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A systems administrator is configuring a workstation to host three concurrent Type 2 guest virtual machines (VMs) for software testing. The host system is equipped with an 8-core/16-thread CPU and 64 GB64\text{ GB} of physical DDR5 RAM. The host OS requires a baseline reservation of 8 GB8\text{ GB} of RAM, while each guest VM requires 16 GB16\text{ GB} of allocated RAM and direct hardware access to dedicated USB capture cards attached to the host. Which of the following host firmware settings and hardware resource configurations must be established to satisfy these virtual machine requirements? (Select TWO.)

  1. Enable Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) support in the host motherboard UEFI/BIOS settingsCevap
  2. Enable IOMMU (Intel VT-d / AMD-Vi) virtualization extensions in the host motherboard UEFI/BIOS settingsCevap
  3. C
    Increase individual guest memory allocations to 20 GB20\text{ GB} per VM to account for dynamic hypervisor memory translation overhead
  4. D
    Disable Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) in the host firmware to force a 1:1 physical core mapping for all 12 vCPUs

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Enabling Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) and enabling IOMMU (Intel VT-d / AMD-Vi) extensions in the host UEFI/BIOS are required.
Enabling Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) reduces page table management overhead by delegating memory mapping directly to the host CPU hardware. Enabling IOMMU (Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi) in the motherboard firmware provides Direct Memory Access (DMA) and interrupt remapping necessary to pass physical USB devices directly into guest VMs.

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1
Calculate host RAM headroom
Total host physical RAM = 64 GB64\text{ GB}. Host OS baseline requirement = 8 GB8\text{ GB}. Three guest VMs at 16 GB16\text{ GB} each = 48 GB48\text{ GB}. Total memory consumed = 48 GB+8 GB=56 GB48\text{ GB} + 8\text{ GB} = 56\text{ GB}, leaving 8 GB8\text{ GB} free host margin.
Verifies that memory is not overcommitted under default allocations.
2
Identify hardware pass-through requirements
Direct pass-through of physical host hardware (USB capture cards) requires IOMMU (Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi) to be enabled in UEFI/BIOS.
Allows guest operating systems to re-map physical DMA operations and access PCI/USB devices directly.
3
Identify CPU hardware virtualization optimization requirements
Second Level Address Translation (SLAT / EPT / RVI) must be enabled in UEFI/BIOS.
SLAT offloads virtual-to-physical memory address translation from the software hypervisor to the CPU hardware, preventing major performance degradation when multiple VMs are running.

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