A group of new virtual machines have been deployed using thin-provisioned disks due to the limited storage space available in an environment. The storage team has expressed concern about extensive use of this type of provisioning.
An administrator is tasked with creating a custom alarm to notify the storage team when thin provisioning reaches a certain capacity threshold.
Where must the administrator define this alarm?
To create an alarm for thin provisioning reaching a certain capacity threshold, the administrator must define the alarm at the Datastore level. This is where specific metrics related to datastore usage and capacity can be closely monitored. Defining the alarm at the datastore level ensures that the storage team's concerns are directly addressed by monitoring the actual storage unit where thin provisioning occurs.
A datastore cluster is not mentioned, so it should be creating the alarm on the datastore. Answer A
Datastore Cluster IS mentioned. Option "C"
where ?! Read the question again
I logged on to my vCenter and tried if I can created a disk provisioned alarm on datacenter object, but there is no such alarm on DC object. So the correct answer here is A: Datastore
Since no datastores are menthioned, the answer shoulb be "DATACENTER" cause all the DS will be monitored. Otherwise you should set the alarm manually for all DS.
I would choose B - Data center The description does not mention that all thin provisioned disks are located on the same datastore. Configuring it on the data center would cover all datastores in this datacenter.
buy why would the storage team be concerned about alerts on the data store? The ques mentions the alert is for storage team.
tricky. But as the question do not mention a specific datastore we can consider that this alarm should work for all storage in the organisation. So I bet for answer B
The most effective way is setting one alarm on the DataCenter, covering for all Datastores
You can create an alarm definition for "Datastore Disk Usage" under datacenter, datastore cluster and datastore and spread what you have triggered under a relevent target type which will be an appropriate child objects (for example "All datastore", "All datastore cluster" and the other type of objects because you will not find it the "Datastore Disk Usage" ). So i think the purpose of the question is not "where is it possible to configure" but how should it be configured. But if you choose "Datastore Cluster" it will monitor the aggregation of all the datastore and it will not be relevent because you can have the threshold triggered on datastore but it will not trigger the alarm defined under the datastore cluster. => "Datastore" Option A
You can't create "Datastore usage on disk" alert at Datacenter object level.
Yes, you are right. I tried it on my vCenter and found once you select DC object to create an alarm, the only 2 option for storage are rename type and not disk usage or datastore usage. So the answer is A: Datastore
Question is not worded properly but will pick A. Datastore as it is documented. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-monitoring-performance/GUID-82933270-1D72-4CF3-A1AF-E5A1343F62DE.html#:~:text=Datastore%20usage%20on%20disk
Alarm should be set on datastore.
A is correct
Answer A is correct. specifical location/object(Where) B is an method of 3 methods how to enable/disable A option We can set alarm to minitor datastore usage by using vSphere Web Client(Data center)/vSphere Client/vSphere PowerCLI https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2076157#:~:text=Using%20the%20vSphere%20Web%20Client%3A%201%20Navigate%20to,Edit.%208%20Select%20the%20Enable%20this%20alarm%20option.
B - for all DS in this DC A - yes but only for single DS