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Free VMware 2V0-21.23 Practice Questions & Answers 2026 Part1 | VMware vSphere 8.x Professional

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Question #1
Which three vSphere features are still supported for Windows-based virtual machines when enabling vSphere's -virtualization-based security feature? (Choose three.)
A. vSphere vMotion
B. PCI passthrough
C. vSphere High Availability (HA)D, vSphere Fault Tolerance
D. vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS)
E. Hot Add of CPU or memory
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Correct Answer: ACE

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Question #2
An administrator creates a virtual machine that contains the latest company-approved software, tools and security updates. Company policy requires that only full clones are allowed for server workloads.A combination of which two tasks should the administrator complete to prepare for the deployment of this virtual machine for multiple users? (Choose two.)
A. Set appropriate permissions on the virtual machine
B. Create a virtual machine customization specification
C. Upgrade the virtual hardware
D. Convert the virtual machine to a template
E. Take a snapshot of the virtual machine
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Correct Answer: BD
Question #3
Which two things should an administrator consider when tasked with deploying new encrypted virtual machines into an existing VMware vSphere environment?(Choose two.)
A. VM encryption is only supported when a datastore is backed by Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs)
B. All virtual machine data (excluding swap files) is encrypted when using VM encryption
C. Once encrypted, the process of unencrypting a virtual machine is destructive
D. VM encryption works uniformly across all supported guest operating systems
E. All virtual machine data (including swap files) is encrypted when using VM encryption
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Correct Answer: DE
Question #4
Which three features are only available when using vSphere Distributed Switches instead of vSphere Standard Switches? (Choose three.)802.1Q taggingPort mirroringNetflowConfiguration backup and restoreIPv6 supportIPv4 support
A. html https://docs
B. Reveal Answer
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Correct Answer: BCD
Question #5
A company has two sites: Site A and Site B. The administrator would like to manage the VMware vCenter inventories in both sites from a single vSphere Client session.Which vCenter feature must be configured?
A. VMware Certificate Authority
B. VMware Site Recovery Manager
C. vCenter Single Sign-On
D. Enhanced Linked Mode
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Correct Answer: D
Question #6
If a distributed switch uses the "Route based on physical NIC load" load balancing algorithm, what does the mean send or receive utilization of an uplink need to exceed for the flow of traffic to move to the second uplink?
A. 75 percent of the capacity over a 30 second period
B. 60 percent of the capacity over a 30 second period
C. 60 percent of the capacity over a 40 second period
D. 75 percent of the capacity over a 40 second period
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Correct Answer: A
Question #7
Refer to the exhibit.Given the configuration shown in the exhibit, what must the administrator do to delete only the latest version of the template?
A. Delete App-LibTemplete(3) from the SA-Templates folder
B. In the SA-template folder, rename App-Libtemplate (2) to App-LibTemplate
C. Check out AppLibTemplate (3) and delete the template from the SA-Templates folder
D. Revert to APP-LibTemplate (2) and delete App-LibTemplate (3)
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Correct Answer: D
Question #8
An administrator is tasked with creating a copy of a virtual machine (VM) running in Microsoft Hyper-V. A developer must be able to run a local copy of this VM on their laptop. The following constraints apply:- The laptop is part of the same domain as VMware vCenter.- The laptop is not connected to the network on which the software-defined data center (SSDC) is placed.- The copy of the VM must be able to run in VMware Workstation.How can the administrator enable the developer to run the VM in VMware Workstation?
A. Export the VM from Microsoft's Hyper-V server, export the VM and import the VM into VMware Workstation
B. Use VMware vCenter Convertor, convert the VM to the right format, export the VM and deploy on VMware Workstation
C. Export a backup of the VM and import the backup into VMware Workstation
D. Create a clone of the VM, export the clone of the VM and import into VMware Workstation
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Correct Answer: B
Question #9
An administrator has mapped three vSphere zones to three vSphere clusters. Which two statements are true for this vSphere with Tanzu zonal Supervisor enablement? (Choose two.) For a vSphere with Tanzu zonal Supervisor enablement where three vSphere zones are mapped to three vSphere clusters, the following two statements are true: B)One Supervisor will be created across all zones. In a three-zone deployment, all three vSphere clusters become one Supervisor. E)Individual vSphere Namespaces will be spread across all zones. You can distribute the nodes of your Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters across all three vSphere zones, thus providing HA for your Kubernetes workloads at a vSphere cluster level.
A. One Supervisor will be created in a specific zone
B. One Supervisor will be created across all zones
C. Three Supervisors will be created in Linked Mode
D. Individual vSphere Namespaces will be placed into a specific zone
E. Individual vSphere Namespaces will be spread across all zones
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Correct Answer: BE
Question #10
An administrator is adding a new ESXi host to an existing vSphere cluster. When selecting the cluster, the administrator Is unable to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow to add and configure the additional host.What could be the root cause of this issue?
A. The administrator has previously dismissed the Cluster Quickstart workflow
B. The administrator must manually add the host to the cluster before using the Cluster Quickstart workflow
C. The administrator has not been assigned the required permissions to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow
D. The administrator must enable the Cluster Quickstart workflow option in VMware vCenter
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Correct Answer: A
Question #11
What are two use cases for VMware vSphere+? (Choose two.)
A. AEnhance on-premises workloads by managing them through the VMware Cloud Console
B. BAllow live migration between on-premises and VMware Cloud
C. CIncrease the performance of the native vCenter vMotion capability
D. DAllow the creation of affinity and anti-affinity rules to be used during failover events
E. ESimplify vCenter lifecycle management through cloud-enabled automation
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Correct Answer: AE
Question #12
An administrator plans to update the Supervisor cluster and has noticed some of the Tanzu Kubemetes Grid clusters are running an incompatible version.Which action must the administrator take before proceeding with the Supervisor cluster update?
A. Update all Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to the latest version prior to the Supervisor cluster update
B. No action is needed - Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters will be updated automatically as part of the update process
C. No action is needed - Incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters can be manually updated after the Supervisor cluster update
D. Update incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters prior to the Supervisor cluster update
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Correct Answer: D
Question #13
Which three vSphere features are still supported for Windows-based virtual machines when enabling vSphere's -virtualization-based security feature? (Choose three.)
A. vSphere vMotion
B. PCI passthrough
C. vSphere High Availability (HA)D, vSphere Fault Tolerance
D. vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS)
E. Hot Add of CPU or memory
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Correct Answer: ACE
Question #14
An administrator is tasked with applying updates to a vSphere cluster running vSAN using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Downtime to the ESXi hosts must be minimal while the work is completed.The administrator has already completed the following steps and no errors have been returned:Downloaded all applicable software and created a new image.Attached the new image to the cluster and run a compliance check against the image for the cluster.Ran a remediation pre-check for the cluster.Which two series of steps should the administrator perform to start the remediation of the cluster using the new image? (Choose two.)
A. 1
B. 1
C. 1
D. 1
E. 1
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Correct Answer: DE
Question #15
An administrator must gracefully restart a virtual machine (VM) through the vSphere Client but the option is greyed out. The administrator has full administrative access on VMware vCenter and all the objects available in vCenter, but has no access to log onto the operating system.Which action should the administrator take to meet the objective?
A. estart vCenter
B. nstall VMware Tools
C. pgrade the virtual hardware
D. igrate the VM to another host
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Correct Answer: B
Question #16
An administrator needs to configure a new vSphere cluster to ensure Engineering workloads receive sufficient capacity when the cluster is experiencing resource contention. The following information has been provided:- The vSphere cluster contains Engineering and Sales workloads.- The Sales workloads are further subdivided into Marketing and Finance workloads.- vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is enabled and set to fully automatic.The following resource allocation logic applies when in contention for resources:- Engineering workloads should always receive 50% of all available CPU and memory resources.- Marketing workloads should each receive 20% of the remaining available CPU and memory resources.- Finance workloads should each receive 80% of the remaining available CPU and memory resources.Which four steps could the administrator take to ensure that all resource allocation requirements are met?(Choose four.)
A. Create sibling resource pools for the Engineering and Sales workloads
B. Assign normal memory and CPU shares to both the Engineering and Sales resource pool
C. Assign high memory and CPU shares to the Engineering resource pool and low memory and CPU shares to the Sales resource pool
D. Create a parent resource pool for the Engineering workloads and child resource pools for Sales, Marketing and Finance workloads
E. Create two child resource pools under the Sales resource pool for the Marketing and Finance workloads
F. Assign 3000 memory and CPU shares to the Marketing resource pool and 1000 memory and CPU shares to the Finance resource pool
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Correct Answer: ABEG
Question #17
An administrator is tasked with configuring certificates for a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) based on the following new corporate security policy:- All solutions must only use certificates signed by the Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA).- No intermediate CAs are allowed in the certificate chain.Which two actions should the administrator take to ensure the solution meets corporate policy?(Choose two.)
A. Replace the solution user certificates with trusted certificates generated from the subordinate VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
B. Replace the solution user certificates with self-signed certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
C. Replace the solution user certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA
D. Replace the machine SSL certificates with self-signed certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
E. Replace the machine SSL certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA
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Correct Answer: CE
Question #18
An administrator is tasked with configuring remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet v2 (RoCE v2).Which two types of adapters must the administrator configure? (Choose two.)
A. Paravirtual RDMA adapter
B. RDMA network adapter
C. Software iSCSi adapter
D. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter
E. Software NVMe over RDMA storage adapter
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Correct Answer: BD
Question #19
An administrator is working with VMware Support and is asked to provide log bundles for the ESXi hosts in an environment.Which three options does the administrator have? (Choose three.)
A. Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vCenter Management Interface
B. Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vSphere Host Client
C. Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vSphere Client
D. Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vSphere Client
E. Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vCenter Management Interface
F. Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vSphere Host Client
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Correct Answer: BCD
Question #20
A vSphere cluster has the following configuration:Virtual machines (VMs) are running Production and Test workloadsvSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is enabledThere are no resource pools in the clusterPerformance monitoring data shows that the Production workload VMs are not receiving their fully allocated memory when the vSphere cluster is fully utilized.A combination of which two steps could the administrator perform to ensure that the Production VMs are always guaranteed the full allocation of memory? (Choose two.)
A. Assign a custom memory share value to the resource pool containing the Production VMs
B. Assign a memory reservation value to the resource pool containing the Production VMs
C. Create a parent resource pool for the Production VMs
D. Create a sibling resource pool for each of the Production and Test VMs
E. Create a child resource pool for the Test VMs
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Correct Answer: BC
Question #21
An administrator plans to update the Supervisor cluster and has noticed some of the Tanzu Kubemetes Grid clusters are running an incompatible version.Which action must the administrator take before proceeding with the Supervisor cluster update?
A. Update all Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to the latest version prior to the Supervisor cluster update
B. No action is needed - Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters will be updated automatically as part of the update process
C. No action is needed - Incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters can be manually updated after the Supervisor cluster update
D. Update incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters prior to the Supervisor cluster update
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Correct Answer: D
Question #22
An administrator is tasked with configuring vSphere Trust Authority. The administrator has completed the following steps:Set up the workstationEnabled the Trust Authority AdministratorEnabled the Trust Authority StateCollected information about the ESXi hosts and vCenter to be trusted Which step does the administrator need to complete next?
A. Import the Trusted Host information to the Trust Authority Cluster
B. Import the Trusted Cluster information to the Trusted Hosts
C. Create the Key Provider on the Trusted Cluster
D. Import the Trusted Host information to the Trusted Cluster
E. Reveal Answer
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Correct Answer: D
Question #23
During the staging of a patch on a vCenter Server Appliance, an error was encountered and the process stopped. An administrator resolved the root cause and is ready to continue with the staging of the patch.From the vCenter Management Interface, which action should the administrator take to continue the process from the point at which the error occurred?
A. Use the Stage and Install option to resume the staging
B. Use the Resume option to resume the staging
C. Use the Unstage option to restart the staging
D. Use the Stage Only option to restart the staging
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Correct Answer: B
Question #24
An administrator is responsible for the management of a VMware vCenter instance that is currently experience performance issues. The administrator quickly identifies that the CPU and memory utilization of vCenter is consistently over 90%. Upon further analysis, it seems that the vpxd process is contributing significantly to the performance issue.A combination of which four steps should the administrator take to resolve the performance issuesand ensure that a similar issue can be rectified without required downtime to vCenter moving forward? (Choose four.)Gracefully shut down vCenter using the vSphere Client.Enable CPU Hot add on the vCenter virtual machine.Power on the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Host Client.Add a additional CPU and memory to the vCenter Server Appliance.Enable CPU an Memory Hot add on the vCenter virtual machine.Add a additional CPU and memory to the vCenter Server Appliance.
A. html
B. Reveal Answer
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Correct Answer: BCDE
Question #25
The vCenter inventory contains a virtual machine (VM) template called Linux-01. The administrator wants to install a software patch into Linux-01 while allowing users to continue to access Linux-01 to deploy VMs. Which series of steps should the administrator take to accomplish this task?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Correct Answer: D
Question #26
An administrator is adding a new ESXi host to an existing vSphere cluster. When selecting the cluster, the administrator Is unable to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow to add and configure the additional host.What could be the root cause of this issue?
A. The administrator has previously dismissed the Cluster Quickstart workflow
B. The administrator must manually add the host to the cluster before using the Cluster Quickstart workflow
C. The administrator has not been assigned the required permissions to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow
D. The administrator must enable the Cluster Quickstart workflow option in VMware vCenter
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Correct Answer: A
Question #27
An administrator needs to create affinity rules for the following vSphere cluster setup:
A. 1
B. 1
C. 1 Add the VMs to a VM group and the esx11 - esx13 hosts to a host group
D. 1
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Correct Answer: C
Question #28
A company has two sites: Site A and Site B. The administrator would like to manage the VMware vCenter inventories in both sites from a single vSphere Client session. Which vCenter feature must be configured? Option D is correct because it indicates that Enhanced Linked Mode must be configured to allow the administrator to manage the VMware vCenter inventories in both sites from a single vSphere Client session. Enhanced Linked Mode allows multiple vCenter Server instances to share information such as tags, licenses, roles, permissions, and policies. Option A is incorrect because VMware Certificate Authority is a service that provides certificates for vSphere components and does not affect inventory management. Option B is incorrect because VMware Site Recovery Manager is a solution that provides disaster recovery and business continuity for vSphere environments and does not affect inventory management. Option C is incorrect because vCenter Single Sign-On is a service that provides authentication and authorization for vSphere components and does not affect inventory management. Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vcenter.install.doc/GUID-9F9E3F8C-0E2B-4B6A-8C5C-3F8E5F6B4E9D.html
A. VMware Certificate Authority
B. VMware Site Recovery Manager
C. vCenter Single Sign-On
D. Enhanced Linked Mode
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Correct Answer: D
Question #29
An administrator must gracefully restart a virtual machine (VM) through the vSphere Client but the option is greyed out. The administrator has full administrative access on VMware vCenter and all the objects available in vCenter, but has no access to log onto the operating system.Which action should the administrator take to meet the objective?
A. Upgrade the virtual hardware
B. Migrate the VM to another host
C. Install VMware Tools
D. Restart vCenter
E. Reveal Answer
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Correct Answer: C
Question #30
An administrator is tasked with applying updates to a vSphere cluster running vSAN using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Downtime to the ESXi hosts must be minimal while the work is completed.The administrator has already completed the following steps and no errors have been returned:Downloaded all applicable software and created a new image.Attached the new image to the cluster and run a compliance check against the image for the cluster.Ran a remediation pre-check for the cluster.Which two series of steps should the administrator perform to start the remediation of the cluster using the new image? (Choose two.)
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
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Correct Answer: DE
Question #31
A company has two sites: Site A and Site B. The administrator would like to manage the VMware vCenter inventories in both sites from a single vSphere Client session.Which vCenter feature must be configured?
A. VMware Certificate Authority
B. VMware Site Recovery Manager
C. vCenter Single Sign-On
D. Enhanced Linked Mode
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Correct Answer: D
Question #32
An administrator is adding a new ESXi host to an existing vSphere cluster. When selecting the cluster, the administrator Is unable to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow to add and configure the additional host.What could be the root cause of this issue?
A. The administrator has previously dismissed the Cluster Quickstart workflow
B. The administrator must manually add the host to the cluster before using the Cluster Quickstart workflow
C. The administrator has not been assigned the required permissions to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow
D. The administrator must enable the Cluster Quickstart workflow option in VMware vCenter
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Correct Answer: A
Question #33
An administrator is tasked with configuring remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet v2 (RoCE v2).Which two types of adapters must the administrator configure? (Choose two.)
A. Paravirtual RDMA adapter
B. RDMA network adapter
C. Software iSCSi adapter
D. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter
E. Software NVMe over RDMA storage adapter
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Correct Answer: BE
Question #34
An administrator plans to update the Supervisor cluster and has noticed some of the Tanzu Kubemetes Grid clusters are running an incompatible version.Which action must the administrator take before proceeding with the Supervisor cluster update?
A. Update all Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to the latest version prior to the Supervisor cluster update
B. No action is needed - Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters will be updated automatically as part of the update process
C. No action is needed - Incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters can be manually updated after the Supervisor cluster update
D. Update incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters prior to the Supervisor cluster update
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Correct Answer: D
Question #35
An administrator plans to update the Supervisor cluster and has noticed some of the Tanzu Kubemetes Grid clusters are running an incompatible version.Which action must the administrator take before proceeding with the Supervisor cluster update?
A. Update all Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to the latest version prior to the Supervisor cluster update
B. No action is needed - Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters will be updated automatically as part of the update process
C. No action is needed - Incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters can be manually updated after the Supervisor cluster update
D. Update incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters prior to the Supervisor cluster update
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Correct Answer: D
Question #36
An administrator plans to update the Supervisor cluster and has noticed some of the Tanzu Kubemetes Grid clusters are running an incompatible version.Which action must the administrator take before proceeding with the Supervisor cluster update?
A. Update all Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to the latest version prior to the Supervisor cluster update
B. No action is needed - Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters will be updated automatically as part of the update process
C. No action is needed - Incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters can be manually updated after the Supervisor cluster update
D. Update incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters prior to the Supervisor cluster update
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Correct Answer: D
Question #37
Which three vSphere features are still supported for Windows-based virtual machines when enabling vSphere's -virtualization-based security feature? (Choose three.)
A. vSphere vMotion
B. PCI passthrough
C. vSphere High Availability (HA)D, vSphere Fault Tolerance
D. vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS)
E. Hot Add of CPU or memory
View answer
Correct Answer: ACE
Question #38
During the staging of a patch on a vCenter Server Appliance, an error was encountered and the process stopped. An administrator resolved the root cause and is ready to continue with the staging of the patch.From the vCenter Management Interface, which action should the administrator take to continue the process from the point at which the error occurred?
A. Use the Stage and Install option to resume the staging
B. Use the Resume option to resume the staging
C. Use the Unstage option to restart the staging
D. Use the Stage Only option to restart the staging
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Correct Answer: B
Question #39
An administrator is tasked with applying updates to a vSphere cluster running vSAN using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Downtime to the ESXI hosts must be minimal while the work Is completed. I he administrator has already completed the following steps and no errors have been returned:- Downloaded all applicable software and created a new Image- Attached the new Image to the cluster and run a compliance check against the Image for the cluster- Ran a remediation pre-check for the clusterWhich two series of steps should the administrator perform to start the remediation of the cluster using the new image? (Choose two.)
A. 1
B. 1
C. 1
D. l Leave all ESXI hosts In the cluster operational2
E. 1 Use the Remediate Option In vSphere Lifecycle Manager to remediate all of the ESXI hosts In the cluster In sequence
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Correct Answer: AD
Question #40
An administrator needs to consolidate a number of physical servers by migrating the workloads to a software-defined data center solution.Which VMware solution should the administrator recommend?
A. Mware Horizon
B. Mware vSAN
C. Mware vSphere
D. Mware NSX
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Correct Answer: C

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