VCP550 · Question #60
A system administrator needs to control the allocation of memory and CPU resources to an organization's Finance team. The vSphere environment is built on a single cluster of ESXi hosts. Which feature
The correct answer is A. Resource Pool Reservations. Resource Pool Reservations provide a guaranteed minimum allocation of CPU and memory to a defined group of virtual machines, making them the correct mechanism for dedicating cluster resources to a specific organizational team.
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A system administrator needs to control the allocation of memory and CPU resources to an organization's Finance team. The vSphere environment is built on a single cluster of ESXi hosts. Which feature can be used to accomplish this task?
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- AResource Pool Reservations
- BDRS set to Fully Automated
- CVirtual Machine Shares
- DDRS Virtual Machine Groups
How the community answered
(24 responses)- A75% (18)
- B13% (3)
- C8% (2)
- D4% (1)
Why each option
Resource Pool Reservations provide a guaranteed minimum allocation of CPU and memory to a defined group of virtual machines, making them the correct mechanism for dedicating cluster resources to a specific organizational team.
A Resource Pool configured with Reservations guarantees that the virtual machines placed inside it always have access to at least the specified amount of CPU and memory, regardless of contention from other workloads in the cluster. This makes Resource Pool Reservations the purpose-built vSphere feature for partitioning cluster resources by organizational team or department within a single cluster environment.
DRS set to Fully Automated balances VM placement across hosts to optimize resource utilization cluster-wide, but does not reserve or restrict resources for any specific team or group of VMs.
Virtual Machine Shares set a relative priority for resource access during contention for individual VMs, but do not provide guaranteed minimum allocations and do not logically group VMs by organizational team.
DRS Virtual Machine Groups define sets of VMs for VM-Host affinity placement rules to control which hosts VMs run on, not to allocate or reserve CPU and memory resources for organizational groups.
Concept tested: Resource Pool reservations for organizational resource allocation
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/
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