VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design (VCAP-DCV Design) — Question 25

An architect is responsible for extending the hosting design for a customer. The customer has a mission-critical 3-node application which is load balanced in an active/active/passive configuration. The application administrator requests that the virtual infrastructure team be responsible for maintaining platform level availability. An organizational policy exists to mandate the highest possible availability for mission-critical applications.
Based on the resource requirements, the architect has made the following design decision:
The target vSphere cluster contains three VMware ESXi host servers
A combination of which additional four physical design decisions should the architect make to maximize availability of the application? (Choose four.)

Answer options

• A. The solution will create a VM-Host Affinity rule that specifies that workloads must run on hosts in a group.
• B. The solution will enable vSphere High Availability (HA) with restart priority set to "Highest" for the application virtual machines.
• C. The solution will create a VM-VM Affinity rule to keep virtual machines separate.
• D. The solution will create a host DRS group containing all hosts within the cluster.
• E. The solution will enable vSphere Fault Tolerance with vSphere High Availability (HA) virtual machine component failure enabled.
• F. The solution will create a virtual machine DRS group that contains all of the critical application workloads.
• G. The solution will create a VM-VM Affinity rule to keep virtual machines together.

Correct answer: B, C, D, F

Explanation

The correct choices (B, C, D, F) focus on ensuring high availability by prioritizing VM restart, keeping critical VMs separate, creating a DRS group for better resource management, and grouping critical workloads. Options A and G do not contribute to maximizing availability as they either restrict workload placement or group VMs together, which could lead to resource contention.