2V0-620 · Question #162
A small company wants to use VMware products for its production systems. The system administrator needs to recommend a solution that will deliver High Availability to the company's production…
The correct answer is B. vSphere Essentials Plus. vSphere High Availability requires at least the vSphere Essentials Plus edition, making it the minimum offering that satisfies a production HA requirement.
Question
A small company wants to use VMware products for its production systems. The system administrator needs to recommend a solution that will deliver High Availability to the company's production applications. What is minimum vSphere offering that will support this requirement?
Options
- AvSphere Essentials
- BvSphere Essentials Plus
- CvSphere Hypervisor
- DvSphere Standard
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- B88% (50)
- C7% (4)
- D4% (2)
Why each option
vSphere High Availability requires at least the vSphere Essentials Plus edition, making it the minimum offering that satisfies a production HA requirement.
vSphere Essentials does not include vSphere HA; it provides only basic vCenter management and vMotion for up to three hosts.
vSphere Essentials Plus is the lowest-tier vSphere edition that includes vSphere High Availability, which monitors VMs and host health and automatically restarts workloads on surviving hosts after a failure, directly addressing the production HA requirement at minimum cost.
vSphere Hypervisor is a free, standalone single-host product with no clustering or HA functionality whatsoever.
vSphere Standard does include HA, but it is a higher-tier and more expensive edition than Essentials Plus and therefore not the minimum.
Concept tested: Minimum vSphere edition required for High Availability
Source: https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vsphere/compare
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