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E20-880 · Question #21

A customer has installed a VNX storage system for their VMware cluster based environment with six ESX hosts. The ESX will be dedicated for MS SQL servers supporting two heavy SQL online transaction…

The correct answer is A. Two ESX hosts in scale-up approach; four ESX hosts in scale-out approach. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A customer has installed a VNX storage system for their VMware cluster based environment with six ESX hosts. The ESX will be dedicated for MS SQL servers supporting two heavy SQL online transaction processing applications with multiple instances and 16 single SQL instance applications. You are designing the scaling approach scope for those ESX hosts. What is your recommendation in scaling the deployment of SQL servers?

Options

  • ATwo ESX hosts in scale-up approach; four ESX hosts in scale-out approach
  • BTwo ESX hosts in scale-out approach; four ESX hosts in scale-up approach
  • CSix ESX hosts in scale-out approach running 32bit OS and applications
  • DSix ESX hosts in scale-out approach using DRS for load balancing

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