An administrator has been tasked with creating an alert in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations with the following settings: Wait cycle: 2 Cancel cycle: 2 Assuming the alert is not resolved, how much time elapses by default between the symptom triggering and the alert automatically cancelling itself?

In VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (Aria Operations), the default data collection interval is 5 minutes. The 'Wait cycle' specifies the number of collection cycles a symptom must be true before an alert is generated. The 'Cancel cycle' specifies the number of cycles the symptom must be false before the alert is canceled. Therefore, the time to generate the alert is 2 cycles 5 minutes/cycle = 10 minutes. The time to cancel the alert once the condition clears is also 2 cycles 5 minutes/cycle = 10 minutes. The total elapsed time from the initial trigger through generation and subsequent cancellation is 10 + 10 = 20 minutes.

A. 40 minutes is an incorrect calculation, possibly doubling the correct time or using a 10-minute collection interval.
B. 4 minutes is an incorrect calculation and does not align with the default 5-minute collection cycle.
C. 10 minutes represents only the time for the alert to be generated (the wait cycle), not the total time until cancellation.

1. VMware Aria Operations Documentation, "Creating and Modifying Alert Definitions". The documentation states, "The wait cycle specifies how many collection cycles a symptom must be true before an alert is generated... The cancel cycle specifies how many collection cycles a symptom must be false before an alert is canceled."

2. VMware Aria Operations Documentation, "Policy Workspace". In the section on collection settings, it is stated, "The collection interval is the time between collections, which is five minutes by default."