A financial services company is deploying a new vSphere 7 environment to host a latency-sensitive trading application. The application's virtual machines require consistent, low-latency access to a specific physical NIC on the ESXi hosts for compliance and performance monitoring. The network team has mandated that this traffic must be isolated and cannot be impacted by vMotion or other management traffic. Which virtual networking configuration should the vSphere administrator implement to meet these requirements?
Q2
A vSphere administrator is analyzing a DRS cluster's performance. The cluster summary shows a 'VM Happiness' score of 75% for several critical VMs. What does this score indicate about the state of these virtual machines?
Q3
During a maintenance window, a junior administrator attempts to place an ESXi host into maintenance mode, but the task fails. The host is part of a fully automated DRS cluster and a vSphere HA cluster. A critical virtual machine running on this host is configured with a host-to-VM affinity rule. What is the most likely reason for the failure?
Q4Multiple answers
A consultant is designing a storage solution for a vSphere cluster that will host a mix of Tier-1 database VMs and general-purpose file server VMs. The primary requirements are granular, policy-based management at the VMDK level and offloading storage operations to the storage array. The storage hardware is a modern SAN that supports the required vSphere APIs. Which two vSphere storage technologies should the consultant recommend? (Select TWO).
Q5
True or False: When a virtual machine snapshot is created, the original base virtual disk file (.vmdk) is immediately modified to an immutable, read-only state.
Q6
An administrator needs to deploy 50 identical web server virtual machines from a master image. To ensure consistency and rapid deployment, the administrator decides to use a template. What is the key difference between cloning a virtual machine and deploying a virtual machine from a template?
Q7
**Case Study:** A regional healthcare provider, HealthFirst Solutions, is virtualizing its infrastructure on a new vSphere 7 cluster. The cluster consists of three identical ESXi hosts connected to a central iSCSI SAN. The primary goal is to ensure high availability for critical patient record systems while maximizing resource utilization for less critical administrative applications. **Current Situation:** The vSphere HA and DRS clusters have been enabled with default settings. The patient record systems are running in several high-priority VMs, and the administrative apps are in lower-priority VMs. During a recent test, an administrator simulated an ESXi host failure by powering it off. The high-priority VMs successfully restarted on the remaining hosts, but the IT director noted that some of the lower-priority VMs did not restart. **Requirements:** 1. All high-priority VMs must always be able to restart after a single host failure. 2. Lower-priority VMs should restart if resources are available, but they must not prevent high-priority VMs from restarting. 3. The solution should be automated and not require manual intervention during a failure event. Which vSphere HA configuration should the administrator implement to meet all requirements?
Q8
An administrator is reviewing the files that constitute a powered-on virtual machine. They locate a file with a `.vswp` extension that is roughly the same size as the VM's configured memory. What is the primary purpose of this file?
Q9
A vSphere cluster contains hosts with different generations of Intel processors. To ensure successful vMotion migrations between all hosts in the cluster, an administrator must configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC). What is the underlying mechanism that EVC uses to achieve this compatibility?
