An administrator is tasked with importing a vSphere Lifecycle Manager image and applying it to a cluster containing six hosts, with two of the hosts in maintenance mode. The administrator uses the…

Question

Options

• AThe image is remediated on the four hosts not in maintenance mode, in parallel. The hosts in
• BThe image is remediated on the hosts in maintenance mode in parallel, and when completed the
• CThe image is remediated on the four hosts not in maintenance mode, in sequence. The hosts in
• DThe image is remediated on the hosts in maintenance mode in parallel. The hosts not in

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  9% (2)
• D
  83% (19)

Explanation

Option D is correct because vSphere Lifecycle Manager prioritizes hosts already in maintenance mode - they require no VM migration and are immediately ready for patching, so with Parallel Remediation enabled, those two hosts are remediated simultaneously first. Once the maintenance mode hosts complete, vLCM then moves on to the remaining four hosts (entering each into maintenance mode and remediating them per the configured parallel remediation settings). Options A and C are wrong because they incorrectly place the non-maintenance-mode hosts first in the remediation order - vLCM always processes already-isolated hosts before touching live hosts. Option B gets the starting group right (maintenance mode hosts first) but incorrectly describes what happens afterward. Memory tip: Think "idle hands first" - hosts sitting idle in maintenance mode get patched immediately in parallel, then vLCM works through the active hosts.

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