VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An administrator is designing a vSphere cluster that will run mixed workloads including both CPU-intensive batch processing jobs and latency-sensitive web applications. The cluster has four ESXi hosts with varying CPU capabilities. Which combination of features should be implemented to ensure optimal resource allocation?

A vSphere administrator notices that a virtual machine is experiencing poor storage performance. After checking the performance charts, they observe that the Average Device Latency (davg) is 25ms, the Average Kernel Latency (kavg) is 2ms, and the Average Guest Latency (gavg) is 1ms. What is the most likely cause and appropriate action?

An organization is implementing a new vSphere distributed switch (VDS) to support multiple VLANs for production, development, and management traffic. They need to ensure that virtual machine network connectivity is maintained during host failures and that network administrators can manage the switch centrally. Which two components must be properly configured?

A company has a vSphere cluster with Storage DRS enabled on a datastore cluster containing four VMFS datastores. The administrator notices that Storage DRS is generating recommendations but not automatically applying them, even though automation level is set to Fully Automated. What are the two most likely causes?

An administrator needs to upgrade a vSphere cluster from version 7.0 to 8.0. The cluster contains 6 ESXi hosts running production VMs with DRS enabled in fully automated mode and HA configured. What is the recommended sequence to minimize downtime and maintain cluster protection?

A virtual machine running a database application is configured with 8 vCPUs and 32GB of memory. The administrator observes that the VM's CPU Ready time is consistently above 10% and the host has 70% CPU utilization across 16 physical cores. What is the most appropriate solution to improve VM performance?

An administrator is configuring vSphere HA for a 5-host cluster. The cluster contains VMs with varying levels of importance. Management wants to ensure that critical VMs restart first during a host failure and that sufficient resources are always available. Which combination of settings achieves this goal?

A company is implementing a new virtual machine that requires guaranteed network throughput of 8 Gbps for a data replication application. The ESXi host has two 10 Gbps physical NICs connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. Which feature should be configured to meet this requirement?

An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine that cannot power on. The error message indicates insufficient resources. The VM is configured with a 50GB memory reservation, and the cluster has 200GB of total memory with 80GB currently consumed by running VMs. DRS is enabled in fully automated mode. What is preventing the VM from powering on?

A vSphere environment uses a VMFS datastore backed by a SAN LUN. The administrator needs to expand the datastore capacity to accommodate additional virtual machines. The storage team has increased the LUN size from 2TB to 4TB at the array level. What steps must the administrator take in vSphere to utilize the additional space?