2V0-32.24 Question 50
Single answerA company is planning to deploy a hybrid cloud environment using VMware Cloud Foundation. During the design phase, the cloud architect identifies a need to ensure high availability for critical workloads while optimizing resource utilization. Which design consideration should the architect prioritize to achieve these requirements?
- A
Implement vSphere High Availability (HA) and DRS to balance workloads and provide failover capabilities.
- B
Deploy a stretched cluster across all data centers to ensure active-active workload placement.
- C
Use vSAN with RAID-0 to maximize resource utilization for storage.
- D
Configure resource pools with fixed limits to ensure workload prioritization.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The combination of vSphere High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is the most appropriate design consideration for ensuring high availability and optimizing resource utilization. HA provides failover capabilities by restarting workloads on available hosts in case of a failure, while DRS dynamically balances workloads across the cluster to optimize performance and resource usage. This directly meets the requirements outlined in the scenario.
- A. Correct.
vSphere High Availability (HA) ensures that workloads are restarted on another host in case of a failure, while DRS optimizes workload distribution across the cluster to improve resource utilization. This option directly addresses high availability and resource optimization.
- B. Incorrect.
While a stretched cluster can provide active-active workload placement, it is not always necessary and may introduce additional latency and complexity. This is not the most efficient solution for the scenario described.
- C. Incorrect.
Using vSAN with RAID-0 does not provide redundancy or fault tolerance for critical workloads. While it maximizes storage utilization, it compromises high availability, which is a key requirement in this scenario.
- D. Incorrect.
Configuring resource pools with fixed limits may help in workload prioritization, but it can lead to inefficient resource utilization and does not address failover capabilities for high availability.