VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) Practice Exam

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Which feature allows virtual machines to maintain connectivity even if a management IP address is altered incorrectly?

vMotion
High Availability
Distributed Resource Scheduler
Fault Tolerance

The correct answer is: High Availability

High Availability (HA) is a feature designed to ensure that virtual machines (VMs) can maintain their uptime and connectivity, even in the event of a failure such as a host crash or networking issue. In the scenario where a management IP address is altered incorrectly, HA comes into play by automatically restarting VMs on another host within the cluster, helping to restore connectivity and functionality without manual intervention. This ability to restart VMs on any available host in the cluster mitigates the impact of the configuration error and helps maintain service availability. vMotion primarily facilitates live migration of VMs between hosts without downtime, but it does not directly address connectivity issues caused by an incorrect IP address configuration. The Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) optimizes resource allocation among VMs based on their demands but does not deal with VM connectivity per se. Fault Tolerance offers continuous availability by creating a live shadow instance of a VM; however, it does not inherently address the situation of misconfigured management IP addresses. Thus, High Availability stands out as the feature specifically designed to handle scenarios that compromise VM connectivity due to management configuration errors.