ESXi hosts with 10Gbps network cards are attached to a distributed switch. The administrator has upgraded to NIOC3 and wants to allow vMotion traffic to use as much bandwidth as possible but must ensure that other services always have sufficient bandwidth.
How can this be done?
A cluster with two resource pools named RP-PROD and RP-DEV is configured based on custom requirements. A vSphere administrator temporarily disables DRS for this cluster.
Upon re-enabling DRS, how would the resource pool configuration have changed?
In vSphere 6.5, a virtual machine is thinly-provisioned on a VMFS6 datastore. The administrator deleted a large file within the guest OS. The freed blocks in the datastore are no longer needed by the VM.
Which feature in vSphere 6.5 allows the backing storage to automatically reclaim the freed blocks?
An administrator is attempting to access an ESXi host via the DCUI but is unable to do so.
Which could be two possible causes? (Choose two.)
A domain user is able to successfully log into the vSphere Web Client, but notices that the vCenter Server system does not appear in the inventory.
Which is the cause of this situation?
Where would a vSphere administrator find general vCenter Server logs on a vCenter Server Appliance?
Which two encryption keys does the host use when encrypting virtual machine files? (Choose two.)
Which is the purpose of VM Component Protection (VMCP)?
An administrator must collect diagnostic information following a failed ESXi host upgrade. Which command should the administrator run?
After deploying the vCenter Server Appliance, an administrator can log into the vSphere Web Client as “administrator@vSphere.local”, but not with Active Directory domain credentials.
Which action will troubleshoot this?
A company has requested that a plan for Auto Deploy be built using VMware-recommended best practices for networking.
Which two considerations adhere to VMware-recommended networking best practices for Auto Deploy? (Choose two.)
Which component must be deployed before using encrypted virtual machines in a vSphere 6.5 environment?
The administrator set Local OS as the default identity source of vCenter Single Sign-On. A user named “user1” belongs to domain “mydomain” and tries to log in to vCenter Single Sign-On.
Which two user names are appropriate to use for login? (Choose two.)
When upgrading a standalone vCenter Single Sign-On Server version 5.5 to version 6.5, which will be the final deployment type?
Which iSCSI initiator type can be used with any network interface card?
An administrator is using virtual machine encryption in their vSphere 6.5 environment. The Key Management Server (KMS) has experienced a critical failure.
Which two statements are true about VM encryption when the KMS is not available? (Choose two.)
Which are the two storage options for a Content Library when using the VMware vCenter Appliance? (Choose two.)
Which two permissions are required to migrate a virtual machine with Storage vMotion? (Choose two.)
An administrator wants to create and use a vApp.
Which pre-requisite must be met before the administrator can create a vApp?
An administrator is attempting to power on a virtual machine with 32GB of memory. The operation fails with the following error:
Could not power on VM: No space left on device
Checking the space on the virtual machine’s datastore, there is 30GB free.
Which action would allow the VM to power on?
Which statement applies to the vSphere Replication appliance?
What external load balancers are supported in vsphere 6.5? (Choose three.)
Which two statements are true about Highly Available vSphere Auto Deploy infrastructure? (Choose two.)
Two sibling resource pools named RP-CHILD-A and RP-CHILD-B have these configurations:
• RP-CHILD-A has an expandable reservation and memory shares set to ‘2000’ with 10 VMs, each with 4GB of RAM
• RP-CHILD-B has an expandable reservation and memory shares set to ‘4000’ with 30 VMs, each with 4GB of RAM
Which statement is true during times of memory contention?
Which two configuration options can exclude virtual disks from snapshot operations? (Choose two.)
Which three storage protocols are supported by Virtual Volumes? (Choose three.)
A vSphere Administrator has VM Component Protection (VMCP) enabled, but the VM was not restarted when one of the VMFS datastores experienced an All Paths Down (APD) failure.
What two scenarios would explain why the virtual machine was not restarted? (Choose two.)
Which two statements about vCenter HA are correct? (Choose two.)
An administrator is upgrading their external Platform Services Controllers and vCenter Server Appliance, and also migrating vSphere Update Manager version 6.0 to version 6.5.
Which is the correct order to upgrade these components?
An administrator is trying to set up Host Partial Failure Response, but the Automated option is grayed out. What can the administrator change to enable the Automated option?
Virtual machines that are known to run read-intensive applications have begun to underperform. Which action can improve performance?
How can an administrator exclude Encryption rights from a support engineer?
A scripted upgrade of ESXi fails due to an incorrect parameter in the upgrade script.
What file must the administrator modify to correct the problem?
Which two storage technologies are supported for MSCS? (Choose two.)
Upgrading vCenter Server with Microsoft SQL database fails with the following error message:
What could cause this error?
What three options can improve network performance for a virtual machine? (Choose three.)
vSphere 6.5 DRS is now Network-Aware. Based on network utilization, when will DRS balance VMs?
The networking team has requested to have a dedicated network for iSCSI traffic. This task has been assigned to the vSphere Administrator.
What is the VMware-recommended way to accomplish this?
What are three benefits of using a few large-capacity LUNs instead of many small-capacity LUNs? (Choose three.)
Which statement regarding datastore clusters meets VMware's recommended best practices?