VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 - Data Center Design (VCAP5-DCD) Set 6

Which of the following is a list of attributes that can be used as a checklist for ensuring good design thoughts?

The infrastructure qualities are attributes you can use to ensure that major aspects are considered to help with good design processes. What are the infrastructure qualities?

You are the VMware consultant at a large enterprise. A senior manager is in charge of a project that needs new infrastructure for its application. The application will be used by 3,200 users. Three virtual machines are requested via the help desk. One of the three is a virtual machine with 32 vCPUs allocated for processing. The notes of the request say that the large number of vCPUs (the company template is 2 vCPUs) is justified by the senior manager. The notes also reference the following details from the application manual:
- For every 100 users in the workload, the processing tier of the application requires one agent handler service.
- Each agent handler requires one single-core CPU.
Which of the following should the VMware consultant do next?

According to HA best practices, which of the following admission control policies is most appropriate for a cluster of hosts with virtual machines of very different memory and CPU reservations?

A requirement in a server consolidation project states: "The consolidation ratio must be as high as possible." This has resulted in a lower number of larger-capacity hosts in the vSphere HA cluster. Which of the following is true?

A host has three dual-port network cards. What is the maximum number of vSwitches that can be integrated with the physical network, assuming that network redundancy is not a requirement?

As a platform designer, you have been asked to create a design for a vSphere 5 platform. Based on existing capacity state analysis, the platform will require 30 hosts and 250 guest VMs. Due to an existing vendor relationship with the enterprise, the preferred database for all datacenter systems is Microsoft SQL 2008. Which of the following vCenter deployments can be used based on this constraint?

You are a platform designer constructing a physical design from an existing approved logical design. Out of the vendor proposals, there are two proposed solutions that could be used. Which of the following options is the most important factor when making a decision?

You are a virtualization consultant at a company that develops its own in-house website trading systems. The new website will be deployed in a vSphere 5 platform, which consists of two clusters and four ESXi hosts (one for each project--the SDLC hosts--for all levels of testing and development prior to production deployment). The production cluster has been configured for fully automated DRS and VMware HA. During the SDLC, the website platform was developed on a single development ESXi host inside a single VLAN. The system was successfully tested within the SDLC ESXi hosts and then deployed to the production cluster in a single vApp and a single VLAN. Following a successful midweek, the new application starts to show signs of latency. Suddenly several applications across the cluster are being impacted by network latency issues. Metrics are collected and show that the amount of network traffic between the database and application servers of the new website platform are at 96% utilization on the physical switch links between ESXi hosts in the production cluster. What should you do?

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