VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design 3V0-21.23 Exam Dumps

1. Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center. The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company’s virtual machines.

Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.

How should the architect merge the company’s assets and virtual machines?

2. An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:

- The environment must support 5,000 virtual machines.

- The environment will be built initially using 350 hosts.

Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

3. The storage team at an organization is planning to migrate from an older Fibre Channel storage environment to a new environment using IP-based storage.

Which two switch features or characteristics are appropriate for IP storage networks? (Choose two.)

4. What do availability requirements for vCenter Server relate to?

5. An architect is designing a new vSphere platform for a customer to meet the following requirements:

- The platform must be deployed into five physically separate sites.

- The sites are spread across multiple regions.

- Some sites require more than one vCenter Server.

- The platform must provide an administrator with the ability to access virtual infrastructure components across all sites from a single management tool instance.

Which single sign-on (SSO) design recommendation will meet these requirements?

6. How do you determine the network protocol needs for a vSphere network design?

7. 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 support the concurrent running of 1,000 virtual machines

- The production environment must be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers

- All virtual machines must be capable of running in either data center.

- The two data centers are currently connected to each other through a single but diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency link.

- The link between the two data centers is capable of supporting a round-trip time (RTT) of 150 ms

- The existing server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be deployed using vSAN ReadyNodes

- The service owner has stated that it is critical to ensure the availability target of 99.9%

- All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service

- The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is five minutes

- The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is four hours

Which two elements represent risks to the successful delivery of this solution? (Choose two.)

8. In the context of the AMPRSS framework, what does "Manageability" refer to?

9. What is the purpose of determining business continuity requirements for a vSphere design?

10. An architect is preparing a design for a company planning digital transformation.

During the requirements gathering workshop, the following requirements (REQ) and constraints (CON) are identified:

- REQ01 The platform must host different types of workloads including applications that must be compliant with internal security standard.

- REQ02 The infrastructure must initially run 100 virtual machines.

- REQ03 Ten of the virtual machines must be compliant with internal security standard.

- REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.

- CON01 The customer has already purchased the licenses as part of another project.

- CON02 The customer has five physical servers that must be reused.

Additionally, based on resource requirements, four physical servers will be enough to run all workloads.

Which recommendation should the architect make to meet requirements while minimizing project costs?

11. What is the primary purpose of gathering and analyzing performance requirements?

12. An architect is designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) that will consist of 100 branch sites connected to a single VMware vCenter Server within the primary data center.

To allow for the use of existing automation scripts, there is a requirement to replicate the names of the virtual distributed port groups across all sites.

The procurement team purchases licensing and there is no further budget allocated.

Which design decision should the architect make to meet this requirement?

13. A customer defines a requirement to minimize the vMotion migration time during a maintenance period. The servers being used are equipped with eight 1 GbE network adapters.

Per the defined logical network configuration, there are two network adapters each used for:

- Management traffic

- vMotion traffic

- iSCSI traffic

- Virtual machine traffic.

Which design decision should the architect make to meet the customer requirement?

14. What is the purpose of creating a vSphere storage logical design?

15. What is the purpose of gathering and analyzing network requirements?

16. When performing a vSphere upgrade, what is the best practice to ensure compatibility with existing hardware, software, and third-party plugins?

17. What is the primary function of vCenter Server in a vSphere environment?

18. In a vSphere environment, what is the purpose of a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity rule?

19. An architect is tasked with recommending a solution for a company that is running out of VLANs. Currently the company is running two separate data centers based on vSphere including an Enterprise Plus license.

In the first data center, the problem was solved by using VMware NSX and overlay network. In the second data center, there is currently no VMware NSX implementation in place and no budget for additional licenses.

What should the architect recommend as a potential solution to provide support for additional VLANs?

20. An architect is redesigning a storage environment to provide simplified management of a VMware environment. The administrators have expressed the need to provision storage and apply a custom set of array features granularly to virtual machines. They will re-use their existing shared storage platform as it does support all modern VMware storage integrations.

Which two technologies or features are needed to support the requirements of this project? (Choose two.)

21. An architect decides to separate virtual desktops and application servers into separate vSphere clusters to meet security and management requirements.

What are two implications of this design decision? (Choose two.)

22. What does addressing scalability requirements involve in a vSphere design?

23. Which requirements help determine the amount of data storage needed to store and manage the system's data?

24. An architect is planning the physical server configuration for a vSAN-based infrastructure.

Which operations mode should a RAID controller support to minimize potential server downtime during physical disk failures?

25. A customer provides the following list of requirements for their vSphere platform:

- REQ01 The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure.

- REQ02 The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days.

- REQ03 All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes.

- REQ04 The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts.

- REQ05 The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines.

Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

26. What does evaluating storage protocols in a given scenario involve?

27. An architect is designing a new greenfield environment that will install ESXi on local disks. There is a requirement to streamline initial and future installations of ESXi hosts.

Which configuration option should the architect recommend for installing ESXi hosts to meet these requirements?

28. What does the term "Recoverability" refer to in the AMPRSS framework?

29. What are assumptions in the context of design?

30. Which vSphere feature is used to allocate CPU and memory resources dynamically among virtual machines within a cluster, based on predefined resource allocation rules?

31. During the installation of ESXi, what is the minimum number of network interfaces required for management and vMotion traffic, respectively?

32. What is the primary purpose of determining security requirements for a vSphere design?

33. During a requirements gathering workshop to design a physical to virtual migration, the customer provides the following information:

- There is no physical firewall in the data center with no anticipated plans for a future network refresh.

- Leveraging the virtual infrastructure to mitigate the lack of network security must be addressed in the design.

- All physical servers to be migrated exist on the same VLAN.

Which recommendation should the architect make to address the customer requirement with regard to virtual networking?

34. 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?

35. How are workload and management clusters different?

36. What do data protection requirements for a vSphere design focus on?

37. Which VMware product offers a software-defined storage solution, providing distributed storage architecture that spans multiple vSphere clusters?

38. An architect is designing a series of new vSphere environments for an organization. The environments will be deployed in their US-East and US-West region data centers. Each data center may have one or more dedicated vSphere environments. Only the vSphere environments within a data center will be configured with Enhanced Linked Mode.

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has authorized the use of VMware vRealize Automation Cloud for automation. The build team creates standardized virtual machine images for various operating systems in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and publishes the latest version on an asneeded basis to an internal HTTPS-accessible repository.

The architect must design a content library topology that meets the following requirements:

- A localized content library must be available in each data center.

- Each content library must be updated when an image is updated and released by the build team.

- The cloud automation platform must be able to consume the latest approved content library images.

- It must leverage the existing build team processes.

What should the architect recommend to meet the requirements?

39. An architect will be taking over control of a former Linux server fleet and repurposing the hardware into a new vSphere cluster. The current environment is already connected to the network but the hosts do not have any local disks. Since the fleet hardware is uniform, the architect can use a single ESXi image.

All hosts within the cluster have the same CPU and memory capacity.

Which ESXi deployment method should the architect use?

40. A customer has six hosts available in a cluster. When running at full capacity, all virtual machines can be run on two hosts.

How many hosts can the customer place into maintenance mode at the same time while still providing N+2 resiliency to the cluster?

41. What is the primary purpose of data protection requirements for a vSphere design?

42. Which requirement focuses on the uninterrupted operation of the vSphere environment during disruptions?

43. An architect is tasked with designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) using VMware vSAN. The architect uses a storage assessment tool to determine the storage requirements for the new vSAN cluster. The new SDDC is going to be deployed into the existing data center and must be connected to a shared core network switch.

The architect decides to use vSAN ReadyNodes with the following configuration:

- Two disk groups with

- Write Intensive NVMe 800 GB drive for cache

- Four 3.84 TB Mixed Use NVMe for capacity Four 10 GbE ports.

Which element represents a risk that should be included in this design?

44. Following a company merger, there are two data centers running vSphere environments. Both data centers are leveraging separate Layer 3 vMotion networks.

Which requirement must be met in order to enable vMotion migration between these locations?

45. During the upgrade process of VMware tools on virtual machines, what is the correct sequence to ensure smooth compatibility?

46. What does the hypervisor deployment method determine?

47. An architect is designing a new vSphere platform to meet a list of requirements from the security team.

Which two requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

48. What do risks in a design represent?

49. An architect is designing a new platform. Existing virtual machines will be migrated to this platform.

The migration process is defined as follows:

- A migration host will be loaded with virtual machines from the old platform.

- The migration host will be added to the desired new cluster.

- Virtual machines compute and storage will be migrated to desired hosts in the new platform.

- The migration host will be removed and added back to the old platform so the process can restart.

The following characteristics are noted:

- A total of 800 virtual machines will be migrated.

- A total of 50 hosts will be available in the new platform.

- The migration host will have four paths to each of 512 connected LUNs.

Which size vCenter Server should be specified for the new platform?

50. A customer requests a review of its current vSphere platform design.

The following information is noted:

There are three different workload profiles for the virtual machines:

- Tier-1 virtual machines operate resource-intensive applications and require dedicated allocations for CPU and RAM.

- Tier-2 virtual machines operate internet-facing applications and require access to externally facing networks.

- Tier-3 virtual machines operate platform management tools such as vCenter Server and have different lifecycle management requirements.

- Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines are all hosted on a single large vSphere cluster.

- The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has raised concerns that hosting externally facing applications alongside management tools does not meet internal compliance standards.

- The Operations team has raised concerns about Tier-1 virtual machines negatively impacting the performance of vCenter Server.

- The Operations lead has stated that management changes have consistently been rejected by application teams.

As a result of the review, which recommendation should the architect make regarding the design of this platform?

51. An architect is finalizing the design for a new vCenter Server High Availability deployment.

What is one thing the architect must document in the design?

52. How do you determine compute resource requirements for vSphere hosts?

53. As part of a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirements for the design of a new greenfield virtual infrastructure:

- Some applications have a latency that must be less than 5 minutes.

- The solution must be able to support a workload growth rate of 10% per year.

Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

54. 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?

55. Refer to the exhibit. During a requirements gathering workshop, a customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):

The customer states that there is no application level availability for legacy applications.

Which recommendation could the architect make to meet the customer’s high availability requirements for the legacy applications virtual machines?

56. An architect is considering placement of virtual machines within an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC).

During the discovery phase, the following information is documented:

Cluster One

- Six ESXi hosts

- vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1

- Proactive HA is enabled and set to automated |

- Fully Automated vSphere DRS

- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is enabled

Cluster Two

- Eight ESXi hosts

- vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1

- Proactive HA is disabled ✑ Partially Automated vSphere DRS

- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled

Cluster Three

- Three ESXi hosts

- vSphere HA with admission control is disabled

- Proactive HA is not supported

- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled

Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1

- Memory sharing techniques should not be used

- Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure if resources are available

Automated initial virtual machine placement

Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2

- Memory sharing techniques should not be used

- Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure regardless of available resources

- Automated initial virtual machine placement.

Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements? (Choose two.)