A vSphere administrator is managing a cluster that hosts critical financial applications requiring strict compliance. The security team mandates that all ESXi host configurations be managed declaratively and version-controlled in a Git repository. The goal is to move away from the traditional method of extracting a configuration from a reference host. Which vSphere 8 feature directly addresses this requirement?
An administrator is deploying a new ESXi 8 host equipped with a Data Processing Unit (DPU). The goal is to offload networking services from the host's CPU to the DPU. After installing the DPU-specific ESXi image, the administrator needs to configure networking. Which networking component is essential for managing network traffic between the host and the DPU?
A DevOps team is deploying containerized applications on a vSphere with Tanzu environment. They need to provide persistent storage for a stateful application running in a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster. Which vSphere component is used to create and manage the underlying storage volumes for these persistent volume claims?
True or False: In a vSphere 8 environment, vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) can manage the lifecycle of VMware Tools for virtual machines within a cluster that is being managed by a vLCM image.
A vSphere cluster is protected by vSphere High Availability (HA). An administrator observes that during a host failure, some high-priority VMs are not restarted, and the cluster events log shows 'Insufficient resources to satisfy vSphere HA failover level'. The HA admission control policy is set to 'Cluster resource percentage' with 25% reserved for both CPU and memory. What is the most likely cause of this issue?
An administrator needs to encrypt a virtual machine's disks and its vMotion traffic. The environment uses a third-party Key Management Server (KMS). Which two components must be configured in vCenter Server to enable this functionality? (Select TWO)
A financial company is implementing a new three-tier application in their vSphere 8 environment. The security policy requires strict network isolation between the Web, App, and DB tiers. The administrator has been asked to implement this using a solution that provides centralized management and distributed firewalling capabilities without requiring significant physical network changes. The current environment consists of a single vCenter Server managing one cluster of ESXi hosts. All hosts are connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS). The physical network team has provided a single VLAN for all VM traffic. The company has licenses for vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware NSX. To meet the security requirements, the administrator plans to use NSX to create logical segments for each application tier and apply distributed firewall rules to control traffic flow between them. This approach will provide micro-segmentation within the existing VLAN. Which configuration step is a prerequisite for creating NSX logical segments and applying distributed firewall rules to the VMs in this cluster?
An administrator is troubleshooting poor storage performance for a VM running a database application. The administrator uses `esxtop` and navigates to the disk device view. Which counter should be monitored to get the most accurate measure of the latency being experienced by the guest OS for I/O operations?
To enhance security, a vSphere administrator wants to ensure that ESXi hosts only boot with authentically signed VMware software and that the host's configuration is measured and attested by vCenter. Which two features must be enabled on the ESXi host hardware and configured in vSphere to achieve this? (Select TWO)
An administrator is configuring a new vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) and wants to ensure that if an uplink adapter fails, the traffic is rerouted to another available uplink with minimal packet loss. The physical switches are not configured for Link Aggregation (LACP). Which NIC teaming policy should be selected for the distributed port group?