As a platform designer, you have been asked to create a design for a vSphere 5 platform. Based
on existing capacity state analysis, the platform will require 30 hosts and 250 guest VMs. Due to
an existing vendor relationship with the enterprise, the preferred database for all datacenter
systems is Microsoft SQL 2008. Which of the following vCenter deployments can be used based
on this constraint?

A.
VCSA with a remote Microsoft SQL 2008 database

B.
Windows-based vCenter with a local Microsoft SQL 2008 database

C.
VCSA with an embedded Microsoft database

D.
Any of the above would meet the requirements.

Explanation: