Which option should an administrator select to achieve the lowest cost in Workload Optimization?

Question

Options

• ABalance
• BEfficiency
• CShrink
• DConsolidate

• B
  3% (1)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  93% (37)

Explanation

Consolidate is correct because it directs the optimizer to pack workloads onto the fewest possible hosts, then power down or decommission underutilized resources - directly minimizing infrastructure spend and operational costs.

• Balance (A) distributes workloads evenly across resources to optimize performance, not cost - it may actually spread load across more hosts than necessary.
• Efficiency (B) targets a middle ground between performance and cost savings, so it won't drive costs as low as possible.
• Shrink (C) right-sizes individual VMs by reducing over-provisioned CPU/memory, which saves some cost but does not reduce the number of active hosts the way consolidation does.

Memory tip: Think "Consolidate = combine everything onto fewer machines and turn the rest off" - fewer running machines = lowest possible cost. If the question mentions lowest cost, always map that to consolidation, not efficiency or balance.

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