VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design (VCAP-DCV Design) — Question 38

An architect is designing the datastore configuration of a new vSphere-based solution.
The following information was obtained during the initial meeting with the customer:
There is currently 500 production and DMZ virtual machine workloads spread evenly across the primary and secondary site.
The profile of the workloads (per site) is as follows:
DMZ:
75 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 200 GB disk
Production:
50 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB disk
100 x Medium: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 200 GB disk
25 x Large: 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB disk
The average IO Profile per workload is 70/30 read/write.
The solution should cater to 10% storage growth in the first year.
The solution should cater to 15% virtual machine snapshot overhead.
The storage team has confirmed:
A scalable external storage array has been deployed per site to support the storage requirements.
The storage array will connect to all hosts using a dedicated Fibre Channel storage area network fabric.
Usable storage capacity is available in 10 TB LUNs.
As many LUNs as required can be provided.
Every effort should be made to ensure the number of required LUNs is minimized.
The security team has stated that all DMZ and production workloads must remain logically isolated from each other.
Given the information provided, which three design decisions should the architect make to meet the requirements? (Choose three.)

Answer options

Correct answer: A, C, D

Explanation

Option A is correct because configuring six 10TB VMFS datastores for production workloads meets the capacity needs while minimizing LUNs. Option C is also correct as each 10TB LUN should be set up as a VMFS datastore to utilize the storage effectively. Option D is correct because two 10TB VMFS datastores for DMZ workloads ensure logical isolation from production workloads. The other options either do not meet the isolation requirement or do not adequately accommodate the storage capacity needed.