An architect is preparing a design for a company planning digital transformation.
During the requirements gathering workshop, the following requirements (REQ) and constraints (CON) are identified:
- REQ01 The platform must host different types of workloads including applications that must be compliant with internal security standard.
- REQ02 The infrastructure must initially run 100 virtual machines.
- REQ03 Ten of the virtual machines must be compliant with internal security standard.
- REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.
- CON01 The customer has already purchased the licenses as part of another project.
- CON02 The customer has five physical servers that must be reused.
Additionally, based on resource requirements, four physical servers will be enough to run all workloads.
Which recommendation should the architect make to meet requirements while minimizing project costs?
As part of designing a greenfield vSphere-based hosting solution, an architect is responsible for defining a patch management solution for the virtual infrastructure.
During initial meetings with the customer, the following information is provided:
There are two geographically dispersed physical sites (primary and secondary) in scope for the solution.
The inter-site connectivity has been classified as low bandwidth and high latency.
The customer has the following requirements:
REQ001 - Only IT Security Team-approved versions of VMware Tools should be installed across all workloads within the infrastructure.
REQ002 - The solution should minimize traffic across the inter-site link.
REQ003 - Upgrades to the virtual infrastructure should continue in the event of a failure with either site.
A combination of which three design decisions could the architect make to ensure the requirements are met?
(Choose three.)
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:
1. 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
2. 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.)
An architect is designing a new VMware solution for a customer that has a number of different resource profiles.
The following are the business requirements for the design:
The solution must support virtual machines with the following storage profiles:
- Write-intensive
- Backup
- Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) archive
The solution must support migration of virtual machine disks between storage profiles.
The WORM archive data must be located at an isolated secure site.
The backup storage array must only be connected to a backup media server.
All data should be recoverable from backup.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the business requirements?
