VMware vSAN Administrator (2025) — Question 42

An architect is responsible for designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Private Cloud. During a requirements gathering workshop with key customer stakeholders, the following information was captured:
The service catalog solution must meet a minimum availability SLA of 99.9%.
The performance of the service catalog solution must not be impacted by maintenance activities or a single physical ESX host failure.
During the logical design phase of the project, the following design decisions were made:
The solution will deploy VCF Automation using the highly available deployment model.
Which two corresponding physical design decisions should the architect make to meet the stated requirements? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. The solution will deploy three VCF Automation appliances using the small size.
• B. The solution will configure the external load balancer to send all traffic to the native Kubernetes load balancer.
• C. The solution will create a VM-host affinity rule to ensure all nodes of the VCF Automation cluster are located on the same ESX host.
• D. The solution will deploy an external load balancer to replace the native load balancer.
• E. The solution will create a VM-host anti-affinity rule to ensure all nodes of the VCF Automation cluster are located on different ESX hosts.

Correct answer: B, E

Explanation

The correct answers are B and E. Option B ensures that traffic management does not affect availability, while option E promotes high availability by placing VCF Automation nodes on separate ESX hosts, thus mitigating the risk of a single point of failure. Options A, C, and D do not meet the stated requirements for availability and resilience against host failures.