An architect is responsible for the lifecycle management design for a brownfield vSphere-based solution. The following information has been provided during initial meetings around the new solution: Existing heterogeneous server hardware will be used to provide the hosting platform. The available hardware is: 10 servers that contain 2 x 20-Core Intel Xeon processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor A 10 servers that contain 2 x 24-Core Intel Xeon processors and 768 GB RAM from Vendor A 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor C All of the hardware is currently listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). All existing server hardware has 36 months vendor support remaining. The requirements from the customer are: REQ001 - The solution must support the hosting of 5,000 workloads across two physical sites. REQ002 - The solution should minimize the number of clusters. REQ003 - The solution must ensure that there is no impact to service when completing upgrades. Given the resource requirements needed for the solution, the architect has calculated that all of the existing servers will be required to provide sufficient resources for the new environment. The Intel-based servers will be deployed to the primary site and the AMD-based servers will be deployed to the secondary site. Which four additional design decisions should the architect make to ensure all requirements can be met? (Choose four.)
Select an option, then click Submit answer.
Reference / correct answer:
The solution will create an Intel-based 20-node vSphere cluster in the primary site and an AMD-based 30-node vSphere cluster in the secondary site.
Most accepted answer: A. The solution will create an Intel-based 20-node vSphere cluster in the primary site and an AMD-based 30-node vSphere cluster in the secondary site.
Community votes: A=7, B=2, C=7, D=5, E=4, F=7
Selected Answer: ACEF A, C, E, F. Ryzz explained it perfectly. upvoted 2 times
Selected Answer: ACEF A: Obvious, minimal amount of clusters, 1 cluster per sites addresses this requirement C: N+1 Redundancy - This addresses the upgrade no impact requirement E: The secondary site is a heterogeneous cluster, using multiple vendors, you cant have multiple images in a single cluster. So Baselines with VUM are needed instead F: All Intel servers are from a single vendor, so assumption is they will support a single image. There is no mention of having servers powered off when capacity isnt needed or VCF being installed (brownfield), so that rules out A&G upvoted 2 times
Selected Answer: ACDF VCF is not mentioned in the question, then SDDC Manager is not correct A, C, D and F upvoted 2 times nemisis95 4 months, 1 week ago It is E, not D. D is using vLCM images - which is wrong. It should be using vLCM baselines due to the following: AMD-based 30-node vSphere cluster in the secondary site The AMD's - 2 vendors 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor C upvoted 1 times ...
It is E, not D. D is using vLCM images - which is wrong. It should be using vLCM baselines due to the following: AMD-based 30-node vSphere cluster in the secondary site The AMD's - 2 vendors 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor C upvoted 1 times
Selected Answer: ACEF Minimum amount of clusters is 2, so A is ok. C is ok complaint with REQ003. VCF is not mentioned in the question so B is not valid. Two vendors in the second AMD site means single image cannot be used, so baselines are required so E. Finally F, since site one is homogenous and can utilize LCM Images. https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/managing-host-and-cluster-lifecycle-8-0/about-vsphere-lifecycle-manager-new/system-requirements-for-using-vlcm.html upvoted 1 times