An administrator is planning to upgrade a VMware vCenter instance to version 8. It is currently integrated with the following solutions:
* VMware Aria Automation
* VMware Cloud Director
Which tool can the administrator use to run Interoperability reports before the upgrade process?
Answer : C
The tool that can be used to run interoperability reports before upgrading a vCenter Server instance is vCenter Server Update Planner, which allows checking compatibility with other VMware products.
An administrator is tasked with configuring an appropriate Single Sign-On (SSO) solution for VMware vCenter based on the following criteria:
* The solution should support the creation of Enhanced Link Mode groups.
* All user accounts are stored within a single Active Directory domain and the solution must support only this Active Directory domain as the identity source.
* All user account password and account lockout policies must be managed within the Active Directory domain.
* The solution should support token-based authentication.
Which SSO solution should the administrator choose based on the criteria?
An administrator has been notified that a number of hosts are not compliant with the company policy for time synchronization.
The relevant portion of the policy states:
* All physical servers must synchronize time with an external time source that is accurate to the microsecond. Which step should the administrator take to ensure compliance with the policy?
Answer : B
To comply with the policy of synchronizing time with an external source that is accurate to the microsecond, the administrator needs to ensure that each ESXi host is configured to use a PTP source, which provides higher accuracy than NTP.
An administrator is tasked with applying updates to a vSphere cluster running vSAN using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Downtime to the ESXI hosts must be minimal while the work Is completed.
The administrator has already completed the following steps and no errors have been returned:
* Downloaded all applicable software and created a new Image
* Attached the new Image to the cluster and run a compliance check against the Image for the cluster
* Ran a remediation pre-check for the cluster
Which two series of steps should the administrator perform to start the remediation of the cluster using the new image? (Choose two.)
An administrator is responsible for performing maintenance tasks on a vSphere cluster. The cluster has the following configuration:
. Identically configured vSphere ESXi hosts (esx01, esx02, esx03 and esx04)
* All workloads are deployed into a single VMFS datastore provided by the external storage array
* vSphere High Availability (HA) has not been enabled
* vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) has not been enabled
Currently, a critical production application workload (VM1) is running on esx01.
Given this scenario, which two actions are required to ensure VM1 continues to run when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode? (Choose two.)
Answer : A, D
Two actions that are required to ensure VM1 continues to run when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode are enabling fully automated DRS on the cluster, which allows balancing the workload across hosts and migrating VMs without user intervention; and manually live migrating VM1 to another host within the cluster using vSphere vMotion, which allows moving a running VM without downtime.
Which two tasks can be completed using vSphere LifeCycle Manager? (Choose two.)
A vSphere environment is experiencing intermittent short bursts of CPU contention, causing brief production outages for some of the virtual machines (VMs). To understand the cause of the issue, the administrator wants to observe near real-time statistics for all VMs.
Which two vSphere reporting tools could the administrator use? (Choose two.)
Answer : A, E
Advanced Performance Charts and esxtop are both vSphere reporting tools that can be used to observe near real-time statistics for all VMs. Advanced Performance Charts provides a graphical view of performance data, while esxtop is a command-line tool that provides more detailed information.