VCA vSphere High Availability & Fault Tolerance 2

Question 1

What is VM Component Protection (VMCP) in vSphere HA?

Accepted Answer

A feature that responds to storage connectivity failures by restarting affected VMs

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Encryption of VM files stored on shared datastores

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A method for protecting VMs from memory errors

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A backup policy that protects VM configuration files

Question 2

What does the 'Host Isolation Response' setting control in vSphere HA?

Accepted Answer

What happens to VMs on a host that cannot communicate with the HA master

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How ESXi responds when it detects unauthorized access attempts

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How the cluster handles hosts with failed network adapters

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The maximum time before HA declares a host as permanently failed

Question 3

What is required for vSphere Fault Tolerance to function?

Accepted Answer

A dedicated FT logging network, vSphere HA enabled, and compatible hardware

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Shared NFS storage and at least two network adapters

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vSphere DRS in fully automated mode and enterprise licensing

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A dedicated vCenter Server instance for FT management

Question 4

What is a vSphere HA 'VM restart priority' setting used for?

Accepted Answer

Determining which VMs get restarted first after an HA failover event

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Controlling the order in which VMs are migrated during DRS balancing

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Setting CPU scheduling priority for VMs during normal operation

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Defining which VMs are backed up first during snapshot operations

Question 5

What minimum number of ESXi hosts are required to form a vSphere HA cluster?

Accepted Answer

2 hosts

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1 host

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3 hosts

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4 hosts

Question 6

What is 'proactive HA' in vSphere?

Accepted Answer

Automatically migrating VMs away from a degraded host before it fails

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Restarting VMs faster after a failure by pre-warming memory on spare hosts

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Predicting future storage failures based on SMART data

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Automatically increasing VM resources before workload peaks