Which design decision must be included in a design to allow for the deployment of a minimum supported configuration of vCenter High Availability (HA)?
Which two statements are true about gathering functional business and application requirements? (Choose two.)
You interview stakeholders and conduct workshops to gather requirements and build consensus. Gathering requirements is an iterative process, which might require multiple rounds of interviews. Asking the right questions is vital, and you must gather both functional and nonfunctional requirements. A good strategy for a successful project is to bring the correct people together and build consensus.
A VMware Service Provider is tasked with delivering a solution for continuous availability for a subset of Tier 1 virtual machines (VMs) and vApps running in their vSAN environment. The VMs make up a mission-critical application and there can be no data loss in the event of an outage at their primary data center. In the event of a regional outage, they have established a 10-minute recovery point objective (RPO). Failover/failback to the third site must be automated.
They have the following in place:
Two local data centers (primary and secondary) connected with 100 Gb dedicated fiber
2ms round-trip time (RTT) latency between the sites
A third data center located on another power grid
70ms latency between the primary and secondary data centers
Matching storage arrays at all locations
Which two solutions could be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched-cluster-guide#section1
- a latency of less than or equal to 100 milliseconds is preferred.
Witness to Site -- less than 100msec; 200msec is acceptable https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/converged-infrastructure/technical-support/vxrail-stretched-cluster-planning-guide-for-7-0.pdf - a latency of less than or equal to 100 milliseconds is preferred.
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?
The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage. We can use tags to report on usage.
An architect is designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) that will consist of 100 branch sites connected to a single VMware vCenter Server within the primary data center. To allow for the use of existing automation scripts, there is a requirement to replicate the names of the virtual distributed port groups across all sites. The procurement team purchases licensing and there is no further budget allocated.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet this requirement?
Hosts provisioned with vSphere Auto Deploy cache the image (stateless caching):
Set up and apply a host profile for stateless caching. You can cache the image on a local disk, a remote disk, or a USB drive. Continue provisioning this host with vSphere Auto Deploy. If the vSphere Auto Deploy server becomes unavailable, for example because hundreds of hosts attempt to access it simultaneously, the host boots from the cache. The host attempts to reach the vSphere Auto Deploy server after the boot operation to complete configuration.
Hosts provisioned with vSphere Auto Deploy become stateful hosts:
Set up and apply a host profile for stateful installs. When you provision a host with vSphere Auto Deploy, the image is installed on the local disk, a remote disk, or a USB drive. For subsequent boots, you boot from the disk. The host no longer uses vSphere Auto Deploy.
