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.)

1. A. The backup service will store data in a secure facility
2. B. The backup service has sufficient capacity for the new requirements
3. C. The customer will update their hardware standard to support rack mount servers
4. D. All virtual machines will be deployed with the same resource profile for production and development
5. E. The clusters will have a minimum redundancy of N+1

Correct Answer: BE

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer and learns that the customer has:
A single vSphere cluster
Two storage arrays with different RAID capabilities
Which two design decisions should the architect make to maximize data availability and data performance for this customer? (Choose two.)

1. A. Use Storage DRS.
2. B. Use VMDK anti-affinity rules.
3. C. Use multiple datastores for heartbeat.
4. D. Use a minimum of three storage arrays.
5. E. Use VM to host DRS rules.

Correct Answer: AC

An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer to meet the following requirements:
The solution must use investments in existing storage array that supports both block and file storage.
The solution must support the ability to migrate workloads between hosts within a cluster.
The solution must support resource management priorities.
The solution must support the ability to connect virtual machines directly to LUNs.
The solution should use existing 32G fabric infrastructure.
There is no budget for additional physical hardware.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?

1. A. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel (FC).
2. B. The ESXi hosts will leverage iSCSI.
3. C. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
4. D. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS.

Correct Answer: A

A Cloud Service Provider wants to introduce backup as a service for a customer’s vSphere-based virtual machines.
The following information is noted:
All top-of-rack (ToR) switches are 10 GbE and fully populated
The backup traffic must not impact existing services
Which two recommendations should the architect make to help the customer incorporate the service? (Choose two.)

1. A. Enable and tag traffic on the backup distributed port group
2. B. Add a new two-port 10 GbE NIC per ESXi host
3. C. Replace the existing NIC with a two-port 25 GbE NIC per ESXi host
4. D. Match the Class of Service (CoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) values to the physical network
5. E. Create a new virtual switch using the 1 GbE uplinks

Correct Answer: AB

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?

1. A. Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines using dedicated distributed virtual switches (DVS)
2. B. Separate Tier-2 virtual machines onto a dedicated cluster
3. C. Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines onto dedicated clusters
4. D. Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines using resource pools and shares

Correct Answer: C