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An administrator notices that a virtual machine on an NFS datastore is experiencing intermittent performance degradation. The ESXi hosts are connected to the NFS server via a 10 GbE network. The administrator uses esxtop and sees high average latency on the storage device, but the NFS server reports low latency. What is the most likely cause?
The most likely cause is network congestion causing TCP retransmissions. When the ESXi host sees high average latency on the NFS datastore but the NFS server reports low latency, it indicates that the delay is occurring in the network path between the host and the server, not on …Read full explanation
A company is implementing vSphere 7.0 and wants to encrypt all vMotion traffic between ESXi hosts in a cluster. The cluster is not using any other encryption features. What is the minimum requirement to enable vMotion encryption?
In vSphere 7.0, enabling vMotion encryption does not require Active Directory, a Key Management Server, Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC), or host profiles. The minimum requirement is simply to configure the vMotion encryption policy on each ESXi host (set to 'Required' or 'Op…Read full explanation
An administrator observes that a VM with 16 vCPUs on a 2-socket host (8 cores per socket, HT disabled) is experiencing poor performance. The VM's NUMA topology shows 2 vNUMA nodes, but performance is worse than expected. What is the most likely reason?
When a VM is configured with a single virtual socket containing 16 cores, vSphere presents two vNUMA nodes to the guest, but these nodes span both physical NUMA nodes. This causes the guest OS to schedule memory accesses across NUMA boundaries, leading to remote memory latency an…Read full explanation
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