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In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2, design qualities (non-functional requirements) categorizehowthe system operates. The network team’s requirements focus on redundancy and routing diversity, which the architect must classify. Let’s evaluate:

Option A: Availability

This is correct. Availability ensures the solution remains operational and accessible. “N+N redundancy” (e.g., dual active components where N failures are tolerated by N spares) for physical networking components eliminates single points of failure, ensuring continuous network uptime. “Diversely routed inter-datacenter links” prevents outages from a single path failure, enhancing availability across sites. In VCF, these align with high-availability network design (e.g., NSX Edge uplink redundancy), makingavailabilitythe proper classification.

Option B: Performance

Performance addresses speed, throughput, or latency (e.g., “10 Gbps links”). Redundancy and diverse routing might indirectly support performance by avoiding bottlenecks, but the primary intent is uptime, not speed. This doesn’t fit the stated requirements’ focus.

Option C: Recoverability

Recoverability focuses on restoring service after a failure (e.g., backups, failover time). N+N redundancy and diverse routingpreventdowntime rather than recover from it. While related, the requirements emphasize proactive uptime (availability) over post-failure recovery, making this incorrect.

Option D: Manageability

Manageability concerns ease of administration (e.g., monitoring, configuration). Redundancy and routing diversity are infrastructure design choices, not management processes. This quality doesn’t apply.

Conclusion:The architect should classify the requirement asAvailability (A). It ensures the VCF solution’s network remains operational, aligning with VCF 5.2’s focus on resilient design.

References:

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Planning and Preparation Guide (Section: Design Qualities)

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Architecture and Deployment Guide (Section: Network Availability)

VMware’s design methodology (per VCF 5.2) uses design qualities to categorize requirements based on their focus. The qualities include Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability, and Security. Let’s classify the two requirements:

Requirement 1: In the event of a site-level disaster, the solution must enable all production workloads to be restarted in the secondary siteThis describes the ability to recover workloads after a site failure, focusing on restoring operations in a secondary location. TheVCF 5.2 Architectural Guidealigns this withRecoverability, which covers disaster recovery (DR) and the restoration of services post-failure.

Requirement 2: In the event of a host failure, workloads must be restarted in priority orderThis involves restarting workloads after a host failure (e.g., via vSphere HA) with prioritization, emphasizing recovery processes. While HA is often linked to Availability, the focus here on “restarting in priority order” shifts it to Recoverability, as it addresses how the system recovers from a failure, per VMware’s design quality definitions.

Option A: AvailabilityAvailability ensures system uptime and fault tolerance (e.g., HA preventing downtime). While host failure recovery involves HA, the emphasis on “restarting” and site-level DR points more to Recoverability than ongoing availability.

Option B: ManageabilityManageability focuses on ease of administration (e.g., monitoring, automation). Neither requirement relates to operational management but rather to failure recovery processes.

Option C: PerformancePerformance addresses speed and efficiency (e.g., latency, throughput). These requirements don’t specify performance metrics, focusing instead on recovery capabilities.

Option D: RecoverabilityRecoverability ensures the system can restore services after failures, encompassing both site-level DR (secondary site restart) and host-level recovery (prioritized restarts). TheVCF 5.2 Design Guideclassifies DR and failover recovery under Recoverability, making it the best fit.

Conclusion:Both requirements align withRecoverability, as they focus on restoring workloads after failures (site-level and host-level), per VMware’s design quality framework.References:

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Architectural Guide(docs.vmware.com): Design Qualities and Recoverability Section.

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Design Guide(docs.vmware.com): Classifying Requirements by Design Quality.

The test case must validate all three requirements: maintaining 1,000 TPS during business hours (REQ001), using automatic DRS and HA (REQ002), and ensuring maintenance occurs outside business hours (REQ003, implying minimal disruption during business hours). Let’s assess each:

Option A: Trigger a vSphere High Availability (HA) failover activityHA failover (e.g., host failure) tests automatic VM restarts (REQ002) and ensures TPS (REQ001) remains at 1,000 during business hours under failure conditions (excluding DR, as this is intra-site). TheVCF 5.2 Administration Guiderecommends HA testing to validate availability, making this valid.

Option B: Trigger a vSAN disk group cache drive failureA cache drive failure in vSAN tests data resilience and HA’s ability to restart VMs if needed (REQ002), while monitoring TPS (REQ001) during business hours. ThevSAN Administration Guidesupports this as a standard test for vSAN performance and recovery, aligning with the requirements.

Option C: Trigger fully automatic DRS vMotion activityFully automatic DRS triggers vMotion to balance loads (REQ002), testing TPS (REQ001) during business hours without disruption. While not maintenance, it validates DRS automation’s impact on performance, per thevSphere Resource Management Guide, making it a valid test.

Option D: Trigger a vCenter upgrade workflowA vCenter upgrade is a planned maintenance activity (REQ003) that should occur outside business hours. Performing it during business hours to monitor TPS contradicts REQ003 and isn’t a typical test for DRS/HA (REQ002) or application performance (REQ001), as it affects management, not workloads directly. TheVCF 5.2 Administration Guidetreats upgrades as separate from runtime validation.

Conclusion:Option D is not a valid test case, as it violates REQ003 and doesn’t directly validate REQ001 or REQ002 in a runtime context.References:

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Administration Guide(docs.vmware.com): HA and vSAN Testing.

vSphere Resource Management Guide(docs.vmware.com): DRS Automation Testing.

vSAN Administration Guide(docs.vmware.com): Disk Failure Scenarios.