A vSphere administrator observes a CPU spike on one of the web servers (view the Exhibit.) Which two statements can describe the cause of this activity? (Choose two.)

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C. Disk latency is present on the datastore. Disk latency on the datastore forces the VM's vCPUs to spend additional cycles in I/O wait states and storage-stack processing, elevating CPU utilization as threads block on slow storage completions. D. The network packet size is too small. Undersized network packets increase the total packet count per unit of data, raising CPU interrupt and processing overhead on the virtual NIC and the guest network stack, which can manifest as a CPU spike on a busy web server.

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A. The network packet size is too large. Larger packets reduce the number of packets processed per data volume, which lowers rather than raises CPU overhead for network operations.

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B. VMware Tools is not installed. Absent VMware Tools degrades balloon-driver memory reclamation and time synchronization but is not a direct cause of the CPU spike pattern shown; it does not directly increase packet-processing or I/O wait cycles.

A vSphere administrator observes a CPU spike on one of the web servers (view the Exhibit.) Which two statements can describe the cause of this activity? (Choose two.)

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