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

Which replicated objects can be directly monitored and managed after subscribing to the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service?

1. Virtual machine Snapshots

2. vApps

3. Virtual machines

4. ESXi Hosts

The correct answer is: Virtual machines

Subscribing to the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service allows for the direct monitoring and management of virtual machines. This includes the ability to oversee their state, perform recovery operations, and manage replication as part of the disaster recovery strategy. Virtual machines are the core objects in a virtualized environment, and the service is designed to help users maintain operational continuity by enabling them to monitor the health and status of their virtualized workloads effectively. Other objects, such as vApps, can contain multiple virtual machines but are not monitored directly as standalone entities without considering the individual virtual machines within them. Virtual machine snapshots are a feature related to VM state management but are not treated as independent objects that can be managed in the context of disaster recovery within the service. Similarly, ESXi hosts are important components of the virtualization infrastructure but are not the primary focus of monitoring within vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, as the service is more aligned with the management of virtual workloads rather than the physical hosts on which they run.