Question 1

A critical VM in your organization is performing poorly. A review of the performance charts shows that the VM has high CPU ready values. CPU usage for the VM is around 70% consistently. The performance of other VMs on this host is not as important as the critical VM. What actions should be taken to improve performance? (Choose two.)

Options :

A : Increase the CPU shares for the critical VM.

B : Enable vNUMA on the VM.

C : Configure additional vCPUs on the critical VM.

D : Reduce the vCPU count on VMs with lower CPU utilization.

Answer: A,D

Question 2

An administrator is performing maintenance activities and discovers that a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore has a lot more used capacity than expected. The datastore contains 10 virtual machines (VMs) and, when the administrator reviews the contents of the associated datastore, discovers that five virtual machines have a snapshot file (-delta.vmdk files) that has not been modified in over 12 months. The administrator checks the Snapshot Manager within the vSphere Client and confirms that there are no snapshots visible.

Which task should the administrator complete on the virtual machines to free up datastore space?

Options :

A : Consolidate the snapshots for each VM.

B : Inflate the disk files for each VM.

C : Delete all snapshots for each VM.

D : Storage vMotion each VM to another datastore.

Answer: A

Question 3

Which of the following configurations are not supported with Storage IO Control? (Choose three.)

Options :

A : Raw Device Mappings

B : Datastores that are backed by NFS storage

C : Datastores managed by multiple vCenter instances

D : Datastores that utilize SATA drives

E : Datastores that span multiple LUNs (extents)

Answer: A,C,E

Question 4

You have many VMs with thin-provisioned disks on a datastore. The datastore currently has plenty of free space, but you are concerned about possible problems in the future. You would like to be alerted when the thin provisioning threshold on the storage array exceeds for volumes backing the datastore.

Which statements regarding this configuration are true?

Options :

A : You should configure a Datastore Usage on Disk alarm on the datastore to avoid thin provisioning too much space

B : You should configure a Thin-provisioned volume capacity threshold exceeded alarm on the datastore

C : The VMDKs on thick-provisioned VMs may grow over time, taking up additional space on the datastore

D : The VMDKs on thin-provisioned VMs may grow over time, taking up additional space on the datastore

Answer: B,D

Question 5

An administrator wants to use tag-based placement rules on their virtual machine disks using VMware vCenter.

Which option would allow the administrator to achieve this?

Options :

A : Storage Policy Based Management

B : Storage I/O Control

C : vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)

D : vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Answer: A