An architect is designing an environment for a retail customer. The design will use a single small vCenter Server Appliance and a cluster of eight ESXi hosts at a remote site. There is a single 10 GbE connected network at the remote site to support all management services. It is not possible to create additional management networks at the remote site. Virtual machine backups at the site will be dependent on the vCenter Server being available.
Which design decision should the architect make to maximize availability for backups?
Correct Answer:C
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer’s Chief Information Security Office (CISO) provides the following requirements that are pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:
All operating system critical patches must be installed within 24 hours of release. All virtual machine templates must be updated every three months in line with company policy.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?
Correct Answer:A
This is lifecycle management function. The requirement is system critical patches, not system security patches.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement:
A new vSphere platform must be designed securely and all interfaces must be protected against potential snooping.
How should this non-functional security requirement be documented?
Correct Answer:A
An architect is designing a new vSphere environment with the following resources:
600 vCPU 5,760 GB RAM
Average resource usage is: 60 vCPU 1,152 GB RAM
The design must meet the following requirements: The environment has the ability to burst by 25%.
Each host can schedule 36 vCPUs and has 512 GB RAM. Management overhead is 20%.
What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the design requirements?
Correct Answer:D
An architect is tasked with designing a greenfield VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that will be used to deliver a private cloud service for a customer.
During the initial meeting with the service owner and business sponsor, the customer has provided the following information to help inform the design: The solution must initially support the concurrent running of 300 production and 600 development virtual machines. The production environment should be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers. The development environment must be vSphere-based but does not have to be deployed on-premises. The two data centers are connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links. The customer’s server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be based on blade architecture only.
The service owner has said that is important to ensure that neither the availability target of 99.5% nor the resource capacity is affected when the operations team completes maintenance activities, such as the monthly software patching and ad-hoc hardware break/fix. All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service. The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is four hours. The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is 24 hours.
Given the information from the customer, which two would be classified as assumptions within the design? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer:BE