vCenter Management 5.5 VTSP Test Questions & Answers

VMware vSphere vCenter [V5.5] You are installing a vCenter instance and Single Sign-On (SSO) on a Server. During the SSO installation you experience issues and cannot complete the installation. What is the most likely cause of a failure at this stage? Choose one. A: 1 The hostname is not DNS resolvable The correct network ports are not open The SSO server is not correctly connected to Active Directory Web Client Server must be registered first Your customer is designing a new Virtual Infrastructure that has to be able to support the rapid deployment of additional capacity. They need to ensure that new vSphere hosts that are brought online are rapidly and reliably provisioned with a minimum of manual intervention. They have confirmed that they want the solution to install ESXi once only; after it has been deployed they want the server to boot from disk and be re-deployed on every boot. Which solution should you recommend for this customer? Choose one. A: 1 Auto-deploy with Stateful install Auto-deploy with Stateless caching Auto-deploy with Stateless profiles Auto-deploy with Stateful caching Your customer wishes to implement a DR solution for their vSphere 5.5 environment. The production environment has 5 vSphere hosts and is expected to meet the customers computing needs for the next two years. Their Tier 1 applications, which they wish to protect at the DR site, consists of 5 infrastructure services servers and an application cluster of 8 virtual machines which you have established can be supported by just two physical ESXi hosts. Which version of vCenter should you include in your proposal? Choose one. A: 3/2 vCenter Server for Essentials vCenter Server Foundation vCenter Server Standard vCenter Server Enterprise You are working on an initial proposal for a large scale virtualization installation involving multiple vCenter servers in datacenters distributed across a number of regions. The customer wants to ensure that Single Sign-On is protected in case of a failure of a virtual machine or ESXi host. Which two of the following are recommended in order to ensure that SSO is protected? Choose two. A: 1/3 Ensure that Single Sign-On is installed with vCenter Server on a single Virtual Machine Ensure that Single Sign-On is installed on a separate Virtual Machine to vCenter Server Ensure that vCenter Heartbeat or vCenter HA is used to protect the vCenter Server Ensure that vCenter Heartbeat is installed on a separate Virtual Machine with Single Sign- On When building the design specification for a new vSphere 5.5, you have to define the components that will be configured to ensure that the IT Infrastructure Management team have visibility on critical status changes in the environment such as hardware failures, excess CPU or network utilization, and that they have automated procedures in place to assist compliance and standardization. Which two vCenter Infrastructure Management Features will you need to focus on to ensure your design meets these specific customer needs? Choose two. A: 1/2 Alarms Orchestrator Resource Maps vCenter Plugins

Which identity sources are available to use with Single Sign-On in vSphere 5.5? A: 1/3 Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication) NIS OpenLDAP OpenID You are developing a solution for a customer who has indicated that the following features must be supported in your proposal: vMotion, HA, DRS, Distributed vSwitches and vSphere Replication. Which of the following components must be included in your design in order to meet the customer’s requirements? Choose one. A: 1 vSphere Web Client vSphere Single Sign On vSphere Orchestrator vSphere Update Manager Your customer has asked that you implement a solution that will automatically manage storage so that virtual machine files are migrated to avoid I/O and space utilization bottlenecks on the datastores. The customer has a specific application cluster where they want to ensure that the database disks are kept separate from the application disks. Which of the following must be part of your solution? Choose two. A: 1/2 Enterprise Plus License VMDK Anti-Affinity rules for the Application VMs' database disks VMDK Affinity rules for the Application VMs’ database disks VM Anti-Affinity rule to keep the application VMs Your customer has an existing vSphere infrastructure that relies on a number of Microsoft Windows servers. The majority of their infrastructure servers are Linux based and they want to reduce the number of Windows Servers in their environment if possible. Which of the following vSphere 5.5 components and features will help them reduce, and possibly eliminate, the need for this customer to continue supporting Windows in their environment? Choose two. A: 1/2 vCenter Server Appliance vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) vCenter Inventory Service vCenter Orchestrator Your customer is deploying a new vSphere environment with multiple vCenter Servers. In order to manage 10,000 virtual machines they have decided to install 10 vCenter instances. Which two key shared services should they install on a single central server before deploying the vCenter instances? A: 1 vSphere Web Client and Single Sign-On vCenter Server and the inventory Service vSphere Web Client and the Inventory Service vCenter Server and Single Sign-On When completing the vCenter Installable installation for a new vSphere 5.5 environment, you find that although you can ‘ping’ the ESXi hosts from the vCenter Server, and get no errors when testing the network from the ESXi console, you cannot successfully add any ESXi hosts to your new vCenter installation. Which of the following are items you should check in order to resolve this problem? Choose one. A: 1 Check whether there is a firewall or NAT between vCenter and the ESXi hosts Check that the account you are using to log in to vCenter has the rights to add hosts Check that the ESXi hosts have had their correct licenses applied Check that the ESXi management IP addresses are in the same subnet as vCenter

Your customer is upgrading their environment from a vSphere Essentials Plus kit with three hosts to a much larger environment where they will require at least 600 hosts and expect this will need to support up to 6000 virtual machines eventually. They have said that they would prefer to use the vCenter Appliance in their solution, but you cannot confirm this until they answer which of the following questions? A: 2 Are they able to deploy a virtual appliance to their Active Directory? Are they able to deploy and support an Oracle Database? Are they able to deploy and support an IBM DB2 Database? Are they able to deploy and support a Microsoft SQL Database? Your customer has two instances of vCenter Server 5.5 running on the same site. One instance is fully installed locally in a Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine and the other is a virtual appliance. They are both running Single Sign-On and are part of the same authentication domain. What is the expected behavior with regards to replication of users and groups? Choose one. A: 1 Automatic replication of Users and Groups will occur between between each vCenter Server Replication of Users and Groups is a manual process and must be initiated vCenter Server Appliance and vCenter Installable cannot replicate User and Group information You must install each vCenter in Linked Mode to replicate User and Group information Your customer has an environment that will be used to host approximately ten virtual machines. The customer has stated that they must be able to support several features that you have confirmed are supported by all vCenter editions, but you have to clarify which vCenter editions should be recommended based on their needs. Which of the following Questions must you ask? Choose two. A:1/2 Will the environment grow to exceed 20 workloads? Are they likely to require more than 3 ESXi servers? Will they need to support vMotion? Do they plan to use Distributed vSwitches? Your customer has said that storage allocation decisions are causing serious administration issues for their Virtual Infrastructure administrators and they need a solution that will allow them to simplify or eliminate this task. Which vSphere technology will allow them to specify the storage to be used for a VM in terms of capability rather than requiring them to choose a specific datastore location for each VM? Choose one. A: 1 Storage Profiles Storage DRS Storage IO Control VAAI You are preparing the design specification for a vSphere datacenter that will need to support 2000 virtual machines on 50 hosts. The customer can allocate database capacity for vCenter from their MS SQL database server if required. The customer uses mostly Linux machines and would prefer not to add another Windows server to their environment. Which version of vCenter and which database should you suggest for this customer? Choose one. A: 4 vCenter Installable and the built in Oracle database vCenter Appliance and the built in Oracle database vCenter Installable and the built in Microsoft SQL database vCenter Appliance and the built-in vPostgres database

Your customer has a number of large vSphere datacenters with a large team of vSphere administrators. With their hardware vendor of choice, they already have the ability to log support tickets online and automatically dispatch replacement hardware. The IT organization has been given challenging new targets to improve overall service levels, and your customer is looking at options to help them further improve their overall system downtime record. Which new VMware vSphere plug-in should you suggest that they implement to help them achieve these objectives? Choose one. A: 1 VMware vCenter Support Assistant VMware vCenter Infrastructure Manage. VMware vCenter Log Analyzer. VMware Remote Support Assistant. Your customer has specified that they require a solution that can automatically restart virtual machines reliably if their physical host crashes. Which vSphere feature provides this functionality? Choose one. A: 1 HA DRS DPM SDRS Your customer is concerned that vCenter will become a significant risk in their environment if it is virtualized in the same environment that it manages. You point out to them that, in fact, running vCenter as a VM is not only supported by VMware but is recommended because - why? Choose two reasons. A: 1/3 vSphere High Availability can and will restart a failed vCenter Server on another host in a vSphere cluster if the host it is running on fails vSphere Fault tolerance can be used to run a secondary copy of the vCenter VM for immediate failover on another host if the primary copy fails The vCenter appliance can only be deployed as a virtual machine vCenter can only be deployed as a virtual machine with vSphere 5.5 Your customer has been troubleshooting performance issues in some of their Windows virtual machines. They cannot correlate the user reported performance issues with specific events using the Windows Perfmon CPU and disk counters that have always provided them with the information they need to resolve these issues on physical systems. What vSphere component can be used to help them accurately monitor the performance of these virtual machines? Choose one. A: 1 VMware Tools Perfmon Counter vSphere Orchestrator vSphere Performance Analyzer VMware Horizon View Your customer has a large vSphere environment supporting 50 vSphere hosts and almost 1000 virtual machines. They can support either Microsoft SQL or Oracle databases and want to install vCenter in a configuration that guarantees zero downtime in the event of hardware failure. Which vCenter configuration must they choose? Choose one. A: 4 vCenter Appliance with vSphere Fault Tolerance vCenter Appliance with vCenter Heartbeat vCenter Installable with vSphere Fault Tolerance vCenter Installable with vCenter Heartbeat

Your customer has specified that they want to acquire and retain the maximum possible level of statistical data for the vSphere 5.5 environment that you are building. Which of the following are tasks that you must carry out to ensure that this requirement is met without impacting performance or stability of the vCenter server? Choose two. A: 1/2 Use the vCenter Database Size Calculator to size the vCenter DB Set the vCenter Statistics collection level to 4 Set the vCenter Statistics collection level to 1 Use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for the vCenter database After analyzing the capacity planning data provided by a customer, you notice that they have a highly variable server workload, with VM activity at less than 50% of average during off-peak hours. Which vSphere distributed service could be used to minimize power and cooling costs for this customer during off-peak times? Choose one. A:1 DPM HA FT Storage Profiles Your customer has a mission-critical application cluster and has clearly specified that they cannot tolerate any downtime for their vCenter Server. Which vCenter feature will allow them to install vCenter so that it automatically and immediately fails over to another instance with no loss of data or downtime? Choose one. A:4 vCenter Fault Tolerance vCenter High Availability vCenter Linked Mode vCenter Heartbeat