1Y0-A26 · Question #135
What can the administrator create to configure a high availability plan for a group of mission critical virtual machines in a single pool?
The correct answer is B. vApp. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
What can the administrator create to configure a high availability plan for a group of mission critical virtual machines in a single pool?
Options
- ASite
- BvApp
- CFolder
- DSecondary Site
How the community answered
(28 responses)- A4% (1)
- B82% (23)
- C11% (3)
- D4% (1)
Community Discussion
4
Wesley A.Nov 8, 2025Missed this one my first attempt because I confused vApp with Site and thought "high availability plan" meant some kind of geographic failover setup. On the second try I remembered that a vApp is what lets you group VMs together and define startup order and resource settings as a single unit, which is exactly what you need to manage mission critical machines in a pool.
Giovanna H.Nov 9, 2025The startup order piece is the detail that trips up most candidates on the retake, so worth reinforcing that the exam often isolates that behavior specifically, separate from the resource allocation side of the vApp definition.
Imani T.Nov 3, 2025Folder is the move here because when you organize VMs into a folder within a single pool, you are creating a logical grouping that the HA configuration can be applied to collectively, which is exactly what they are asking about when they say a "group of mission critical virtual machines." The other options like vApp or Site involve broader scope or multi-pool scenarios that go beyond what the question is describing, and Folder keeps everything clean and contained within that one pool structure.
Giovanna H.Nov 4, 2025Imani, the folder in XenCenter is purely a display-level organizer with no HA properties attached, so grouping VMs there does nothing for collective HA configuration. A vApp is the pool-level construct that actually lets you assign HA restart priorities and startup order to a set of mission-critical VMs as one unit, which is exactly what the question is testing.