An engineer is running a server as a hypervisor for 15?0 VMs. Which of the following components are the MOST essential for this server to maintain this parameter? (Choose two.)

Local hard drives are useful but VMs can use networked storage such as SAN or NAS, making local drives a convenience rather than a fundamental constraint on running 150 VMs.

Each VM requires virtual CPUs that map to physical cores - without sufficient cores, all VMs compete for CPU time causing severe contention and inability to schedule workloads at scale. At 150 VMs, physical core count is a hard ceiling on concurrent VM execution.

Each VM requires a dedicated RAM allocation that must be physically present in the host - with 150 VMs, total memory demand is the sum of every VM's allocation. Insufficient memory forces the hypervisor into memory ballooning or swapping, which severely degrades all VM performance.

Multiple NICs improve bandwidth and redundancy but are not the primary bottleneck for VM density - a single NIC can serve many VMs through virtual switching.

PCI slots allow physical expansion cards but are not consumed per-VM, so they do not directly limit how many VMs can be hosted.