3V0-21-23 practice question 2 of 15

An architect is discussing recoverability considerations for a new vSphere solution as part of a requirements workshop. The customer has informed the…

An architect is discussing recoverability considerations for a new vSphere solution as part of a requirements workshop. The customer has informed the architect that the company policy is to not perform backups of ESXi hosts due to their selected backup software not supporting the ESXi software. In the past, when hosts have experienced failures, the hosts have been reinstalled from the VMware provided ESXi image and manually configured by an administrator. The customer asks the architect to design a solution that will reduce the manual effort required by the administrator to return a failed host to service. What could the architect include in the design to meet the customer's request?

Answer options

A: Use the ESXi command line to perform backups of the ESXi hosts to a central location

B: Configure a host profile per cluster Correct answer

C: Create a custom iso image of ESXi and update it each time VMware releases a new update

D: Configure ESXi hosts with RAID1 boot volumes

Correct Answer:

B. Configure a host profile per cluster

Explanation

A Host Profile in vSphere allows for standardized host configurations across a cluster. Once a profile is created and configured for a cluster, it can be applied to any host in that cluster, ensuring that the configuration is consistent and easily replicated. In case of a host failure, the failed host can be reinstalled from the VMware ESXi image, and the Host Profile can be applied automatically to bring the host back to the desired configuration. This reduces the manual steps required for host recovery, as the configuration will be automatically applied to the reinstalled host.

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