable, the manageability of the virtual infrastructure in the remaining data centers should not be impacted.
• Access to configure the management virtual machines via vCenter Server must be controlled through the management Active Directory domain.
• Access to configure the Windows and Linux virtual machines must be controlled through the resource Active Directory domain.
• The management and resource Active Directory domains are part of separate Active Directory forests and do not have any trusts between them.
• The design will use Active Directory with Integrated Windows Authentication.

How should the architect document the vCenter Server configuration for this design?

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During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):

The customer wants database application level availability to always take precedence. What should the architect recommend to meet the customer’s requirement?

An architect is tasked with designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution for an online retail customer who has a primary and secondary data center as well as 10 distribution hubs.

The customer has provided the following business requirements to help inform the design:

• The solution must support the running of up to 1,000 concurrent virtual machines across the primary and secondary data center.
• The solution must support the running of up to 20 concurrent virtual machines in each distribution hub.
• The solution must support the separation of management and lines-of-business application virtual machines.
• All management components (including directory services, backup, automation, operations and logging) must be deployed to the primary data center.
• All virtual infrastructure components must have redundancy of N+1.
• All sites are connected to each other using a wide area network that has multiple diversely routed links.
• The solution should support a monthly uptime target of 99.9%.
• The recovery time objective (RTO) for the solution must be four hours.
• The recovery point objective (RPO) for the solution must be 24 hours.

Given the information from the customer, which assumption should the architect include in the design?

An architect is preparing a design for a customer. Based on requirements, the architect recommends an HCI- based infrastructure with all-flash architecture. During the assessment, it is confirmed that the network throughput generated by virtual machines does not exceed 150 Mb/s.

What is the minimum number and type of network adapters in each server that the architect can recommend to ensure requirements are met and there is no single point of failure?

An architect is tasked with recommending a solution for a company that is running out of VLANs. Currently the company is running two separate data centers based on vSphere including an Enterprise Plus license. In the first data center, the problem was solved by using VMware NSX and overlay network. In the second data center, there is currently no VMware NSX implementation in place and no budget for additional licenses.

What should the architect recommend as a potential solution to provide support for additional VLANs?

An architect is designing a new vSphere platform to meet a list of requirements from the security team.

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

An architect is designing a new vSphere cluster. The requirement is to provide a total of 96 CPU cores and 1.5 TB RAM across all hosts.

The following information has been provided:

Two different physical hardware profiles are available for the ESXi hosts in the cluster.

-Profile 1: 16 CPU cores and 256 GB RAM

-Profile 2: 32 CPU cores and 512 GB RAM

Profile 2 is twice as expensive to purchase as Profile 1.

Which two aspects should the architect consider when selecting the hardware profile? (Choose two.)