An architect is tasked with designing a greenfield VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that will be used to deliver a private cloud service for a customer.
During the initial meeting with the service owner and business sponsor, the customer has provided the following information to help inform the design:
* The solution must initially support the concurrent running of 300 production and 600 development virtual machines.
* The production environment should be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers.
* The development environment must be vSphere-based but does not have to be deployed on-premises.
* The two data centers are connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links.
* The customer's server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be based on blade architecture only.
* The service owner has said that is important to ensure that neither the availability target of 99.5% nor the resource capacity is affected when the operations team completes maintenance activities, such as the monthly software patching and ad-hoc hardware break/fix.
* All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service.
* The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is four hours.
* The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is 24 hours.
Given the information from the customer, which two would be classified as assumptions within the design?
(Choose two.)

An architect will be taking over control of a former Linux server fleet and repurposing the hardware into a new vSphere cluster. The current environment is already connected to the network but the hosts do not have any local disks. Since the fleet hardware is uniform, the architect can use a single ESXi image. All hosts within the cluster have the same CPU and memory capacity.
Which ESXi deployment method should the architect use?

Which design decision must be included in a design to allow for the deployment of a minimum supported configuration of vCenter High Availability (HA)?

An architect is tasked with reviewing the design of a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) for a software development company. The platform is used to developing applications and services. It is important that the customer be able to accurately benchmark performance of developed applications.
The platform has recently commissioned new hosts to update the development cluster.
The development cluster host configuration is:
* 4 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets × 16 cores
* 512 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
* There is no resource contention
The benchmarking cluster host configuration is:
* 8 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets × 8 cores
* 256 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
* There is no resource contention
The customer is developing an application that includes a database virtual machine. The application developer states that the database virtual machine performs as required only when allocated 8 vCPUs 256 GB RAM. The database virtual machine performance meets the required levels when run from the development cluster.
Performance benchmarking for the database virtual machine yields highly variable results when run from the benchmarking cluster. The application cannot be released without reliable performance benchmarking data.
What is a possible reason for the difference in performance test results between the development and benchmarking clusters?

An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
The environment must support 5,000 virtual machines.
The environment will be built initially using 350 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?