VCP-VMC 2024 Question 39
Single answerYour organization has a critical workload running on a virtual machine (VM) in a VMware vSphere environment. The VM is hosted on an ESXi host with heavy CPU and memory usage, causing performance issues. The storage backing the VM is on a shared datastore with sufficient capacity and performance. You want to migrate the VM to another ESXi host with less resource contention without any downtime. Which VMware technology should you use in this scenario?
- A
vSphere vMotion
- B
vSphere Storage vMotion
- C
vSphere DRS
- D
vSphere High Availability (HA)
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The scenario involves resolving resource contention on an ESXi host while keeping the VM operational. vSphere vMotion is the ideal solution as it enables live migration of a VM to another host with better resource availability, ensuring no downtime. vSphere Storage vMotion and other options are not applicable to the issue described, as they either address storage migration or are designed for automated or failure-related scenarios.
- A. Correct.
vSphere vMotion is the correct choice as it allows for live migration of a VM between ESXi hosts without downtime, addressing the issue of resource contention on the current host.
- B. Incorrect.
vSphere Storage vMotion is used to migrate a VM's storage from one datastore to another without downtime, but it does not address the issue of host resource contention.
- C. Incorrect.
vSphere DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) can automatically balance workloads across hosts, but it requires a cluster configuration and may not be the manual solution required in this scenario.
- D. Incorrect.
vSphere High Availability (HA) is designed for failure recovery by restarting VMs on another host in case of a host failure, which is not relevant to resolving resource contention in this case.