Company X wants to install Application Y in a virtualized environment. The
underlying operating system has to be Windows 2003 SP1. In a physical environment,
the application and supporting software have very strict minimum hardware
requirements. Which requirement(s) would prohibit the use of this application inside a
virtual machine?
A.
a minimum disk size of 2 TB
B.
a minimum of 4 available SCSI adapters
C.
4 CPUs and 4.5 GB RAM
D.
3 NICs and 3 SCSI adapters
Explanation:
The max size of a virtual disk is 2TB minus 512B, "a minimum disk size of 2 TB" cannot
be met.
"a minimum of 4 available SCSI adapters" is possible because ESX 4 supports up to 4
SCSI adapters per virtual machine.
"4 CPUs and 4.5 GB RAM "is possible because up to 8 CPUs and 255GB RAM are
allowed per virtual machine.
"3 NICs and 3 SCSI adapters" is also possible because the number of virtual PCI slots
was increased to allow for the configuration maximums as specified in the following
URL.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf
While "3 NICs and 3 SCSI adapters" would be true for hardware revision 4 because it
had 5 free virtual PCI slots, hardware revision 7 does not have that limitation. This
practice exam is for vSphere 4 and the question does not specify which hardware version.