2V0-32.24 Question 164
Select 3You are an administrator managing a VMware vSphere environment that includes multiple vCenter servers. Recently, you noticed that a critical virtual machine (VM) in your production environment experienced downtime due to a lack of storage space on its datastore. To prevent similar issues in the future, which combination of administrative and operational tasks should you implement?
- A
Configure datastore alarms in vCenter to monitor available free space.
- B
Enable proactive High Availability (HA) for the cluster to migrate VMs if a datastore runs out of space.
- C
Schedule regular capacity reports using vRealize Operations Manager to monitor storage trends.
- D
Configure Storage DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) to balance datastore workloads automatically.
- E
Manually monitor datastore free space using the vSphere Client every week.
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Correct answers: A, C, D
Explanation
To prevent storage-related downtime for critical VMs, it is essential to combine proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and automated balancing of workloads. Configuring datastore alarms ensures immediate alerts for low storage situations. Regular capacity reporting provides insights into storage trends and allows for long-term planning. Finally, enabling Storage DRS ensures that workloads are automatically distributed across datastores to avoid over-utilization. Manual monitoring or enabling HA are either insufficient or irrelevant for addressing storage capacity issues.
- A. Correct.
Configuring datastore alarms in vCenter is a proactive measure to monitor available free space and receive alerts before critical thresholds are reached. This helps prevent storage-related VM downtime.
- B. Incorrect.
High Availability (HA) is designed to protect against host failures, not datastore capacity issues. Therefore, enabling proactive HA does not address storage space challenges.
- C. Correct.
Scheduling regular capacity reports using vRealize Operations Manager is an effective operational task to understand storage usage trends and forecast potential capacity issues.
- D. Correct.
Enabling Storage DRS allows for automatic balancing of workloads across datastores, which can prevent individual datastores from becoming over-utilized.
- E. Incorrect.
Manually monitoring datastore free space is a reactive and inefficient approach, prone to human error, and does not provide the proactive management necessary for a production environment.