What must a cloud provider administrator do to extend the number of ESXi hosts within a Provider VDC?

Question

Options

• AAdd the ESXi hosts to the vSphere cluster that backs the provider VDC, and navigate to the
• BAdd the ESXi hosts to the vSphere cluster that backs the provider VDC.
• CWithin Cloud Director, navigate to the Infrastructure Resources, select Hosts, and click add.
• DAdd the ESXi hosts to the vSphere cluster that backs the provider VDC, and validate that the

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  95% (39)
• C
  2% (1)

Explanation

Option B is correct because Cloud Director automatically discovers additional capacity when ESXi hosts are added to the underlying vSphere cluster - no further action within the Cloud Director UI is required. The Provider VDC inherits resources directly from its backing cluster, so the vSphere-level change is sufficient.

Options A and D are distractors designed to trick you into thinking extra steps inside Cloud Director are necessary (both are intentionally truncated to imply additional actions like navigating to a UI screen or validating something manually) - these extra steps do not exist in the correct workflow. Option C is wrong because Cloud Director does not expose a direct "Add Host" button under Infrastructure Resources for extending a Provider VDC; host management happens at the vSphere layer, not the Cloud Director layer.

Memory tip: Think of Cloud Director as a consumer of vSphere resources, not a manager of them. To give Cloud Director more capacity, you always go one layer down to vSphere - add hosts to the cluster, and Cloud Director picks them up automatically. No round-trip to Cloud Director needed.

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