VCP-VVF IT Architectures Technologies Standards Practice Question
An administrator is designing a stretched vSphere Foundation 9.0 cluster across two data centers separated by 30km. According to vSphere clustering design best practices, where should the vCenter Server Appliance be placed?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Hosted in one of the primary data centers with vCenter High Availability (VCHA) configured across the sites, ensuring the active, passive, and witness nodes are appropriately distributed.
Placing vCenter Server on one of the preferred data centers or running it with high availability (such as vCenter HA) inside the primary site while ensuring database consistency is standard architecture, avoiding split-brain across sites without proper witness support.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✓
Hosted in one of the primary data centers with vCenter High Availability (VCHA) configured across the sites, ensuring the active, passive, and witness nodes are appropriately distributed.
Why this is correct
Correct. VCHA protects the vCenter management plane across sites when deployed with proper node separation.
- ✗
Installed directly onto a physical laptop kept at the administrator's desk.
Why it's wrong here
Placing vCenter on a laptop violates all enterprise high availability standards.
- ✗
Split evenly across both data centers running active-active clustering simultaneously on the same IP address.
Why it's wrong here
vCenter does not support active-active clustering of the same instance across nodes without VCHA (which uses active/passive/witness architecture).
- ✗
Running exclusively inside a public cloud AWS region with no local network connectivity to the ESXi hosts.
Why it's wrong here
vCenter must maintain low-latency management connectivity to the ESXi hosts it manages.
About these practice questions
This VCP-VVF question is part of Courseiva's 517-question bank — original exam-style content with full explanations and wrong-answer analysis, never real exam questions or exam dumps. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written and reviewed by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official VMware exam blueprint
This VCP-VVF practice question is part of Courseiva's free VMware certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the VCP-VVF exam.