VMware Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR Specialist — Question 4

A customer wishes to host a new range of applications with high-performance needs, specifically, low latency.
The applications are required to be hosted at company-owned edge locations, each with minimal rack space (three host slots per edge location for this project).
Which deployment options would satisfy the customer's needs, while maximizing the amount of capacity available per deployment?

Answer options

• A. A new three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with OSA in each edge location Each application VM configured with a RAID-5 VM storage policy
• B. A new three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with OSA in each edge location Each application VM configured with a RAID-1 VM storage policy
• C. A new three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with ESA in each edge location Each application VM configured with a RAID-1 VM storage policy
• D. A new three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with ESA in each edge location Each application VM configured with a RAID-5 VM storage policy

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Option D is correct because using a three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with ESA allows for better resource utilization and performance. RAID-5 provides a good balance of performance and storage efficiency, which is crucial for high-performance applications. The other options either use OSA, which may not optimize capacity as effectively, or employ RAID-1, which offers lower storage efficiency compared to RAID-5.