CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 Practice Question
An organization is migrating eight application servers to a single VMware ESXi host. The host contains two 8-core processors (hyper-threading disabled) and 128 GB of ECC RAM. Corporate standards allow at most a 4 : 1 vCPU-to-pCPU overprovisioning ratio and expressly forbid memory overcommit (every powered-on VM must be backed by physical RAM). Each virtual machine will be deployed with 6 vCPUs and 16 GB of static, non-ballooned memory. When the administrator attempts to power on all eight VMs, which outcome should be expected?
Memory resources stay within policy limits, but the vCPU allocation violates the authorized overprovisioning ratio.
Neither CPU nor memory allocations exceed policy; all eight VMs will start without issue.
CPU resources stay within policy limits, but the host will exhaust physical memory during the power-on process.
Both CPU and memory allocations exceed policy, so ESXi will refuse to power on any of the virtual machines.