VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An administrator notices that a vSphere cluster is experiencing intermittent performance issues. Upon investigation, they discover that vCenter Server is frequently losing connectivity with one ESXi host for 30-60 seconds at a time, but the host continues to run virtual machines without interruption. What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

A virtual machine running a database application is experiencing poor disk performance. The administrator checks and finds that the VM has 4 virtual disks, all stored on the same datastore with default settings. The datastore is backed by SSD storage and has plenty of free space. What configuration change would MOST likely improve disk I/O performance?

An organization has a 6-host vSphere cluster with vSphere HA enabled. The cluster is configured with admission control using the 'Host failures cluster tolerates' policy set to 2. Currently, all hosts are running at 60% CPU utilization. An administrator attempts to power on a new virtual machine but receives an 'Insufficient resources' error. What is the MOST likely reason for this failure?

A company is experiencing network connectivity issues with VMs on a distributed port group. The administrator discovers that the uplink associated with the active path for this port group has failed, but VMs are not failing over to the standby uplink. The distributed switch is configured with 'Route based on originating virtual port' load balancing and 'Link status only' for network failure detection. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

An administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine with a 2TB virtual disk from one datastore to another while the VM remains powered on. The source datastore is nearly full, and the destination datastore has 3TB of free space. The VM is running a mission-critical application that cannot tolerate downtime. What migration approach should the administrator use?

A virtualized application server requires guaranteed network bandwidth of 5 Gbps for proper operation. The administrator has configured a network resource pool on the distributed switch with a 'Shares' value set to High and a reservation of 5000 Mbps. However, the application still experiences network performance issues during peak usage times. What additional configuration is required?

During a vSphere HA failover event, some virtual machines successfully restarted on surviving hosts, but several VMs with high memory configurations failed to restart and show as 'orphaned' in vCenter. The cluster has adequate total memory across surviving hosts. What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

An administrator is designing storage for a vSphere environment that will host VMs with varying I/O requirements. They plan to use a single large datastore with multiple VMs. Which combination of features should they implement to ensure fair resource allocation while protecting critical workloads from noisy neighbors?

A virtual machine is configured with 4 vCPUs and is running on a host with 2 physical CPU sockets, each containing 8 cores. The VM is experiencing performance issues, and the administrator notices high 'CPU Ready' values in performance charts. The host's overall CPU utilization is at 45%. What action would MOST effectively address this performance issue?

An administrator is troubleshooting vMotion failures in a cluster. The error message indicates 'The VMotion network is not properly configured on source or destination host.' Both hosts have VMkernel adapters configured with vMotion enabled, and the adapters are on the same VLAN and subnet. Ping tests between the VMkernel IPs succeed. What additional configuration should the administrator verify?