This certification validates practical ability to design, deploy, and operate scalable cloud services, with emphasis on cloud architecture and operations. It is intended for professionals who manage reliable, secure, and cost-aware environments.
Due to limited budget and hardware, an administrator is constrained to a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) consolidated architecture of seven ESXi hosts in a single cluster. An application that consists of two virtual machines hosted on this infrastructure requires minimal disruption to storage IO during business hours.
Which two options that would be most effective in mitigating this risk without reducing availability? (Choose two.)
As part of a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployment, a customer is planning to implement vSphere IaaS control plane.
What component could be installed and enabled to implement the solution?
An architect is planning resources for a new cluster that will be integrated into an existing VI Workload Domain. The cluster's primary purpose is to support a mission-critical application with five resource-intensive virtual machines.
Which design recommendation should the architect provide to prevent resource bottlenecks while meeting the N+1 availability requirement and keeping the overall investment cost minimal?
An architect was requested to recommend a solution for migrating 5000 VMs from an existing vSphere environment to a new VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure.
Which feature or tool can be recommended by the architect to minimize the downtime and automate the process?
An architect is tasked to updating the design for an existing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployment to include four vSAN ESA ready nodes.
The existing deployment compromises of the following:
Four homogenous vSAN ESXi ready nodes in the management domain
Four homogenous ESXi nodes with iSCSI principal storage in workload domain A
What should the architect recommend when including this additional capacity for application workloads?