VCP 2V0-21.23
f\n administrator needs to provide encryption for workloads within an existing vSphere cluster. The following requirements must be met:
* Workloads should be encrypted at rest.
* Encrypted workloads must automatically be encrypted during transit.
* Encryption should not require any specific hardware.
What should the administrator configure to meet these requirements?
After a number of outages within a production VMware software-defined data center, an administrator is tasked with identifying a solution to meet the following requirements:
* Reduce the risk of outages by proactively identifying issues with the environment and resolving them.
* Reduce the complexity of uploading log bundles when raising support tickets.
Which solution should the administrator recommend to meet these requirements?
An administrator is responsible for performing maintenance tasks on a vSphere cluster. The cluster has the following configuration:
. Identically configured vSphere ESXi hosts (esx01, esx02, esx03 and esx04)
* All workloads are deployed into a single VMFS datastore provided by the external storage array
* vSphere High Availability (HA) has not been enabled
* vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) has not been enabled
Currently, a critical production application workload (VM1) is running on esx01.
Given this scenario, which two actions are required to ensure VM1 continues to run when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode? (Choose two.)
An administrator needs better performance and near-zero CPU utilization from the ESXI hosts for networking fun
Which solution would help achieve this goal?
Following a merger with another company, an administrator is tasked with configuring an identity source for VMware vCenter so that all vSphere administrators can authenticate using their existing Active Directory accounts. Each company has user accounts in their own Active Directory forests.
The following additional information has been provided:
* The corporate policy states that only Windows-based machine accounts are allowed in Active Directory. Which action should the administrator take to configure vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) to meet this requirement?
An administrator is asked to configure a security policy at the port group level of a standard switch.
The following requirements must be met:
* The security policy must apply to all virtual machines on portgroup-1.
* All traffic must be forwarded, regardless of the destination.
A vSphere cluster has the following vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) group configuration:
* Virtual machine (VM) group named DB
* Host groups named PROD11 and PROD55
The administrator wants to force the VMs in the DB group to run on the hosts in the PROD11 group. However, if all the hosts in PROD55.
Which VM/Host rule must the administrator create to ensure that these requirements are met?
An administrator needs to perform maintenance on a datastore that Is running the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) virtual machines (VMs).
Which feature can the administrator use in this scenario to avoid the use of Storage vMotion on the vCLS VMs?
Which vCenter feature must be configured?
What is the minimum supported network throughput in Gb/s for each host?
The administrator has already completed the following steps and no errors have been returned:
- Downloaded all applicable software and created a new image.
- Attached the new image to the cluster and run a compliance check against the image for the cluster.
- Ran a remediation pre-check for the cluster.
Which three options does the administrator have? (Choose three.)
Which two types of adapters must the administrator configure? (Choose two.)
What should the administrator do to make this change?
Virtual machines (VMs) are running Production and Test workloads vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is enabled
There are no resource pools in the cluster
Performance monitoring data shows that the Production workload VMs are not receiving their fully allocated memory when the vSphere cluster is fully utilized.
A combination of which two steps could the administrator perform to ensure that the Production VMs are always guaranteed the full allocation of memory? (Choose two.)
Where must the mail server settings be configured by the administrator to resolve this issue?
A combination of which two tasks should the administrator complete to prepare for the deployment of this virtual machine for multiple users? (Choose two.)
From the vCenter Management Interface, which action should the administrator take to continue the process from the point at which the error occurred?
What could be the root cause of this issue?
Which vCenter feature must be configured?
Which action must the administrator take before proceeding with the Supervisor cluster update?
How should the administrator create these templates?
All certificates should use certificates trusted by the Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA).
The solution should minimize the ongoing management overhead of replacing certificates.
Which three actions should the administrator take to ensure that the solution meets corporate policy? (Choose three.)
The following constraints apply:
The business owner is not concerned if all changes in the application make it to the SDDC in the secure location.
The application’s data is hosted in a database with a high number of transactions.
What could the administrator do to create an image of the guest OS and application that can be moved to this remote data center?
The solution should support the creation of Enhanced Link Mode groups.
All user accounts are stored within a single Active Directory domain and the solution must support only this Active Directory domain as the identity source.
All user account password and account lockout policies must be managed within the Active Directory domain.
The solution should support token-based authentication.
Which SSO solution should the administrator choose based on the criteria?
The following requirements must be met:
The virtual machine must remain online during the protection.
The virtual machine's snapshots must be used as part of the replication process.
Which step must the administrator complete to accomplish this task?
Which action should the administrator take to meet the objective?
400 hosts
4000 virtual machines
Which two resources must be allocated, at a minimum, to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
Which four steps would the administrator complete to meet this requirement? (Choose four.)
Which two tools can the administrator use? (Choose two.)
The administrator has completed the following steps:
Set up the workstation -
Enabled the Trust Authority Administrator
Enabled the Trust Authority State
Collected information about the ESXi hosts and vCenter to be trusted
Which step does the administrator need to complete next?
The distributed switch has three ESXi hosts, and each host has two 40 Gbps NICs.
The amount of bandwidth reserved for virtual machine (VM) traffic is 6 Gbps.
The administrator wants to guarantee that VMs in the Finance distributed port group can access 50 percent of the available reserved bandwidth for VM traffic.
Given this scenario, what should the size (in Gbps) of the Finance network resource pool be?
Which two vSphere reporting tools could the administrator use? (Choose two.)
Which task should the administrator complete on the virtual machines to free up datastore space?
What are two possible reasons why the configuration was not successful? (Choose two.)
All physical servers must synchronize time with an external time source that is accurate to the microsecond.
A combination of which four steps should the administrator take to resolve the performance issues and ensure that a similar issue can be rectified without requiring downtime to vCenter moving forward? (Choose four.)
“Server Not Found – We can’t connect to the server at esxi101.corp.local.” The following information has been provided to complete the configuration:
The following requirements must be met for assigning the users access:
Users must only be able to view all of the inventory objects associated with the management vSphere cluster.
Users must be able to edit all of the inventory objects associated with the workload vSphere clusters.
The administrator creates a custom role to provide the permissions needed to allow users to edit inventory objects.
Which series of steps should the administrator complete to assign the custom role and provide the required level of access to users?
The cluster has the following configuration:
All workloads are deployed into a single VMFS datastore provided by the external storage array
Given this scenario, which two actions are required to ensure VM1 continues to run when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode? (Choose two.)
Which two tools can the administrator use? (Choose two.)
The following requirements must be met:
• All virtual machines (VMs) must be protected to a secondary site.
• The source VMs must remain online until the failover.
• When failing over to the secondary site, application downtime is allowed.
• The DR failover must be managed from the vSphere Client.
• Costs must remain as low as possible.
How can the administrator accomplish this task?
What are the next steps the administrator must perform to complete the update?
• The group VM_Users has the Virtual Machine Power User role.
• The group VM_Viewers has the Read Only role.
The administrator confirms that the user requesting the additional access is currently one of five members of the VM_Viewers group.
Which two steps should the administrator take to grant this user the additional access required without impacting the user access of others? (Choose two.)
• All hosts in the cluster are updated with the same software.
• The firmware versions on the hosts are updated.
• The new software versions are checked for compliance against the vSAN Hardware Compatibility List.
Which three steps should the administrator take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
The following requirements must be met:
• VLAN ID on the switch port group must be 4095.
• VLAN tagging must be done at the VM level.
Which tagging mode is required?
Which option would allow the administrator to achieve this?
After adding the ESXi hosts to the cluster, which networking information will the administrator be prompted to provide when using the Cluster Quickstart workflow?
Which vSphere feature must be configured to ensure that vCenter users experience minimal downtime?
Which two solutions must be used to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)
What could the administrator do to improve the VM’s performance?
Which feature can be used to meet these requirements?
What is the minimum network throughput in Gb/s for vSAN using the Express Storage Architec-ture (ESA)?
Which step is completed during Stage 1 of the vCenter Server Appliance deployment?
The vSphere cluster currently has four identically configured ESXi hosts (esx01, esx02, esx03 and esx04) that utilize Intel Skylake-based CPUs. The two new hosts (esx05 and esx06) are con-figured identically in terms of memory and storage to the existing hosts, but utilize Intel Ice Lake-based CPUs.
The administrator must ensure that:
• Any virtual machine migrates to any of the six ESXi hosts running in the cluster.
• There is no virtual machine downtime during the process of adding the new hosts.
Which step should the administrator take to meet these requirements?
Where can the administrator find log files containing information related to user login activities?
An administrator has configured Storage I/O Control (SIOC) on a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore.
• The datastore supports 30,000 IOPS
• Storage I/O Control has been set to manual
• Storage I/O Control is triggered when latency hits 30 ms
• The datastore contains 3 virtual machines (VMs)
1. A gold tier VM
2. A silver tier VM
3. A bronze tier VM
Assuming the datastore latency does not exceed 29ms, what is the maximum number of IOPS the bronze tier VM is entitled to?
The following information is provided:
• The corporate security policy states that all forms of data encryption must utilize a key provider.
• The firmware of each VM is currently set to use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
• Due to the nature of the application running within the VMs, the guest operating system for each VM is currently a minimum of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7.
Which security feature should the administrator implement to meet these requirements?
• ESXi Host name (FQDN): esx01.corp.local
• ESXi IP Address: 172.20.10.200
• vCenter Server Name (FQDN): vcsa01.corp.local
• vCenter Server IP Address: 172.20.10.100
• NTP Server: 172.20.10.20
• DNS Server: 172.20.10.1
• Deployment Size: Tiny
• Storage Size: Default
Which two actions must the administrator complete before starting the installation of the vCenter Server Appliance? (Choose two.)
What solution should the administrator deploy to meet these requirements?
• The cluster contains two virtual machines (VMs) named app01 and app02.
• The cluster contains six hosts named esx11 through esx16.
• The app01 and app02 VMs run software that is licensed to run only on esx11, esx12, or esx13.
• vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is configured.
Which set of steps must the administrator perform to ensure that the licensing requirements are met for app01 and app02?
Which series of steps should the administrator take to accomplish this task?
The administrator also performs the following activities:
• The administrator assigns two uplinks to the distributed switch.
• The administrator enables uplink teaming.
When attempting to perform a health check of the teaming policy, the health status of the Team-ing and Failover reports as “Unknown”, as seen in the exhibit.
What can the administrator changes in the distributed switch for the health status to report cor-rectly?
1. Resource Pool “RP-MOM” has a reservation of 6GHz and one running virtual machine (VM) “VM-M1” with 1 GHz reserved.
2. Resource Pool “RP-KID” has a reservation of 2GHz, and expandable reservations is activated.
The administrator creates two VMs, “VM-K1” and “VM-K2”, in the “RP-KID” resource pool with 2GHz reserved for each, and turns on “VM-M1.”
Given this scenario, which statement is true?
• The SDDC currently hosts two vSphere clusters (ClusterA and ClusterB) with different CPU compatibilities.
• vSphere vMotion and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) are currently in use in the SDDC.
• The new capacity will be implemented by provisioning four ESXi hosts running a new generation of Intel Skylake CPUs.
• All workload virtual machines (VMs) must support live migration to any cluster in the SDDC.
The administrator noticed the running critical "evc1" virtual machine (VM) shown in the exhibit is not migrating using vSphere vMotion to the original Clusters A or B.
Which three steps must the administrator take to support this fun