Which of the following products can help you monitor and detect non-compliant hosts?

After a recent change control problem, your management team is asking you to implement a
solution that will identify and monitor unauthorized changes that have been made to your vSphere
environment. Which of the following products can help you monitor and detect non-compliant
hosts?

After a recent change control problem, your management team is asking you to implement a
solution that will identify and monitor unauthorized changes that have been made to your vSphere
environment. Which of the following products can help you monitor and detect non-compliant
hosts?

A.
VMware host profiles

B.
VMware Fusion

C.
vCenter Configuration Manager

D.
vCenter Operations Manager

Explanation:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Host-Profiles-TechOverview.pdf(page 5)



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shaaz

shaaz

I think answer is C.

zee

zee

answer C (control changes in vm config)
vOps Mgr is for monitoring server performance 😛

Anh em

Anh em

i think answer is A

ranja

ranja

Correct answer A

cookie monster

cookie monster

Answer is C. Check out the videos on whats new in vSphere 5.5.
Its talking about unauthorized configuration changes…so its going to be a configuration manager.

Nit

Nit

Which one is the correct answer…
does any one knows exactley..this is a mess

JJF

JJF

Question is to “identify and monitor unauthorized changes that have been made to your vSphere environment.”

Answer : C (vCenter Configuration Manager)

Izzi

Izzi

“Using Host Profiles in the vSphere Web Client

The Host Profiles feature creates a profile that encapsulates the host configuration and helps to manage the host configuration, especially in environments where an administrator manages multiple hosts or clusters in vCenter Server.

Host Profiles provide an automated and centrally-managed mechanism for host configuration and configuration compliance. Host Profiles can improve efficiency by reducing reliance upon repetitive, manual tasks. Host Profiles capture the configuration of a pre-configured and validated reference host, store the configuration as a managed object and use the catalog of parameters contained within to configure networking, storage, security and other host-level parameters. Host Profiles can be applied to either individual hosts or to a cluster; applying a Host Profile to a cluster will affect all hosts in the cluster and result in a consistent configuration across all hosts in that cluster.

Host Profiles can be used to validate the configuration of a host by checking compliance of a host or cluster against the Host Profile that is associated with that host or cluster. ”

This is from:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.hostprofiles.doc/GUID-9340FE80-356E-4457-8581-CE7B2830442E.html

Looks like answer should be A

Mark

Mark

To muddy the waters even more;

Configuration Manager provides the following benefits to the environment:

Improved operational effectiveness by continually auditing configurations in the infrastructure and being able to correct problems to ensure compliance with a given standard configuration

Reduction of security threats due to changes in the environment

Minimized effort needed for configuration compliance in an automated manner Out-of-the-box compliance baselines to cover a broad range of standards that are preconfigured

Vandenbeld, Matthew; McDonald, Jonathan (2014-05-08). VCA-DCV Official Cert Guide: VMware Certified Associate – Data Center Virtualization (VMware Press Certification) (Kindle Locations 1558-1561). Pearson Education. Kindle Edition.

Mark

Mark

This is quote from a 5.5 the test is on 6.0. Also IMHO this would seem to apply to the provisioning phase of the life cycle as opposes to day to day support and monitoring.

Carlos

Carlos

I think is D