VCP VMware Certified Professional 3

Question 1

Which vSphere distributed switch (VDS) feature mirrors traffic from one port to another for monitoring purposes?

Accepted Answer

Port Mirroring

Answer

Port Mirroring on a VDS copies traffic from a source port or uplink to a destination port, enabling network monitoring tools to analyze the traffic.

Question 2

What is the maximum number of vCPUs supported by a single VM in vSphere 8?

Accepted Answer

512

Answer

vSphere 8 supports up to 512 vCPUs per virtual machine, enabling very large workloads to be virtualized.

Question 3

Which ESXi storage stack component handles multipathing and path failover for block storage?

Accepted Answer

PSA (Pluggable Storage Architecture)

Answer

The Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) manages multipathing through path selection plug-ins (PSPs) and multipathing plug-ins (MPPs).

Question 4

A company wants to run containers directly on vSphere without a separate container host OS. Which VMware solution enables this?

Accepted Answer

vSphere Pods (via vSphere with Tanzu)

Answer

vSphere with Tanzu enables vSphere Pods, which run containers directly on ESXi hosts in isolated CRX (Container Runtime for ESXi) environments.

Question 5

When configuring vSphere Storage DRS, which metric can trigger automated datastore recommendations?

Accepted Answer

Datastore space utilization and I/O latency

Answer

Storage DRS monitors datastore space utilization and I/O latency, triggering migration recommendations when thresholds are exceeded.

VCP - VMware Certified Professional Practice Test