Refer to the exhibit.
An architect is assigned a new project to design a VMware hybrid cloud solution.
The project is following a proven design methodology following the V-Model of systems engineering and verification. The selected methodology follows these phases: Assess, Design, Deploy and Validate.
Which activity would be conducted during the Design phase?
An architect is responsible for the lifecycle management design for a brownfield vSphere-based solution.
The following information has been provided during initial meetings around the new solution:
Existing heterogeneous server hardware will be used to provide the hosting platform.
The available hardware is:
- 10 servers that contain 2 x 20-Core Intel Xeon processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor A
- 10 servers that contain 2 x 24-Core Intel Xeon processors and 768 GB RAM from Vendor A
- 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B
- 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor B All of the hardware is currently listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).
All existing server hardware has 36 months vendor support remaining.
The requirements from the customer are:
REQ001 - The solution must support the hosting of 5,000 workloads spread across two physical sites.
REQ002 - The solution should minimize the number of clusters.
REQ003 - The solution must ensure that there is no impact to service when completing upgrades.
Given the resource requirements needed for the solution, the architect has calculated that all of the existing servers will be required to provide sufficient resources for the new environment. The Intel-based (Vendor A) servers will be deployed to the primary site and both the Intel-based and AMD-based servers (Vendor B) will be deployed to the secondary site.
Which assumption should the architect make to support the lifecycle management of vSphere 8?
An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer.
During a requirement gathering workshop, the following information is provided:
The solution must have a primary and secondary site.
The solution must support a maximum of 1,000 concurrent workloads.
The profile of the workloads are as follows:
- Production Workloads
-- 300 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
-- 400 x Medium: 2 vCPU, 6 GB RAM
-- 100 x Large: 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
- Development Workloads
-- 200 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
The corporate security policy states that, during normal operations, production workloads must be physically segregated from development workloads.
All production workloads are split evenly across the primary and secondary site.
All development workloads run only within the secondary site.
In the event of a disaster affecting workloads in the primary site, the secondary site must be capable of running all production and development workloads.
The vCPU to physical core ratio should be a maximum of 10:1 for production workloads and 20:1 for development workloads.
The solution should provide a minimum of N + 1 resiliency at each component level.
The target physical host hardware platform has already been defined by the company's hardware standards and therefore each host has the following configuration:
-- 2 x 24 physical cores
-- 768 GB RAM
-- 2 x 100 GB SSD drives
-- 6 x 10 GbE network cards
What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the requirements?
How do you determine the network protocol needs for a vSphere network design?
