Practice Free 2V0-21.23 Exam Online Questions
An administrator is preparing to perform an update to vSphere clusters that are running vSAN.
The administrator wants to ensure that the following requirements are met as part of the update:
• All hosts in the cluster are updated with the same software.
• The firmware versions on the hosts are updated.
• The new software versions are checked for compliance against the vSAN Hardware Compatibility List.
Which three steps should the administrator take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
- A . Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager with an image for the cluster.
- B . Register the vendor hardware management system as a vCenter Server extension.
- C . Download the firmware updates from the VMware website.
- D . Download the firmware updates from the vendor website.
- E . Run a hardware compatibility check using vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
- F . Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager with a baseline for the cluster.
An administrator is looking to deploy a new VMware vCenter instance. The current environment consists of 75 hosts and is expected to grow up to 100 hosts over the next three years.
Which deployment size should the administrator select?
- A . Medium
- B . Tiny
- C . Large
- D . Small
An administrator is tasked with looking into the disaster recovery options for protecting a database server using VMware vSphere Replication.
The following requirements must be met:
The virtual machine must remain online during the protection.
The virtual machine’s snapshots must be used as part of the replication process.
Which step must the administrator complete to accomplish this task?
- A . Configure the virtual machine storage policy.
- B . Enable guest OS VSS quiescing for this virtual machine.
- C . Perform a full initial synchronization of the source virtual machine to the target location.
- D . Configure network traffic isolation for vSphere Replication.
After a number of outages within a production VMware software-defined data center, an administrator is tasked with identifying a solution to meet the following requirements:
Reduce the risk of outages by proactively identifying issues with the environment and resolving them.
Reduce the complexity of uploading log bundles when raising support tickets.
Which solution should the administrator recommend to meet these requirements?
- A . VMware Aria Operations for Logs
- B . VMware Skyline Advisor Pro
- C . VMware Skyline Health
- D . VMware Aria Operations
An administrator needs to update a VMware vCenter instance to a newer minor release version. Due to restrictions within the environment, the vCenter instance does not have access to the Internet. As a first step, the administrator downloads the required update on another machine.
What are the next steps the administrator must perform to complete the update?
- A . Place the update ISO file in a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore.
Use the vSphere Client to select the update ISO file as the source for the update. - B . Mount the ISO update file to the CD-ROM drive of the vCenter instance.
Use the vCenter Management Interface to select the CD-ROM as the source for the update. - C . Place the ISO update file in a folder accessible to the vCenter instance over HTTPS.
Use the vCenter Management Interface to select the update file as the source for the update. - D . Place the ZIP update file in a folder accessible to the vCenter instance over HTTPS.
Use the vSphere Client to select the update file as the source for the update.
Refer to the exhibit.
After updating a predefined alarm on VMware vCenter, an administrator enables email notifications as shown in the attached alarm; however, notifications are NOT being sent.
Where must the mail server settings be configured by the administrator to resolve this issue?
- A . In the ESXi host system config
- B . In the alarm rule definition
- C . In the vCenter settings in the vSphere Client
- D . In the vCenter Management Interface
An administrator has a requirement to revert a running virtual machine to a previous snapshot af-ter a failed attempt to upgrade an application.
When the administrator originally took the snap-shot, the following choices in the Take Snapshot dialog were made:
• Snapshot the virtual machine’s memory = false
• Quiesce guest file system = false
What will be the result of the administrator selecting the “Revert to Latest Snapshot” option to return the virtual machine to a previous snapshot? (Choose two.)
- A . The virtual machine will be restored to the parent snapshot
- B . The virtual machine will be restored in a powered off state.
- C . The virtual machine will be restored to the child snapshot
- D . The virtual machine will be restored in a powered on state.
- E . The virtual machine will be restored in a suspended state.
An administrator plans to bring VMware vCenter offline in order to perform hardware maintenance on the host where the vCenter Server Appliance is running.
Which vSphere feature must be configured to ensure that vCenter users experience minimal downtime?
- A . vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- B . Hybrid Linked Mode
- C . vCenter Server High Availability
- D . Enhanced Linked Mode
An administrator must gracefully restart a virtual machine (VM) through the vSphere Client but the option is greyed out. The administrator has full administrative access on VMware vCenter and all the objects available in vCenter, but has no access to log onto the operating system.
Which action should the administrator take to meet the objective?
- A . Upgrade the virtual hardware
- B . Migrate the VM to another host
- C . Install VMware Tools
- D . Restart vCenter
An administrator creates a virtual machine that contains the latest company-approved software, tools and security updates. Company policy requires that only full clones are allowed for server workloads.
A combination of which two tasks should the administrator complete to prepare for the deployment of this virtual machine for multiple users? (Choose two.)
- A . Set appropriate permissions on the virtual machine.
- B . Create a virtual machine customization specification.
- C . Upgrade the virtual hardware.
- D . Convert the virtual machine to a template.
- E . Take a snapshot of the virtual machine.