A user has submitted a trouble ticket complaining that the email server VM has become very sluggish. After looking at the logs, the vSphere administrator suspects the iSCSI network is experiencing congestion. What esxtop statistic should the administrator examine in order to validate that the guest OS is experiencing performance degradation?

A user has submitted a trouble ticket complaining that the email server VM has become very sluggish. After looking at the logs, the vSphere administrator...

A vSphere administrator installs an ESXi host and creates a virtual machine, then installs vCenter Server. Upon connecting to the environment, the administrator notices that several inventory views appear to be missing from the Navigation Bar as shown in the Exhibit. Which condition would result in this behavior?

A vSphere administrator installs an ESXi host and creates a virtual machine, then installs vCenter Server. Upon connecting to the environment, the administrator...

An administrator needs to know the estimated time remaining on a virtual machine that is hosting a critical accounting application given current assigned resources such as memory, CPU, and disk. When an administrator selects the virtual machine in the vCenter Operations Manager console, which major badge should the administrator investigate to determine this information?

An administrator needs to know the estimated time remaining on a virtual machine that is hosting a critical accounting application given current assigned...

An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager notices an increase in resource consumption by virtual machines over a period of time. The administrator needs to understand how adding more hosts or increasing resources in existing hosts will address the growing resource requirements of the virtual machines. Which vCenter Operations Manager feature can provide this information?

An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager notices an increase in resource consumption by virtual machines over a period of time. The administrator...

An administrator needs to configure an alarm that notifies administrators if an application is impacted by overcommitment of memory resources. The environment consists of 100 virtual machines running on 5 ESXi hosts that are configured in a fully automated HA/DRS cluster. The cluster is configured with a parent resource pool and Production and Development child pools. Where should the administrator set the alarm to meet the requirement?

An administrator needs to configure an alarm that notifies administrators if an application is impacted by overcommitment of memory resources. The environment...

An administrator needs to deploy several virtual machines. Storage contention between the virtual machines should be managed by the VMkernel. Some of the virtual machines will use MSCS and should be highly available across the ESXi 5.5 hosts. Which two storage options meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

An administrator needs to deploy several virtual machines. Storage contention between the virtual machines should be managed by the VMkernel. Some of...

A Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with the following configuration receives an Out of Space condition indicator: * The virtual machine uses thin provisioned virtual disks. * The VMFS5 datastore on which the virtual machine's files reside is on a thin provisioned LUN. * 30% of the VMFS datastore content is no longer needed. * The storage array supports VASA and VAAI. Which action should the vSphere administrator take to resolve the Out of Space problem without requesting additional space on the storage array?

A Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with the following configuration receives an Out of Space condition indicator:* The virtual machine uses thin...

An administrator has configured hardware acceleration for a Fibre Channel storage array. After a recent maintenance event, the administrator finds that cloning and migration operations are taking excessively long to complete. Which two settings could cause hardware acceleration to become disabled? (Choose two.)

An administrator has configured hardware acceleration for a Fibre Channel storage array. After a recent maintenance event, the administrator finds that...

An administrator is upgrading a vSphere Distributed Switch. The existing switch is version 5.0 and the administrator wants to upgrade to the latest version possible. The environment contains several ESXi 5.1 hosts. Which two options are available to ensure that the upgraded switch will be compatible with these hosts? (Choose two.)

An administrator is upgrading a vSphere Distributed Switch. The existing switch is version 5.0 and the administrator wants to upgrade to the latest...

A vSphere administrator assigns VLAN 3389 to the Production port group on the VCP_DCV_Example vSphere Distributed Switch. After the change, users report a loss of connectivity to their applications. Further analysis provides the following data: * The cluster has not had a ESXi host failure. * Application functioned normally prior to the change. * The loss of connectivity occurred immediately following the change. Which condition would cause this loss of connectivity?

A vSphere administrator assigns VLAN 3389 to the Production port group on the VCP_DCV_Example vSphere Distributed Switch. After the change, users report...

An administrator creates an ESXi cluster using vSphere Auto Deploy. The ESXi hosts are configured to get a management IP address from a DHCP server. The administrator needs to troubleshoot the management network on one of the hosts. Which DCUI option should the administrator use to renew the DHCP lease?

An administrator creates an ESXi cluster using vSphere Auto Deploy. The ESXi hosts are configured to get a management IP address from a DHCP server....

An administrator is installing ESXi 5.x to a local SAS drive. The installation stops on a purple screen and shows the error: The system has found a problem on your machine and cannot continue. Could not populate the filesystem: Admission check failed Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

An administrator is installing ESXi 5.x to a local SAS drive. The installation stops on a purple screen and shows the error:The system has found a problem...

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager for the initial deployment of VMware Tools on a group of newly created virtual machines. When the administrator scans the objects for compliance, a compliance state of Incompatible is returned. How should the administrator resolve the issue?

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager for the initial deployment of VMware Tools on a group of newly created virtual machines.When the...