Exam 3V0-21.23 topic 1 question 57 discussion

Actual exam question from VMware's 3V0-21.23

Question #: 57
Topic #: 1

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.)

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.
B. The solution will use VMware SDDC Manager to perform lifecycle management of the solution.
C. The solution will ensure each vSphere cluster supports a minimum of N + 1 redundancy.
D. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to update and upgrade vSphere ESXi hosts in the secondary site.
E. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager baselines to perform patching and upgrading of vSphere ESXi hosts in the secondary site.
F. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to update and upgrade vSphere ESXi hosts in the primary site.
G. The solution will ensure each vSphere cluster is configured with Distributed Power Management (DPM).

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Suggested Answer: BCDF 🗳️

by wildcatwonder2025 at March 28, 2025, 5:39 p.m.

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Ryzz

1 week, 5 days ago

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

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felipeaol

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: ACDF

VCF is not mentioned in the question, then SDDC Manager is not correct A, C, D and F

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BoardHead101

2 months, 1 week ago

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

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