Hardware requirements for the ______ device are dependent upon the number and roles of the VMs it will be managing.

Hardware requirements for the ______ device are dependent upon the number and roles of the VMs it will be managing.

• A. Switch
• B. Router
• C. Host
• D. Client

Answer: (C)

When running virtual machines, the machine that hosts them must have enough hardware to support all the VMs and their tasks. The host needs sufficient CPU power, memory, storage speed, and network bandwidth to allocate to each VM (and to the hypervisor itself) without starving them. As you add more VMs or give them more demanding roles (such as databases or heavy application servers), the host must scale up its resources accordingly. A switch or router is a network device whose requirements are driven by throughput and port counts, not by the number of VMs you're managing on a separate machine. A client isn’t hosting VMs at all. So the hardware needs tied to the number and roles of the VMs point to the host.

When running virtual machines, the machine that hosts them must have enough hardware to support all the VMs and their tasks. The host needs sufficient CPU power, memory, storage speed, and network bandwidth to allocate to each VM (and to the hypervisor itself) without starving them. As you add more VMs or give them more demanding roles (such as databases or heavy application servers), the host must scale up its resources accordingly. A switch or router is a network device whose requirements are driven by throughput and port counts, not by the number of VMs you're managing on a separate machine. A client isn’t hosting VMs at all. So the hardware needs tied to the number and roles of the VMs point to the host.