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A technician is helping to purchase a new system to be used to roll out virtualized workstations. Which of the following components should be chosen to BEST meet the customer's needs? (Select TWO).
The correct answer is B. Maximum memory C. Maximum-core processor. A virtualization host running multiple virtual workstations requires maximum RAM to allocate memory across VMs and maximum CPU cores to handle concurrent VM processing loads.
Question
A technician is helping to purchase a new system to be used to roll out virtualized workstations. Which of the following components should be chosen to BEST meet the customer's needs? (Select TWO).
Options
- ASpecialized video card
- BMaximum memory
- CMaximum-core processor
- DDual monitors
- ESurround sound audio
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A5% (1)
- B73% (16)
- D18% (4)
- E5% (1)
Why each option
A virtualization host running multiple virtual workstations requires maximum RAM to allocate memory across VMs and maximum CPU cores to handle concurrent VM processing loads.
A specialized GPU is only relevant for GPU-accelerated VDI or graphics-intensive workloads; standard virtualized workstations do not require a high-end video card on the host.
Each virtual machine is allocated a portion of the host's physical RAM, so maximum memory directly determines how many VMs can run simultaneously and how much memory each VM can be given - making it the single most critical resource for a virtualization host.
Hypervisors schedule VM processes across physical CPU cores, so a maximum-core processor allows more VMs to run concurrently with better performance isolation, reducing CPU contention between virtual workstations.
Dual monitors are a display preference for the end user or administrator and have no bearing on the host's ability to run or scale virtual machines.
Surround sound audio hardware is irrelevant to virtualization performance and provides no benefit to a system whose primary role is hosting virtual workstations.
Concept tested: Hardware requirements for virtualization host systems
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/plan/plan-hyper-v-scalability-in-windows-server
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