An architect is designing the virtual networking components of a vSphere-based solution that will provide an environment for the development of a new latency sensitive stock trading application.
The following information was identified within the initial meeting with the customer:
The customer has vCenter Standard and vSphere Standard licenses left over from a previous project.
The customer ' s CFO has approved budget for additional purchases, if required.
The following requirements were also identified during the meeting:
The solution must support 500 development workloads concurrently running in the secondary site.
The solution must support the ability to complete all vSphere Operational Management centrally.
The solution must ensure business-critical applications are not impacted by vSphere system-level operations.
Given the requirements, the architect has decided on a single 20-node cluster for development.
Which three additional design decisions should the architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
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Correct answer: B, E, F
The solution will deploy VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus on all hosts within the cluster.
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus offers advanced networking and storage features that will support the required high availability, performance, and management capabilities. Features such as Distributed Switches and Network I/O Control (NIOC) are critical to meeting the business-critical application and performance requirements for the latency-sensitive stock trading application.
The solution will deploy a single vSphere Distributed Switch with each host connected to it.
A vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) is ideal for managing network configurations centrally across multiple hosts, which meets the requirement for centralized vSphere operational management. It also ensures consistent network configurations and simplifies network management at scale.
The solution will configure Network I/O control to ensure that system-level bandwidth does not impact workload network traffic.
Network I/O Control (NIOC) is essential for prioritizing network traffic, ensuring that latency-sensitive workloads are not impacted by other system-level or less critical traffic. This is crucial for the performance requirements of the stock trading application.