2V0-21.23: Professional VMware vSphere 8.x
After updating a predefined alarm on VMware vCenter, an administrator enables email notifications as shown in the attached alarm; however, notifications are NOT being sent.
Where must the mail server settings be configured by the administrator to resolve this issue?
In the ESXi host system config
In the alarm rule definition
In the vCenter settings in the vSphere Client
In the vCenter Management Interface
Answer is In the vCenter settings in the vSphere Client
It allows the administrator to configure the mail server settings in the vCenter settings in the vSphere Client, which are required for sending email notifications for alarms. Option A is incorrect because it configures the mail server settings on an ESXi host system, which are not used for sending email notifications for alarms. Option B is incorrect because it configures the alarm rule definitions, which are already enabled in the exhibit. Option D is incorrect because it configures the vCenter Management Interface, which is not used for sending email notifications for alarms.
Reference:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-vcenter-configuration/GUID-467DA288-7844-48F5-BB44-99DE6F6160A4.html
An administrator is tasked with looking into the disaster recovery options for protecting a database server using VMware vSphere Replication.
The following requirements must be met:
The virtual machine must remain online during the protection.
The virtual machine's snapshots must be used as part of the replication process.
Which step must the administrator complete to accomplish this task?
Configure the virtual machine storage policy.
Enable guest OS VSS quiescing for this virtual machine.
Perform a full initial synchronization of the source virtual machine to the target location.
Configure network traffic isolation for vSphere Replication.
Answer is Enable guest OS VSS quiescing for this virtual machine.
Guest OS VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) quiescing is essential for ensuring application-consistent backups of the virtual machine, especially when dealing with databases and other applications that rely on consistent disk states. When VSS quiescing is enabled, vSphere Replication coordinates with the guest operating system to create application-consistent snapshots, which are then used as part of the replication process.
Enabling VSS quiescing helps ensure that the virtual machine remains online during the replication process and that the snapshots used for replication are consistent, minimizing the risk of data corruption and ensuring a more reliable disaster recovery solution.
Options A, C, and D are not directly related to the specific requirements mentioned and do not address the need to maintain the virtual machine online during replication or utilize snapshots for the process.
Option A (Configure the virtual machine storage policy) is related to storage policies, which may not be directly tied to the requirements for guest OS VSS quiescing and replication.
Option C (Perform a full initial synchronization of the source virtual machine to the target location) is a standard part of setting up vSphere Replication, but it does not specifically address the requirement for keeping the virtual machine online or using snapshots as part of the replication process.
Option D (Configure network traffic isolation for vSphere Replication) refers to network configuration for vSphere Replication, but it is not directly related to meeting the stated requirements.
Reference:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2041909
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1015180
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?
Upgrade the virtual hardware
Migrate the VM to another host
Install VMware Tools
Restart vCenter
Answer is Install VMware Tools
Installing VMware Tools will enable the graceful restart option for the virtual machine, as well as other features such as time synchronization and guest OS customization.
It's not necessary to log into the OS in order to install VMware Tools.
In vSphere Client – Hosts and Clusters view > right-click the Virtual Machine > Guest OS > Install VMware Tools.
Reference:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004754
An administrator is investigating reports of users experiencing difficulties logging into a VMware vCenter instance using LDAP accounts. Which service should the administrator check as part of troubleshooting?
vSphere Authentication Proxy Service
Lookup Service
Identity Management Service
VMware Authentication Framework Daemon
Answer is Identity Management Service
The Identity Management Service is responsible for handling user authentication, including LDAP account authentication. It's a key component for user identity management in vCenter, and issues with LDAP account authentication are often related to problems with this service.
Reference:
https://www.vmware.com/sg/topics/glossary/content/identity-management.html#:~:text=Identity%20management%20(IdM)
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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.)
Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vCenter Management Interface.
Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vSphere Host Client.
Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vSphere Client.
Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vSphere Client.
Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vCenter Management Interface.
Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vSphere Host Client.
Answers are;
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.
A. Incorrect: The vCenter Management Interface does not have an option to generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts.
B. Correct: The vSphere Host Client allows administrators to generate separate log bundles for each ESXi host individually, making it easier to troubleshoot specific issues on individual hosts.
C. Correct: The vSphere Client allows administrators to generate a combined log bundle that includes logs from all ESXi hosts in the environment. This option is useful when VMware Support needs to analyze the logs from multiple hosts together.
D. Correct: The vSphere Client also allows administrators to generate separate log bundles for each ESXi host. This option is useful when VMware Support requires logs from specific hosts.
E. Incorrect: As mentioned earlier, the vCenter Management Interface does not have an option to generate log bundles for all ESXi hosts.
F. Incorrect: Similarly, the vSphere Host Client does not have an option to generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts.
Reference:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/653
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.)
Paravirtual RDMA adapter
RDMA network adapter
Software iSCSi adapter
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter
Software NVMe over RDMA storage adapter
Answers are;
B. RDMA network adapter
E. Software NVMe over RDMA storage adapter
ESXi 7 and later supports RoCE v2 technology, which enables RDMA over an Ethernet network. Hosts use an RDMA network adapter installed on the host and a software NVMe over RDMA storage adapter.
Reference:
B: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-storage/GUID-B7446AA8-83EE-44A0-95EA-EF95EC800D40.html
E: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-storage/GUID-F4B42510-9E6D-4446-816A-5012866E0038.html
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?
VMware Certificate Authority
VMware Site Recovery Manager
vCenter Single Sign-On
Enhanced Linked Mode
Answer is Enhanced Linked Mode
vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode allows you to log in to any single instance of vCenter Server and view and manage the inventories of all the vCenter Server systems in the group.
Reference:
https://geekflare.com/about-vmware-vcenter-enhanced-linked-mode/
An administrator wants to create virtual machine (VM) templates and store them in a content library. The administrator would like to use the content library to manage different versions of these templates so that reverting to an earlier version is an option.
How should the administrator create these templates?
Select a VM in the vCenter inventory. Clone the VM to the content library as a VM template type.
Select a VM template in the vCenter inventory. Clone the template to the content library.
Export a VM in the vCenter inventory to an OVF template. Import the OVF template into the content library.
Convert a VM to a template in the vCenter inventory. Clone the template to the content library.
Answer is A. Select a VM in the vCenter inventory.
Clone the VM to the content library as a VM template type.
Versioning information is only available for templates in a Published or Local Content Library. To add a template to an existing content library, select a VM and select "Clone as Template to Library"
Reference:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-vm-administration/GUID-E9EAF7AC-1C08-441A-AB80-0BAA1EAF9F0A.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6luKuOGzk
An administrator is tasked with configuring certificates for a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) based on the following requirements:
All certificates should use certificates trusted by the Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA).
The solution should minimize the ongoing management overhead of replacing certificates.
Which three actions should the administrator take to ensure that the solution meets corporate policy? (Choose three.)
Replace the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) certificate with a self-signed certificate generated from the VMCA.
Replace the machine SSL certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA.
Replace the machine SSL certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).
Replace the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) certificate with a custom certificate generated from the Enterprise CA.
Replace the solution user certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA.
Replace the solution user certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).
Answers are;
C. Replace the machine SSL certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).
D. Replace the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) certificate with a custom certificate generated from the Enterprise CA.
F. Replace the solution user certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).
The solution should minimize the ongoing management overhead of replacing certificates. Replace VMCA cert with EA cert and let VMCA manage other certificates.
Reference:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-authentication/GUID-4469A6D3-048A-471C-9CB4-518A15EA2AC0.html#making-vmca-an-intermediate-certificate-authority-1
An administrator is tasked with moving an application and guest operating system (OS) running on top of a physical server to a software-defined data center (SDDC) in a remote secure location.
The following constraints apply:
The remote secure location has no network connectivity to the outside world.
The business owner is not concerned if all changes in the application make it to the SDDC in the secure location.
The application’s data is hosted in a database with a high number of transactions.
What could the administrator do to create an image of the guest OS and application that can be moved to this remote data center?
Create a hot clone of the physical server using VMware vCenter Converter.
Create a cold clone of the physical server using VMware vCenter Converter.
Restore the guest OS from a backup.
Use storage replication to replicate the guest OS and application.
Answer is Create a hot clone of the physical server using VMware vCenter Converter.
During conversion, processes continue to run on the source machine, so the resulting virtual machine is not an exact copy of the source machine. When converting Windows sources, you can set Converter Standalone to synchronize the destination virtual machine with the source machine after hot cloning. Synchronization is performed by transferring from the source to the destination the blocks that were changed during the initial cloning period. To avoid loss of data on the destination virtual machine, Converter Standalone can shut down certain Windows services before the synchronization. Based on your settings, Converter Standalone shuts down the selected Windows services so that no critical changes occur on the source machine while destination is being synchronized.
With Standalone Converter 6.4 exists no Cold Cloning anymore.
Reference:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCenter-Converter-Standalone/6.4/vcenter-converter/GUID-105598AA-F443-4339-AC6D-E7664C1A9B4F.html