A company has recently deployed a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) virtual infrastructure. Maintenance on the virtual infrastructure is scheduled. The administrator is tasked to safely shutdown the VI Workload Domain.
What is a prerequisite before shutting down the VI Workload Domain?
Before shutting down a VI Workload Domain in a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment, it is critical to ensure that complete backups of all management components are available. This precaution safeguards against data loss and enables recovery if any issues arise during or after the shutdown. Management components are essential for the operation of VCF, so having backups ensures that the environment can be restored if necessary.
A company is configuring a vSAN stretched cluster for their VI Workload Domain to enable Automatic Recovery. The administrator will have to implement a vSAN Witness Host.
Where will the vSAN Witness Host need to be located?
In a vSAN stretched cluster configuration, the vSAN Witness Host must be located in a separate site (such as an external site or cloud location) from the two main sites that make up the stretched cluster. This configuration ensures that the Witness Host can act as a quorum node, helping the cluster determine which site should remain active in the event of a failure in one of the main sites. Placing the Witness in an external location provides resilience and avoids any single point of failure within the stretched cluster.
An application is being deployed into a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment. Due to the constraints of the application, the architect has requested two edge clusters deployed with the following configuration:
* One Edge VM cluster to host the Tier-0 gateway
* Another Edge VM cluster to host the Tier-1 gateway
What deployment approach should be followed to achieve this requirement?
Using NSX Manager allows the administrator to fully customize the network topology and deploy multiple edge clusters with distinct gateway roles, aligning with the application's specific requirements. The SDDC Manager handles broader infrastructure provisioning but doesn't directly manage the configuration of Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways. In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), NSX-T Manager is responsible for the deployment and management of edge clusters and network services. When specific configurations are required, such as separate edge clusters for Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways, NSX Manager is the appropriate tool to deploy and assign these clusters directly.
NSX Manager provides the capability to configure multiple edge clusters and to assign specific roles (like Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway responsibilities) to each cluster.
SDDC Manager does not directly manage the assignment of Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways to specific edge clusters; this is done in NSX Manager.
Therefore, Option B is correct because it specifies using NSX Manager to handle both the deployment and the assignment of the gateways.
An administrator was asked to ensure virtual machines running in a production workload domain are protected even against two simultaneous host failures in the cluster using vSAN storage.
Which storage policy parameter must be configured accordingly to satisfy this requirement?
In vSAN storage, the Failures to Tolerate (FTT) parameter in the storage policy determines the number of host or disk failures a virtual machine can withstand without data loss. Setting FTT = 2 ensures that the VM is protected even in the event of two simultaneous host failures by creating additional data replicas to meet this level of redundancy.
An administrator is tasked with enabling Workload Management on a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain. The administrator is concerned about the networking requirements for the Supervisor control plane VMs.
Which network considerations should be taken into account?
When enabling Workload Management on a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain, the Supervisor control plane VMs are assigned floating IP addresses on the management network. This network setup ensures that the control plane can communicate effectively within the management infrastructure and allows centralized management and orchestration of Kubernetes workloads.
