VMware vSphere 8.x Professional — Question 56

What is the role of vSphere Distributed Services Engine?

Answer options

• A. Provide a live shadow instance of a virtual machine (VM) that mirrors the primary VM to prevent data loss and downtime during outages
• B. Implement Quality of Service (QoS) on network traffic within a vSphere Distributed Switch
• C. Provide hardware accelerated data processing to boost infrastructure performance
• D. Redistribute virtual machines across vSphere cluster hosts to comply with user-defined affinity and anti-affinity rules following host failures or during maintenance operations

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C, as the vSphere Distributed Services Engine is designed to provide hardware-accelerated data processing, which significantly improves infrastructure performance. Option A describes a live shadow instance, which is not the role of the Distributed Services Engine. Option B refers to implementing QoS, and Option D discusses the redistribution of VMs, neither of which are functions of the Distributed Services Engine.