NEW QUESTION 1
An administrator is planning to upgrade a VMware vCenter instance to version 8. It is currently integrated with the following solutions:
* VMware Aria Automation
* VMware Cloud Director
Which tool can the administrator use to run Interoperability reports before the upgrade process?

• A. sphere Update Manager
• B. VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
• C. vCenter Server Update Planner
• D. vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Answer: C

Explanation:
The tool that can be used to run interoperability reports before upgrading a vCenter Server instance is vCenter Server Update Planner, which allows checking compatibility with other VMware products.
References:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vcenter.upgrade.doc/GUID-C3FFBF62-D6BF

NEW QUESTION 2
An administrator creates a new corporate virtual machine (VM) template every month to include all of the latest patches. The administrator needs to ensure that the new VM template is synchronized from the primary data center site (London) to two secondary data center sites (Tokyo and New York). The administrator is aware that datastore space is limited within the secondary data center sites. The administrator needs to ensure that the VM template is available in the secondary sites the first time a new virtual machine is requested.
Which four steps should the administrator take to meet these requirements? (Choose four.)

• A. Create a new published content library at the primary site.
• B. Add the virtual machine template to the subscribed content library.
• C. Create a new published content library in each secondary site.
• D. Create a new subscribed content library in each secondary site.
• E. Configure the subscribed content library to download content when needed.
• F. Configure each subscribed content library to download content immediately.
• G. Add the virtual machine template to the published content library.

Answer: ADEG

Explanation:
To meet the requirements of synchronizing and protecting images and templates with limited datastore space, the administrator needs to create a new published content library at the primary site, which makes it available for subscription by other vCenter Server instances; create a new subscribed content library in each secondary site, which allows accessing content from a published content library; configure the subscribed content library to download content when needed, which saves datastore space by only downloading content on demand; and add the virtual machine template to the published content library, which makes it available for other hosts to use.
References:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-FBEED81C-F9D

NEW QUESTION 3
An administrator is asked to segregate virtual machine (VM) traffic by VLAN on a vSphere standard switch 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?

• A. External Switch Tagging (EST)
• B. None
• C. Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT)
• D. Virtual Switch Tagging (VST)

Answer: C

Explanation:
The tagging mode that is required is Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT), which allows VLAN tagging to be done at the VM level. VGT requires that the VLAN ID on the switch port group be set to 4095, which is a special value that indicates that packets from all VLANs are allowed to pass through. References:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-D35A0A1C-B6
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003806

NEW QUESTION 4
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator set up the following configuration:
• The distributed switch has four ESXi hosts, and each host has two 10 Gbps NICs.
• In the Network I/O Control configuration, the amount of bandwidth reserved for virtual machine (VM) traffic if 4 Gbps.
The administrator wants to guarantee that VMs in the Retail 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 Retail network resource pool be?

• A. 40
• B. 32
• C. 8
• D. 16

Answer: D

Explanation:
4Gbps*8Nic=32Gbps*50%=16Gbps

NEW QUESTION 5
An administrator is tasked with migrating a single virtual machine (VM) from an existing VMware vCenter to a secure environment where corporate security policy requires that all VMs be encrypted. The secure environment consists of a dedicated vCenter instance with a 4-node vSphere cluster and already contains a number of encrypted VMs.
Which two steps must the administrator take to ensure the migration is a success? (Choose two.)

• A. Ensure that the source and destination vCenter instances share the same Key Management Server(KMS).
• B. Ensure that Encrypted vMotion Is turned off for the VM.
• C. Ensure that the VM is encrypted before attempting the migration.
• D. Ensure that the VM is powered off before attempting the migration.
• E. Ensure that the source and destination vCenter Servers have a different Key Management Server (KMS).

Answer: AC

Explanation:
To ensure a successful migration of an encrypted VM to a secure environment, the administrator needs to ensure that the source and destination vCenter instances share the same Key Management Server (KMS), which provides encryption keys for both environments; and ensure that the VM is encrypted before attempting the migration, which allows preserving its encryption status during vMotion.
References:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-F8F105EC-A6EA- https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-C3FFBF62-D6BF

NEW QUESTION 6
An administrator is creating a content library to manage VM templates and ISO images. The administrator wants to password-protect the images and templates and share them with a remote site.
Which two tasks must the administration perform when creating the content library? (Choose two.)

• A. Publish the local content library.
• B. Enable the security policy.
• C. Create a subscribed content library.
• D. Select an NFS datastore.
• E. Enable authentication.

Answer: AE

Explanation:
To password-protect and share images and templates with a remote site, the administrator needs to publish the local content library, which makes it available for subscription by other vCenter Server instances; and enable authentication, which requires users to enter credentials when accessing the content library.
References:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-FBEED81C-F9D

NEW QUESTION 7
An administrator is tasked with applying updates to a vSphere cluster running vSAN using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Downtime to the ESXI hosts must be minimal while the work Is completed.
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 two series of steps should the administrator perform to start the remediation of the cluster using the new image? (Choose two.)

• A. * 1. Use the Remediate option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to remediate all of the ESXI hosts in the cluster in parallel.* 2. Allow vSphere Lifecycle Manager to automatically control maintenance mode on the ESXI hosts.
• B. * 1. Place each of the ESXI hosts into maintenance mode manually.* 2. Use the Stage option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to stage the required software on all ESXi hosts one at a time.
• C. * 1. Leave all ESXI hosts in the cluster operational.* 2. Use the Stage All option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to stage the required software onto all ESXI hosts one at a time.
• D. * l Leave all ESXI hosts in the cluster operational* 2. Use the Stage All option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to stage the required software onto all ESXI hosts in the cluster In parallel.
• E. * 1 Use the Remediate Option In vSphere Lifecycle Manager to remediate all of the ESXI hosts In the cluster In sequence.* 2. Allow vSphere Lifecycle Manager to automatically control maintenance mode on the ESXI hoy

Answer: AD

Explanation:
Option A and D are correct because they allow vSphere Lifecycle Manager to automatically control maintenance mode on the ESXi hosts and remediate them in parallel or in sequence. Option B and C are incorrect because they require manual intervention to place the hosts into maintenance mode or to stage the software on each host, which is not efficient or minimal downtime. References: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere-lifecycle-manager.doc/GUID-9F9E3F8

NEW QUESTION 8
An administrator is tasked with adding two additional hosts into an existing production vSphere cluster to support the need for additional capacity.
The vSphere cluster currently has four identically configured ESXi hosts (esxOT esx02. esx03 and esx04) that utilize Intel Skylake-based CPUs. The two new hosts (esx05 and esx06) are configured 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?

• A. Create a new vSphere cluster with Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) enabled and move all hosts into A' the new cluster
• B. Create a new vSphere cluster and move only three hosts into the new cluster.
• C. Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) mode on the existing cluster and add the two new hosts into the cluster.
• D. Create a new vSphere cluster with vSphere High Availability (HA) enabled and move all hosts into the new cluster

Answer: C

Explanation:
The step that the administrator should take to meet these requirements is to configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) mode on the existing cluster and add the two new hosts into the cluster. EVC mode allows migration of virtual machines between different generations of CPUs by masking unsupported processor features. EVC mode can be enabled on an existing cluster without affecting powered-on virtual machines. References:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-9F444D9B-44A
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/06/enhanced-vmotion-compatibility-evc-explained.html

NEW QUESTION 9
An administrator is tasked with installing VMware vCenter. The vCenter Server Appliance must support an environment of:
• 400 hosts
• 4000 virtual machines
Which two resources must be allocated, at a minimum, to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. 16 vCPUs
• B. 30 GB Memory
• C. 4 vCPUs
• D. 8 vCPUs
• E. 20 GB Memory

Answer: BD

Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vcenter.install.doc/GUID-88571D8A-46E1-464

NEW QUESTION 10
What is the role of vSphere Distributed Services Engine?

• A. Provide a live shadow Instance of a virtual machine (VM) that mirror, the primary VM to prevent data loss and downtime during outages
• B. Implement Quality of Service (QoS) on network traffic within a vSphere Distributed Switch
• C. Provide hardware accelerated data processing to boor.t infrastructure performance
• D. Redistribute virtual machines across vSphere cluster host affinity rules following host failures or during maintenance operations

Answer: C

Explanation:
The role of vSphere Distributed Services Engine is to provide hardware accelerated data processing to boost infrastructure performance by offloading network services from the CPU to the DPU.
References: https://core.vmware.com/resource/whats-new-vsphere-8

NEW QUESTION 11
An administrator is tasked with deploying a new on-premises software-defined data center (SDDC) that will contain a total of eight VMware vCenter instances.
The following requirements must be met:
• All vCenter instances should be visible in a single vSphere Client session.
• All vCenter inventory should be searchable from a single vSphere Client session.
• Any administrator must be able to complete operations on any vCenter instance using a single set of credentials.
What should the administrator configure to meet these requirements?

• A. Two Enhanced Linked Mode groups consisting of four vCenter instances each in a Single Sign-On domain.
• B. A single Hybrid Linked Mode group consisting of four vCenter instances each in a Single Sign-On domain.
• C. A single Enhanced Linked Mode group consisting of eight vCenter instances in one Single Sign-On domain.
• D. A single Hybrid Linked Mode group consisting of eight vCenter instances in one Single Sign-On domain.

Answer: B

Explanation:
To meet the requirements of viewing and searching all vCenter instances and inventory with a single vSphere Client session and a single set of credentials, the administrator needs to configure a single Enhanced Linked Mode group consisting of eight vCenter instances in one Single Sign-On domain.
References:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-39A8C7F4-8D8
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-vcenter-installation/GUID-4394EA1C-0800-4A6A-

NEW QUESTION 12
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?

• A. Configure SSO to use Active Directory over LDAP as the identity source.
• B. Configure SSO to use OpenLDAP as the identity source.
• C. Join the vCenter Server Appliance to the LDAP domain.
• D. Configure SSO to use Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication) as the identity source.

Answer: A

Explanation:
Integrated Windows Authentication is now depreciated (from v7). "The Active Directory over LDAP identity source is preferred over the Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication) option." https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78506

NEW QUESTION 13
An administrator is tasked with configuring vSphere Trust Authority. 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?

• A. Import the Trusted Host information to the Trust Authority Cluster
• B. Import the Trusted Cluster information to the Trusted Hosts
• C. Create the Key Provider on the Trusted Cluster
• D. Import the Trusted Host information to the Trusted Cluster

Answer: A

Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/images/GUID-D205B3C1 https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-39D8AB34-AD45-4B0A-8FB0-7A1

NEW QUESTION 14
An administrator needs better performance and near-zero CPU utilization from the ESXI hosts for networking functions and processing. The administrator creates a new vSphere Distributed Switch and enables network offloads compatibility.
Which solution would help achieve this goal?

• A. VSphere Distributed Services Engine
• B. Data Processing Units (DPUs)
• C. vSphere Network I/O Control
• D. Universal Passthrough version 2

Answer: B

Explanation:
The solution that would help achieve better performance and near-zero CPU utilization from the ESXi hosts for networking functions and processing is Data Processing Units (DPUs), which are specialized processors that offload network services from the CPU and provide hardware acceleration.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-networking/GUID-41AB1101-D943-490A-BF1A-E

NEW QUESTION 15
An administrator wants to use tag-based placement rules on their virtual machine disks using VMware vCenter.
Which option would allow the administrator to achieve this?

• A. Storage Policy Based Management
• B. Storage I/O Control
• C. vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
• D. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Answer: A

Explanation:
https://vnote42.net/2020/01/15/vcenter-tag-based-vm-placement/

NEW QUESTION 16
A vSphere cluster hosts a three-tier application. The cluster has 50% resources available. If a host in the cluster fails, the database server must be online before the application server, and the application server must be online before the Web server.
Which feature can be used to meet these requirements?

• A. Predictive DRS
• B. vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart
• C. vSphere HA Restart Priority
• D. Proactive HA

Answer: B

Explanation:
https://www.vladan.fr/what-is-vmware-orchestrated-restart/

NEW QUESTION 17
A combination of which two components of the software-defined data center (SDDC) are responsible for the initial abstraction of CPU, memory, disk, and network resources and their subsequent management? (Choose two.)

• A. VMwere ESXi
• B. VMware vCenter Cloud Gateway
• C. VMware Ana Suite Lifecycle
• D. VMware vCenter
• E. VMware Ana Operations

Answer: AD

Explanation:
VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter are the two components of the software-defined data center (SDDC) that are responsible for the initial abstraction of CPU, memory, disk, and network resources and their subsequent management1. VMware ESXi is the virtualization platform where you create and run virtual machines and virtual appliances2. VMware vCenter is the service through which you manage multiple hosts connected in a network and pool host resources2. These two components are part of the SDDC architecture that enables a fully automated, zero-downtime infrastructure for any application, and any hardware, now and in the future3.

NEW QUESTION 18
An administrator has a requirement to revert a running virtual machine to a previous snapshot after a failed attempt to upgrade an application. When the administrator originally took the snapshot, the following choices in the Take Snapshot dialog were made:
• Snapshot the virtual machine's memory = false
• Quiesce guest file system = false
What will be the result of the administrator selecting the ‘Revert to Latest Snapshot? option to return the virtual machine to a previous snapshot? (Choose two.)

• A. The virtual machine will be restored to the parent snapshot
• B. The virtual machine will be restored in a powered off state
• C. The virtual machine will be restored to the child snapshot
• D. The virtual machine will be restored in a powered on state
• E. The virtual machine will be restored in a suspended state

Answer: AB

Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-3E1BB630-9223

NEW QUESTION 19
Refer to Exhibit:

An environment has the following configuration:
•Resource Pool “RP-MOM? has a reservation of 6GHz and one running virtual machine (VM) "VM-M1? with 1 GHz reserved
•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?

• A. The administrator must deactivate expandable reservations to turn on VM-K2
• B. The administrator can create a third VM ( VM-K3?) at RP-KID and reserve 6GHz
• C. VM-K2 can be powered on because it can get the resources needed from RP-MOM.
• D. VM-K2 cannot be powered on because there are not enough resources in RP-KID.

Answer: C

Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-resource-management/GUID-60077B40-66FF-4625

NEW QUESTION 20
An administrator is tasked with providing users access to objects within an existing VMware vCenter instance. The vCenter inventory has a single data center with one management vSphere cluster and five workload vSphere clusters.
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?

• A. Apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only role to the root vCenter object.Apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters and enable propagation.
• B. Apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only role to the root vCenter object and enable propagatio
• C. Apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters and enable propagation.
• D. Apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only role to the root vCenter objec
• E. Apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters.
• F. Apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only role to the root vCenter object and enable propagatio
• G. Apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters.

Answer: D

Explanation:
Option D is correct because it allows the administrator to apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only
role to the root vCenter object and enable propagation, which will apply to all of the inventory objects in vCenter, and then apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters, which will override the Global permissions and allow users to edit all of the inventory objects associated with the workload vSphere clusters. Option A is incorrect because it will not enable propagation for the Global permissions, which will limit the Read Only role to the root vCenter object only. Option B is incorrect because it will enable propagation for both the Global and vCenter permissions, which will create a conflict between the Read Only and custom roles. Option C is incorrect because it will not enable propagation for either the Global or vCenter permissions, which will limit the Read Only role to the root vCenter object only and the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters only. References:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-A2A4371A-B888

NEW QUESTION 21
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