An IT department is experiencing random hardware failures that are costing the company money. The CIO is looking for technical support beyond traditional break/fix with enhanced visibility and proactive insights into the environment at no additional cost.
Which VMware service meets the needs of the CIO? (Choose the best answer.)
A. VMware Global Support Services
B. VMware Premier Support
C. VMware Skyline
D. vRealize Operations Manager
Which two statements are true regarding the use of firmware update packages in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)
A. A hardware support manager must be registered as a vCenter Server extension.
B. The firmware and drivers add-on are distributed through the official VMware online depot.
C. The firmware and drivers add-on can be used on clusters that are managed with baselines.
D. The firmware and drivers add-on can add or remove components from the ESXi base image.
E. The firmware and drivers add-on is provided by a third-party vendor.
An administrator is running a variety of vSphere 6.5 cluster configurations and is tasked with upgrading to vSphere 7.0.
Which two conditions could cause potential conflicts or outages to the virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)
A. The use of a Windows vCenter Server system
B. Datastores attached to the hosts based on VMFS3
C. The upgrade of a vSphere Distributed Switch with VMs attached
D. The upgrade of an external platform services controller
E. The use of third-party custom vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) installed on the ESXi hosts
An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment. Which statement is true regarding this upgrade? (Choose the best answer.)
A. An ESXi 7.0 host will NOT recognize a VMFS3 datastore.
B. VMFS3 is supported with ESXi 7.0 to store boot configurations only.
C. A VMFS5 datastore CANNOT be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required.
D. An ESXi 7.0 host can automatically upgrade a VMFS5 datastore.
vCenter Server experiences a catastrophic failure and the administrator must restore from a vCenter Server backup stored on an FTP server. What must the administrator do to restore vCenter Server? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Use the vSphere Client to deploy the appliance onto an ESXi host and restore the vCenter Server data from the backup.
B. Use the vCenter Server Management Interface to restore the vCenter Server data, and power on the appliance.
C. Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and use the vSphere Client to restore vCenter Server data from the backup.
D. Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and restore the vCenter Server data from the backup.
Refer to the exhibit.
Which two migration methods can an administrator use to move virtual machines from the SA-Dev cluster to the SA-Compute cluster? (Choose two.)
A. Cold migration of compute resource only
B. Cold migration of storage only
C. Hot migration of compute resource and storage resource
D. Hot migration of compute resource only
E. Cold migration of compute resource and storage resource
An administrator wants to configure vCenter Server High Availability so that each node is located in a different data center. Which requirement must be met? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Each node must be configured with at least three network adapters.
B. Network latency between the nodes must be less than 10 milliseconds.
C. All nodes must be located on a vSAN datastore in each data center.
D. A vCenter Server license must be assigned to each node.
Which vSphere feature provides for continuous local data center availability? (Choose the best answer.)
A. vSphere Fault Tolerance
B. Cross vCenter Migration
C. vSphere Storage vMotion
D. vSphere Replication
Refer to the exhibit.
Which element is missing from this vCenter High Availability (HA) cluster? (Choose the best answer.)
A. A secondary witness node
B. The management interface on the passive node
C. The connection between the active and passive nodes
D. The management interface and connection on the witness node
Which feature can an administrator configure to have a copy of critical virtual machines in another cluster? (Choose the best answer.)
A. vSphere Storage vMotion
B. vSphere Fault Tolerance
C. vSphere Replication
D. Instant Clone