Which two prerequisites are required before a vSAN administrator is able to use the vSAN Performance Diagnostics feature? (Choose two.) The vSAN Performance Service must be enabled. The vSAN Health Service must be turned on. vSAN File Services must be disabled before running vSAN Performance Diagnostics. Participation in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) must be enabled. Verbose Mode must be enabled when configuring vSAN monitoring.
When viewing the VMware Skyline Health: vSAN Object Health report, the vSAN administrator observes that the link “Repair Objects Immediately” is enabled.
What is the meaning of this message? One or more objects have absent components. Immediate action must be taken to effect object repair. One or more objects have become inaccessible. The repair delay timer has elapsed, and “synchronization has begun.
Which vSAN advanced setting can be adjusted to avoid rebuild operations during a host hardware maintenance window that is expected to exceed 90 minutes? Forced Provisioning Thin Swap Object Repair Timer Automatic Rebalance.
A vSAN administrator wants to transition from VMware Update Manager to vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
Which element is a mandatory requirement to create an image? Component Vendor Add-On ESXi Version Firmware and Drivers Add-On.
A vSAN administrator received the following alert from vRealize Operations Manager:
“VMKernel NIC is experiencing high number of dropped packets.”
What is the quickest path in vRealize Operations Manager that should be used to further investigate this alert? Home -> vSphere Optimization Assessment Home -> Troubleshoot -> vSAN Alerts -> Triggered Alerts Environment -> vSAN and Storage Devices.
An administrator has been tasked with physically moving the hosts in a vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster to an alternative location. All virtual machines, hosts, and the vCenter Server have need safely powered sown, and the servers have been relocated. Afterwards, the operations engineer needs to bring up the vSAN cluster again.
Which action is part of this process? Powering on each ESXi host from the vSphere Client Entering Maintenance Mode with no data migration on each ESXi host Disabling the vCLS retreat mode Exiting Maintenance Mode on each ESXi host using the vSphere Host Client.
A vSAN administrator needs to upgrade the vSAN cluster from vSAN 7.0 to 7.0 U1 without disruption. The following steps have been completed in this order:
1. Edited the vLCM image on the current cluster
2. Updated it to vSphere 7.0 U1
3. Changed the vendor addon
4. Selected the firmware bundle from the server vendor
5. Saved the configuration Remediate all nodes in the cluster. Roll back the vLCM configuration to the latest compliant image. Place all hosts in maintenance mode. Stage the upgrade images.
A vSAN administrator has a vSAN cluster that is using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vVLCM) to manage hypervisor, server drivers, and firmware. All hosts in the cluster are compliant according to the vLCM image.
A 10GB NIC on the servers is experiencing issues, the vSAN administrator determines a new network driver will resolve the problem. Unfortunately, the required NIC driver is a newer version compared to the driver provided by the most recent
Vendor Addon.
Which action should the vSAN administrator take to ensure the latest network driver is installed on the NIC before remediation? Add an individual component to the vLCM image that has the updated NIC driver. Since server vendors release periodic server Vendor Addon updates, make sure the vLCM image is configured to use the most recent version of the vendor addon. Modify the vLCM image to omit the NIC Driver, and then manually update the servers with the required NIC driver. Remove the Vendor Addon from the vLCM image, and then manually install the network driver on the servers.
A vSAN administrator wants to install a patch on an existing vSAN cluster. The environment runs vSphere 7.0, and the patch contains ESXi 7.0 Update 1c. The vSAN administrator will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to add the patch to the proper image and apply it to the vSAN cluster.
Which action should be performed before patching the ESXi hosts in the vSAN cluster? Upgrade the Platform Services Controller. Perform a disk format upgrade. Create a baseline instead of using images. Upgrade the vCenter Server.
A vSAN administrator was presented with 30 additional vSAN ReadyNodes to add to an existing vSAN cluster. There is only one administrator to complete this task.
What is the fastest approach? Use a Host Profile that was extracted from an existing host. Clone the ESXi boot partition to all new hosts, since the hardware is identical. Run vim-cmd to capture, and apply the configuration from an existing host. Launch Quickstart to Add Hosts to a vSAN Cluster.
A vSAN administrator has been asked to encrypt all traffic for data and metadata across all hosts in a vSAN cluster.
Which action is necessary to achieve this level of encryption? Enable vSAN Cluster level encryption via Storage Policy. No KMS is required. Enable vSAN Data In-Transit encryption at the cluster level. No KMS is required. Deploy KMS server, and enable vSAN Data at Rest encryption at the cluster level. Deploy KMS server, and enable vSAN Data at Rest and In-Transit encryption at the host level.
A vSAN storage policy with the 'Failures lo Tolerate" rule set to "2 failures - RA1D-1 {Mirroring)" is assigned to multiple virtual machines.
The vSAN administrator is considering assigning a new vSAN storage policy with the "Failures to Tolerate’ rule set lo "2 failures - RAID-6 (Erasure Coding)" to the virtual machines.
How will the capacity of the vSAN datastore be affected if this action is taken? Free capacity is permanently reduced after the Object Repair Timer expires. Additional capacity is permanently consumed by the erasure coded components. Used capacity will increase temporarily while the erasure coded components are built. Additional free capacity will be available for immediate use.
A storage administrator is facing degraded performance for the VMs running on a vSAN enabled vSphere Cluster and needs an out-of-the-box tool to identify the root cause of the problem.
Which tool should be used? top esxcli vmkfstools vsantop.
A vSAN administrator has recently upgraded to vSAN 7.0 U1. The vSAN administrator wants to control the amount of Capacity Reserve to use the underutilized capacity of -140TB in the cluster of 12 vSAN ReadyNodes & 400TB storage for vSAN internal operations.
Which two options should be used to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.) Slack Rebuild Reserve Buffer Reserve Capacity Plan Reserve Host Rebuild Reserve Operations Reserve.
A host in a vSAN cluster has the following VMware Compatibility Guide approved disks:
+ 3 Solid State Drive (SSD) used for cache
* 12 magnetic Hard Disk Drives (HDD) used for capacity
Which two options are valid disk group configurations? (Choose two.) 1 Disk Group with 2 SSD and 6 HDD 1 Disk Group with 3 SSD and 12 HDD 4 Disk Groups with 3 HDD each 2 Disk Groups with 1 SSD and 6 HDD each 3 Disk Groups with 1 SSD and 4 HDD each.
After merging the IT infrastructure of two enterprises, the vSAN administrator was tasked to add one ESXi host with no disks to one of the existing vSAN clusters.
Which two actions should the vSAN administrator take to complete this task? (Choose two.) This is only possible by presenting iSCSI shares from the existing vSAN cluster. Make sure the host has physical NICs with equal network throughput. This is only possible by adding a minimum of three ESXi hosts. Create a vSAN VMKernel interface on the new host. Create the required disk groups for the newly added host.
Which two conditions should be verified before removing an ESXi host from a vSAN cluster? (Choose two.) Resyncs are running Data evacuation is complete Performance Service is disabled Encryption is disabled ESXi host is in maintenance mode.
A vSAN administrator is tasked with changing the stripe width for a specific storage policy on a vSAN 7.0 GA cluster in order to improve performance, but the component distribution desired is across hosts, not just across a disk group.
Which action, if any, should the administrator take to complete this task? No action is needed. Upgrade vSAN to 7.0 Update 1. Enable vSAN Performance Services in order to increase the number of Stripes available across hosts. Change the default policy to force provisioning to spread components across hosts.
A site administrator has determined that the site needs to upgrade all vSAN clusters to 7.0 U1. The vSAN administrator wishes to complete the update in the shortest amount of time possible. All virtual machines are assigned a storage policy where the “Failures to tolerate” is set to one or higher.
Which strategy should be used to achieve this goal? Disable de-duplication and compression prior to the upgrade. Perform a complete update, omitting the on-disk format update. Select the "No data migration" maintenance mode option. Update only select, mission-critical clusters.
What are two prerequisites for using the TRIM and UNMAP capability of vSAN? (Choose two.) TRIM and UNMAP is enabled. The VM guest operating system supports ATA TRIM or SCSI UNMAP capability. The vSAN cluster is an all-flash architecture. Change the Object Space Reservation to 100. Deduplication and compression are enabled.
What os the maximum number of 2-node clusters that can share a vSAN Shared Witness host in vSAN 7.0 U1? 64 1 128 32.
An administrator is responsible for managing a 5-node vSAN 7.0 cluster that hosts 150 virtual machines. Each virtual machine belongs to one of the following vSAN Storage Policies:
vSAN Policy2:
Following an unplanned power event within the datacenter, the administrator has been alerted to the fact that one host has permanently failed. Prior to the vSAN host failure, the usable storage capacity of the vVSAN Cluster was more than 40%.
What will be the potential impact to any virtual machine that was running on the failed host using vSANPolicy2? vSAN will immediately start the recovery process. Each virtual machine will be restarted on another vSAN host using vSphere HA. After 60 minutes, vSAN will automatically start the recovery process. Each virtual machine will need to be restored from backup.
All of the virtual machines running on a hybrid vSAN datastore have this storage policy assigned:
Failures to Tolerate (FTT) rule is set to “2 Failures - RAID-1 (Mirroring)”.
The vSAN administrator needs to reduce the amount of vSAN datastore capacity the virtual machines will consume.
Which action should the vSAN administrator take to meet this goal? Change the FTT rule to “1 Failure - RAID-1 (Mirroring)”, and select “Now” for Reapply to VMs. Add the “Flash read cache reservation” rule to the storage policy, and set to 0%. Disable Operations reserve and Host rebuild reserve and click “Apply”. Modify the FTT rule to “2 Failures - RAID-5 (Erasure Coding)”.
A vSAN administrator wants to upgrade a 4-node vSAN Cluster from version 7.0 to the latest version available. The vSAN administrator would like to complete the upgrade as a single task, including firmware and drivers for its hardware.
Which action must the administrator take in order to be able to perform the upgrade? Configure vSphere Update Manager (VUM). Migrate the workloads to allow the firmware to be upgraded. Install the new VMware LCM tool. Use vLCM images within Lifecycle Manager in vCenter.
A financial institute deployed a vSAN Stretched Cluster to provide geographical resiliency. After a recent VWWAN outage, the institute decided to deploy a smaller warm site and use vSphere Replication to asynchronously replicate the data.
The environment has the following configurations:
* 1300 VMs
+ 300 TBs of storage
* RAID-5 vSAN storage policy
What is the minimum amount of vSphere Replication servers required to support the requirement? 1 3 10 7.
Which two requirements should the vSAN administrator consider in order to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.) A leaf spine topology is required for core redundancy and reduced latency. NIC teaming must be implemented for the vSAN network vmkernel port. The configuration must meet the same latency and bandwidth requirement as local vSAN. Encryption must be disabled prior to configuring HCl mesh. Either Layer 2 and Layer 3 communications can be used.
An administrator is tasked with configuring vSAN Cloud Native Storage.
Which two requirements must be met for a successful configuration? (Choose two.) vSAN iSCSI service enabled Minimum of vSphere 6.7 Update 3 or later Tanzu Enterprise License required Minimum of vSphere 7.0 Update 2 or later Compatible version of Kubernetes.
A vSAN administrator has three available racks and six vSAN hosts and needs to protect against a rack failure while maximizing resources.
Which two strategies should the vSAN administrator use to achieve this goal? (Choose two.) RAID-5/FTT=1 vSAN stretched cluster Specify fault domains RAID-6/FTT=2 2-node configuration.
Which Storage Policy Structure Rule is supported by vSAN Direct Datastore? Enable tag/capacity-based placement rules Enable host-based rules Enable rules for vSAN storage Enable storage performance-based rules.
An all-flash vSAN cluster contains four nodes.
Which two storage policies can the cluster satisfy? (Choose two.) FTT=2 (RAID-1 Mirroring) FTT=2 (RAID-6 Erasure Coding) FTT=1 (RAID-1 Mirroring) FTT=1 (RAID-5 Erasure Coding) FTT=3 (RAID-1 Mirroring).
What is the purpose of the TRIM/UNMAP process? Collects vSAN log files Deletes orphaned snapshots Reclaims disk space Repairs internal cache errors.
The administrator has successfully deployed a vSAN Stretched Cluster and needs to ensure that any virtual machines that are created are placed in the appropriate site.
Which two steps are needed to complete this task? (Choose two.) Put the VMs in a vSphere DRS group. Create a storage policy that includes site affinity rules and apply to VMs. Create a single VM/Host group across both sites. Create VM/Host groups for the two sites. Put the VMs in the correct VM group.
Skyline Health vVSAN HCL DB up-to-date health check is alerting in red in a newly deployed vCenter Server.
Which two options are the possible solutions for this problem? (Choose two.) Obtain the HCL DB offline bundle from vmware.com, and manually update it. Upgrade to the latest version of vCenter. Upgrade the HCL DB from the hardware vendor website. Obtain the HCL DB from the hardware vendor, and manually update it. Update the HCL DB online from vmware.com.
Which two actions are recommended when adding a host to a vSAN cluster? (Choose two.) Disable vSphere High Availability (HA). Create uniformly-configured hosts. Reference the VMware Compatibility Guide. Disable vSphere Cluster Services (VCLS). Disable vSAN performance service.
Which two considerations should an architect make when designing a HCl Mesh solution with VMware vSAN and VMware vSphere High Availability (HA)? (Choose two.) If vSphere HA is to work with HCl Mesh, Datastore with All Paths Down (APD) must be configured to Power off and restart VMs. If vSphere HA is to work with HCl Mesh, Datastore with Permanent Device Loss (PDL) must be configured to Power off and restart VMs. A minimum of three nodes are required within the client cluster for vSphere HA to work. A client cluster can mount up to ten remote datastores from one or more vSAN server clusters. A server vSAN cluster can serve its local datastore up to five client vSAN clusters.
An administrator will be performing a rolling upgrade of a vSAN cluster over the weekend. In preparation, the administrator runs the Data Migration Pre-Check.
Which two items are being checked? (Choose two.) vSphere HA state Object compliance and accessibility DRS settings Affinity rules Cluster capacity.
A vSAN administrator is deploying multiple 2-node clusters to remote branch offices. The nodes already have an old vSphere 7.0 image, but the administrator would like to update the image and ensure consistency across all the nodes.
The administrator configured vLCM on the first vVSAN cluster and exported the image.
Which format should the administrator choose? ISO Image TXT File ZIP File JSON File.
An application refactor requires significant storage that is being added for logs stored on a VM vDISK. The application VMs runs on a dedicated vSAN enabled vSphere Cluster with custom CPUs and RAM, and therefore, cannot vMotion to another
vSAN enabled cluster.
The administrator needs a vSAN feature that can be used to allocate additional storage from another vSAN enabled vSphere cluster to this vSAN enabled Cluster.
Which vSAN feature should be used for this purpose? vSAN Replication vSAN File Services vSAN HCI Mesh vSAN Stretched Clusters.
During yesterday's business hours, a cache drive failed on one of the vSAN nodes. The administrator reached out to the manufacturer and received a replacement drive the following day. When the drive failed, vSAN started a resync to ensure the health of data, and all objects are showing a healthy and compliant state. The vSAN administrator needs to replace the failed cache drive.
Which set of steps should the vSAN administrator take? Remove the existing vSAN disk group, and physically replace the device. Then, check to verity that the ESXi host automatically detects the new device. Afterwards, manually recreate the Disk Group. Physically replace the failed cache device, and vSAN will automatically create a new disk group. Then, remove the disk group with the failed device. Physically replace the failed cache device, and vSAN will automatically allocate the storage. Then, rebalance the cache layer. Place the disk group into maintenance mode, and select Full Data Migration. Then, physically replace the failed cache device. Afterwards. vSAN will rebuild the disk group automatically.
An administrator is tasked to create a Kerberos secured NFS v4.1 file share. Which information is minimally required during the configuration of the File Service? Active Directory Domain, Organizational Unit, User Account, Password Kerberos Server, User Account, Password Organizational Unit, User Account. Password Active Directory Domain, User Account, Password.
Which situation could cause a vSAN stretched cluster to fail? Blocked UDP ports on the firewall between data sites Static routes between the witness site and data sites Layer 3 communication from the data sites to the witness site 5ms round-trip lime (RTT) between data sites.
After a recent data loss event, the IT department plans to deploy a DR site using vSphere Replication with vSAN providing the storage backend.
The architect would like to know how many components will be created based on the following configuration:
How many components will be created? 32 24 16 8.
An administrator is preparing maintenance on a host in a vSAN cluster, and the maintenance is expected to take less than one hour. The administrator is considering using the "Full Data Migration" but understands that this can be time consuming and also has additional capacity and performance considerations.
Which action would alleviate these concerns? Use maintenance mode with "No Data Migration". Use maintenance mode with "Ensure Accessibility". Use maintenance mode with "Ensure Accessibly", and increase the vSAN object repair timer to more than one hour. Take an outage window when users are less likely to be working.
Which two storage policy types are used with the vSAN Data Persistence platform? (Choose two.) TKG extensions Harbor Registry Application name spaces Shared Nothing Architecture vSAN Direct Configuration.
vSAN requires that the virtual machines deployed on the vSAN datastores are assigned at least one storage policy, but the administrator did not explicitly assign a storage policy when provisioning the new VM.
What is the result of this situation? The VM provisioning will fail. The vSphere Web Client will choose the last vSAN Storage Policy used. The VM objects will be protected based on the vSAN Default Storage Policy configurations. No data protection will be applied to the VM objects.
After a recent security assessment, the security team recommended that vSAN encryption be enabled. The vSAN administrator will be adding a Key Management Server to vCenter.
What is a prerequisite to taking this action? IPv6 addressing Proxy server with username and password access Self-encryption drives Cryptographer ManageKeyServer permissions.
What does enabling vSAN operations reserve help ensure? Stores vSphere HA heartbeats Reconfigures data components Reserves space in case of single host failure Allocates capacity for vCLS.
The cluster level backend IOPS performance graph shows a higher-than-average number of IOPS for back-end storage.
What is a possible reason for this situation? Data synchronization is in progress. DRS is invoking multiple vMotion migrations. There is VM storage I/O traffic. Not enough capacity for slack space is on vSAN datastore.
What happens to a disk group during cache disk removal? It uses one of the capacity devices as cache. It uses the spare cache disk. It goes offline. It changes the on-disk format.
A new host with local storage devices has been added to a vSAN cluster. Now, the administrator would like to increase the capacity of the vSAN datastore.
What must be done to the new host to accomplish this goal? Configure a RAID set on the storage controller. Create one or more disk groups. Delete all existing partitions. Perform a storage device rescan.
A vSAN administrator has two identical VMware vSAN clusters, one for staging workloads and another for production workloads. Due to an unforeseen capacity requirement, the vSAN administrator is tasked with merging the staging vSAN cluster into the production.
Which two actions should the vSAN administrator perform on the staging cluster prior to moving the vSAN nodes to the production cluster? (Choose two.) Remove all capacity drives. Delete all Disk Groups. Enable File Services. Disable vSAN Services. Mark the disks for partial reservation.
A group of virtual machines have the vSAN Default Storage Policy assigned to them. This policy has not been modified from its default settings to date. The vSAN administrator would like to reduce the amount of storage capacity consumed by these virtual machines.
Which action will produce this result? Assign a new policy with "Failures to tolerate” set to "1-Failure - RAID-5 (Erasure Coding)" to the virtual machines. Assign a policy with "Object space reservation" set to "50%" to the virtual machines. Reduce the "Number of disk stripes per object" from 3 to 2 in the vSAN Default Storage Policy. Set "Failures to tolerate" in the vVSAN Default Storage Policy to "2-Failures - RAID-1 (Mirroring)".
An administrator needs an esxcli system command that will place a vSAN host into maintenance mode using the "Ensure Accessibility" option.
Which esxcli system command, if any, will work? There are no esxcli commands for Maintenance Mode. #esxcli system maintenanceMode set -enable true -m ensureObjectAccessibility #esxcli system MaintenanceMode set -enable true -e ensure ObjectAccessibility true #esxcli system maintenance Mode set -enable false -m ensureObjectAccessibility.
A vSAN administrator has been tasked with troubleshooting an application in a Hybrid vSAN environment. The application is I/O intensive, and the magnetic capacity devices may be playing a role in slow performance, so the administrator decides to take action to help resolve the problem.
Which action should the administrator take? Change the Default Storage Policy to have stripe width of 13. Modify the stripe width for the application on the advanced settings for the VM. Add more magnetic capacity devices in the affected host. Increase the stripe width based on the number of capacity devices within the disk group.
An administrator is deploying a new 2-node vSAN cluster with a shared witness to a remote location. Which requirement must be met? The ESXi host's controller cache and advanced features must be disabled. The ESXi host's drives must be configured in RAID 1 to support Failures to Tolerate of 1. The ESXi hosts must have SSDs or NVMe configured for Virtual Flash File System. The ESXi hosts must have a minimum of 64 GBs of memory.
A vSAN administrator is receiving complaints that applications are not performing as expected. The vSAN administrator opens the vSAN cluster performance charts to try to identify the issue, but the vSAN cluster performance charts are not available.
Which option should vSAN administrator enable to make these charts available? vSAN Performance Diagnostics vSAN Troubleshooting Diagnostics vSAN Performance Service vSAN Troubleshooting Service.
In vSAN 7.0 U1, when a host enters into maintenance mode (EMM) using the “Ensure Accessibility” option, it will allow vSAN to write to another host in addition to the host holding the object replica.
What does vSAN write to that additional host? A full replica and all incremental updates that happened once the host entered maintenance mode A full replica The stripe from the host entering maintenance mode All incremental updates that happened once the host entered maintenance mode.
What is the maximum time range that can be stored by the vSAN health check history? 30 days 60 days 180 days 7 days.
A host in the vSAN cluster is offline. As a result, there are several errors on the vCenter dashboard. In addition, the summary page of the VMs displays Noncompliant VM Storage Policies.
Which set of steps should the administrator take to repair the objects and bring the VMs back into compliance? Monitor -> vSAN -> Virtual Objects Monitor -> vSAN -> Physical Disks Monitor -> Triggered Alarms -> vSAN object alarms Monitor -> vSAN -> Skyline Health -> Data -> vSAN object health.
A vSAN administrator notices that the VMware Skyline Health: Network Latency Check reports indicate that three hosts are noncompliant.
Which action should the vSAN administrator take? Place the non-compliant hosts into an isolated network partition. Rerun the VMware Skyline Health: vSAN Cluster Partition report. Check VMKNICs, uplinks, physical switches, and associated settings. Immediately reboot the non-compliant hosts.
A remote location was configured with Cloud Native Storage. When the administrator put the host in maintenance mode to perform monthly patching, the File Server Health check was triggered.
Which action, if any, should the administrator take to resolve the issue? Click the Repair Objects Immediately button in the VMware Skyline Health Checks. Remove the host from maintenance mode, and put it back with Full Data Migration. It will resolve after 60 seconds, so no action is necessary. Modify the repair delay timer to 75.
A vSAN administrator has been provided hardware to create the vSAN infrastructure. AH six SSD devices per host are on the VMware HCL. The administrator wants to use the disk group configuration that would maximize the amount of vSAN cache available and help provide better storage performance for the new development workloads.
Which disk group configuration should be used? A single disk group with 6 disks in the configuration 3 disk groups with 2 disks in each disk group configuration 2 disk groups with 3 disks in each disk group configuration 6 disk groups with 1 disk in each disk group configuration.
A VMware vSAN administrator is configuring advanced monitoring with VMware vRealize Operations Manager and has the following requirement:
+ Ability to receive analytical information from the hard drive to determine a possible future failure of the hard drive.
What should be enabled for data collection when configuring the vSAN Adapter Instance? IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) DST (Disk Self-Test) SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) SSP (Storage Service Provider).
An administrator has successfully deployed a new 3-node vSAN Cluster. Prior to deploying any production workloads on to the new cluster, the administrator must complete a number of Service Validation and Testing (SVT) checks.
The final check requires the administrator to pull out a disk from one of the vSAN hosts.
Which two outcomes will occur within the vSAN cluster following this action? (Choose two.) By default. vSAN will delay the rebuilding of affected components for 60 minutes. All components on the device will be marked as absent. By default. vSAN will start the rebuilding of affected components immediately. By default vSAN will delay the rebuilding of affected components for 30 minutes. All components on the device will be marked as degraded.
An vSAN administrator is relying on vSAN Stretched Clusters to protect against entire-site failures. How is this protection accomplished? By configuring data locality By placing redundant components at both sites By synchronizing virtual machine data from the witness site
By using asynchronous data transfer.
A vSAN administrator is looking at adding a new vSAN cluster with hosts that have 512GB memory.
What is the minimum requirement for the node's flash boot device? 16GB 128GB 32GB 4GB.
An administrator has deployed a new vSAN cluster that contains eight hosts and needs to configure a storage policy for the currently deployed database virtual machines. The requirements state that if two hosts in the vSAN cluster fail, all virtual machines are unaffected.
Which RAID configuration must the administrator use in this storage policy to achieve the best performance for the database virtual machines? RAID-0 RAID-6 RAID-5 RAID-1.
An administrator has a 4-node vSAN cluster, and all virtual machine storage policies are configured as RAID-1 FTT-1. The administrator puts Host-1 in maintenance mode using "Ensure Accessibility".
During this time, Host-2, which is holding the updated object replica, fails permanently. A few moments later, Host-1 exits maintenance mode.
What happens to the writes that were committed on Host-2 after Host-1 enters this mode? Any writes to Host-2 that occurred after Host-1 entered maintenance mode are lost. The latest writes are retrieved from backups. The latest writes were also written on a third host and are applied to the stale components of Host-1 once the host exits maintenance mode. The latest writes from Host-2 are applied to the stale components of Host-1 once the host exits maintenance mode.
A vSAN administrator was examining the status of Virtual Objects and found inaccessible objects that are occupying significant storage capacity.
Refer to the exhibit:
Which action is needed to restore the storage capacity? Evacuate data on affected node by using the Full Data Migration mode. Identity and remove the obsolete object. Restart the host, and obsolete objects will be removed on their own. Trigger a manual resync, and allow vSAN to heal the object.
A vSAN administrator is investigating vSAN performance related problems but cannot find any vSAN performance statistics on the cluster summary page.
Why is this situation occurring? The administrator has read-only permissions on the cluster level. vSAN Performance service is not enabled. The vRealize Operations Manager is not integrated with vSAN cluster. vSAN statistics are only available via CLI.
A vSAN Administrator would like to save some space on workloads that do not take advantage of deduplication techniques by leveraging vSAN Compression only.
Which set of requirements should be met? vSAN Deduplication and Compression must be enabled together, have vSAN version 6.6 or later, and have at least vSAN Enterprise license. vSAN cluster must be at version 7.0 U1 or later and have at least vSAN Advanced license in order to enable Compression only. vSAN Compression only feature is only available with VMC on AWS, so use VMware HCX to migrate such workloads to VMC on AWS. vSAN cluster must be at version 7.0 U2 or later and have at least vSAN Standard license in order to enable Compression only.
Which VM file type resides in the VM home namespace object on a vSAN datastore? vmem vmx vswp vmsn.
While preparing to update a vSAN cluster, an administrator finds that the firmware revision of the onboard storage controllers is no longer listed as supported in the Hardware Compatibility Guide, but new firmware is available.
Which action should the administrator take upon discovering this piece of information? Revert the cluster's on-disk format to the previous version. Replace all storage controller hardware. Configure additional external storage resources. Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update the controller firmware.
A customer is running a number of compute-intensive application workloads on their existing 4-node vSAN cluster that has resulted in resource contention. To provide additional compute resources, the vSAN administrator has decided to deploy a new 4-node vSAN compute-only cluster so that a HCl Mesh can be configured.
Which three points would the vSAN administrator need to consider before using this configuration? (Choose three.) The storage policy must be based on the number of hosts within the client cluster. The storage policy is based on the total number of hosts across both client and server clusters. A storage policy of Erasure Coding with FTT=2 would be supported. A storage policy of Mirroring with FIT 1 would be supported. A storage policy of Erasure Coding with hi 1=1 would be supported. The storage policy must be based on the number of hosts within the server cluster.
Which solution provides disaster recovery orchestration for workloads on a vSAN stretched cluster to a third site? vRealize Automation vSphere Replication Site Recovery Manager Array-based Replication.
An administrator is responsible for managing a 5-node vSAN 7.0 cluster. The vSAN Cluster is configured with both vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). The vSAN Cluster is currently hosting 150 virtual machines that have consumed 60% of the usable capacity.
Each virtual machine belongs to one of the following vSAN Storage Policies:
vSANPolicy1:
+ Site Disaster Tolerance: None
* Failures to Tolerate: 1 failure - RAIDS (Erasure Coding)
vSANPolicy2:
+ Site Disaster Tolerance: None
* Failures to Tolerate: No data redundancy
Following an unplanned power event within the data center, the administrator has been alerted to the fact that one host has
permanently failed.
What will be the impact to any virtual machine that was running on the failed host using vSANPolicy1? Each virtual machine must be restored from backup. vSAN will defer the start of the recovery process for 60 minutes, and the virtual machines will not power on until the recovery process has been completed. Each virtual machine will be unavailable for up to 90 minutes while the automatic recovery process completes. Each virtual machine will be restarted on another vSAN host using vSphere HA.
An administrator is tasked with upgrading a network isolated vSAN Cluster to the latest version available to take advantage of the new features and performance improvements.
Which two actions should the administrator take first? (Choose two.) Disable the vSphere DRS and vSphere HA in order to avoid VMs and data from moving among the nodes during the vSAN upgrade process. Put the host in maintenance mode with "Ensure Accessibility". Verify if there is enough cache devices and cache space on the hosts before proceeding with the software updates. Login on MyVMware, and download the vSphere and vSAN software bundles. Verify the supportability of the software, hardware, drivers, firmware, and storage I/O controllers on the VMware Compatibility Guide.
After a server power failure, the administrator noticed the scheduled resyncing in the cluster monitor displays objects to be resynchronized under the pending category.
What are these objects in this category? These objects belong to virtual machines, which are powered off. Object resynchronization must be started manually. There are too may objects to be synchronized. The delay timer has not expired.
A vSAN administrator would like to configure Cloud Native Storage with File Volumes with vSAN 7.0. Which two requirements must be met? (Choose two.) Use a compatible version of CSI driver. vSAN Cloud Native Storage is only available with RDMA-based networking. Enable and configure vSAN File Services on the vSAN cluster. The vSAN cluster must be connected to an external NFS storage to provide File Volume services. The cluster must have a vSAN on-disk format version 5 for Cloud Native Storage to be available.
What are two purposes of a vSAN storage policy (Choose two.) To determine vSAN encryption level To enable TRIM/UNMAP To define how the VM storage objects are provisioned To guarantee the required level of service To enable deduplication and compression.
A vSAN administrator has recently upgraded a vSAN cluster to 7.0 U1 and has enabled Capacity Reserve features to reduce the amount of capacity reserved for transient and rebuild operations. The physical disk has reached an 80% full reactive rebalance threshold. The used space on vSAN datastore exceeds the suggested slack rebuild threshold. The used space on vSAN datastore exceeds the suggested host rebuild threshold. Underutilized space is above 25-30% of the total capacity threshold.
A vSAN administrator is implementing deduplication and compression on a vSAN all-flash cluster but wants the VMs to remain operational. The details are as follows:
Which action should the vSAN administrator take to meet this goal? Use explicit fault domains. Enable TRIM/UNMAP. Change the existing VM storage policy to RAID-6. Use the Allow Reduced Redundancy option.
A new vSAN Cluster with four hosts has to be designed for a single site architecture.
Which design decision is correct? All the data must remain accessible even with two host failures. Configure the storage controllers to use RAID. Use block-based storage for the newvSAN cluster. Only hardware listed on the VMware Compatibility Guide will be deployed.
The DevOps team of an organization wants to deploy their new cloud native application with persistent storage on a dedicated vSAN cluster. The storage administrator is tasked to configure the vSAN cluster and leverage the vSAN Direct feature.
Which two requirements must the administrator meet to complete this task? (Choose two.) Unclaimed disks in the hosts for vSAN Direct A dedicated network for vSAN Direct A valid vSAN license for the vSAN cluster An integration with vSAN File Services vSphere HA enabled on the vSAN cluster.
A large enterprise has a main campus with two 8-Node vSAN 7.0 U1 clusters and 50 remote sites, each containing one 2- Node cluster. An administrator configures a vLCM desired image for lifecycle management, and vLCM had determined that all the clusters are in need of remediation.
How would vLCM enhance the remediation operation in this situation? The administrator can remediate all remote sites and the main campus concurrently. When the administrator selects remediate, vLCM will non-disruptively remediate one server at a time until all clusters are complete. The administrator should remediate the main campus using vSphere Update Manager (VUM) and the 50 remote sites using VLCM. vLCM cannot remediate the clusters concurrently, so the administrator must complete the sites one-by-one in a parallel manner.
A vSAN administrator is tasked to perform an upgrade of a vSAN cluster from 7.0 to 7.0 U2, including firmware and drivers for its hardware. The vSAN administrator already created an image using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).
Prior to selecting Start Remediation, which step should be taken to upgrade the complete vSAN cluster as a single task? Select Remediate All through vLCM to upgrade all hosts in the cluster. Manually remediate one host at a time in the vSAN cluster. Place all hosts in the vSAN cluster into Maintenance Mode. Stage the upgrade of the vSAN cluster through vLCM.
What is the default health check interval for the vSAN Health services? Every 60 minutes Every 24 hours Every 10 seconds Every 10 minutes.
An organization wants to configure a new storage policy based on the following requirements:
The administrator creates the policy using storage policy based management and assigns it to a 100GB virtual machine on a 4-node vSAN cluster to test the results of the new storage policy.
How many components will be created per host for the storage objects of the virtual machine on the vSAN datastore? 2 1 8 32.
A vSAN administrator is configuring a vSAN Stretched Cluster and needs to add the vSAN Witness Appliance to the cluster as a host.
What are two ways the administrator can complete this task? (Choose two.) Deploy and configure the vSAN Witness Appliance OVA. Add the vSAN Witness Appliance ESXi host to the vCenter Server. Deploy and configure the vSAN Witness Appliance per site, and then add each to its respective cluster. Deploy and configure the vSAN Witness Appliance from the vSAN Cluster settings. Add the vSAN Witness Appliance ESXi host to the vSAN cluster.
A single disk in a vSAN disk group suffers from an unrecoverable hardware failure. This causes vSAN to set the health status for all disks in the group to Permanent disk loss, indicating disk failure. All other disks, however, have not suffered from a hardware failure.
Why would vSAN mark all disks in this manner? The vSAN disk management service has failed. The key management server is offline. Deduplication and compression are enabled. The affected vSAN node is offline.
A vSAN administrator is looking forward to managing hypervisor, server drivers, and firmware all in one cluster image using vLCM. The vSAN administrator edits the desired Image and selects the desired ESXi version and Vendor Addon but is unable to add any firmware.
Why is there no firmware available to add to the image? All hosts in the cluster have the most current firmware installed already, and as a result, vLCM has no firmware to add to the image. The vCenter server version is older than 7.0, and as a result, vLCM does not support firmware addons. In order for firmware addons to be available, the administrator must first deploy the server vendor Hardware Support Manager The hosts listed in the cluster is managed by a vSphere Update Manager, so firmware updates are not possible.
What should be used to verify object resynchronization progress and impact after a global policy change? HCI Bench vCenter HTMLS client vRealize Log Insight vRealize Network Insight.
An administrator enabled vSAN and then enabled vSphere HA on the same cluster. Over which network will vSphere HA traverse? Both vSAN and management network Provisioning network Default management network vSAN network.
A vSAN administrator is planning to deploy a new vSAN cluster with these requirements:
* Physical adapters share capacity among several traffic types
* Guaranteed bandwidth for vSAN during bandwidth contention
* Enhanced security
Which two actions should be taken to configure the new vSAN cluster to meet these requirements? (Choose two.) Enable jumbo frames Utilize Network I/O Control Create static routes between the vSAN hosts Use IOPS Limit rules in storage policies Isolate vSAN traffic in a VLAN.
A large financial company has an existing vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster containing production virtual machines and the vCenter Server. The cluster needs to be physically moved to another location within the datacenter to allow new racks to be installed, so the platform needs to be powered down.
Which action should the vSAN administrator take to perform this procedure safely? Enter Maintenance Mode with No data migration Enter vSAN Enhanced durability mode Enter Maintenance Mode with Ensure accessibility option Enter Maintenance Mode with Full data migration.
A vSAN administrator is noticing that the objects resynchronizing in the cluster are taking longer than expected and wants to view the resynchronizing metrics.
Which performance category should the vSAN administrator open? Backend Resync Latency Host Network Disks.
A single capacity disk fails within a vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster running with a “compression-only” configuration enabled. The vSAN administrator must recognize the platform impact that has occurred and take steps to correct it.
Which action should the vSAN administrator take? The hardware failure will impact the entire disk group, so the vSAN administrator will need to remove and recreate the disk group following the replacement of the failed storage device. The hardware failure will stop the running workloads, so the vSAN administrator will need to disable the compression-only configuration, replace the failed capacity device, and then re-create the disk group. The hardware failure will impact all disk groups within the ESXi host, so the vSAN administrator will need to manually remove the ESXi node from the vSAN Cluster, replace the failed capacity device, and then re-create the disk group. The hardware failure will only impact the specific capacity disk, so the vSAN administrator will need to remove and replace the failed capacity device.
Which two tools should be used to identify vSAN unassociated objects? (Choose two.) PowerCLI RVC esxcfg esxcli vsantop.
An administrator wants to check the vSAN cluster health during the maintenance window while vCenter Server is offline.
What are two ways to complete this task? (Choose two.) HCIBench ESXi system logs on vSAN datastore esxcli vSphere Host Client esxtop.
An administrator needs to design a new vSAN cluster to host production mission critical workloads. Which three topics would impact this design? (Choose three.) The amount of ESXi host memory Effective vSAN datastore capacity The amount of virtual Disks per VM The size of the cache tier according to workload characteristics The supported CPU type of the ESXi host Usage of vSphere DRS.
An administrator has deployed a dedicated VMware vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster that will be used to provide developers with access to an environment that is running VMware with Tanzu workloads only.
Which vSAN feature should be configured for vSAN Data Persistence platform (vDPp)? vSAN Cloud Native Storage vSAN with Shared Nothing Architecture (SNA) vSAN Direct vSAN File Services.
A newly deployed vSAN cluster runs vSAN 7.0, and the vSAN cluster needs an integration with a third-party software solution. The software solution provides full app-level redundancy, and it runs on the vSAN Data Persistence platform.
The administrator configures vSAN Direct Configuration to integrate the third-party storage with vSAN and now needs to configure a storage policy to make sure the vSAN Direct storage is used by the vSAN Data Persistence platform third-party software solution.
Which type of storage policy configuration should the administrator use? A storage policy with tag or capability-based rules for vSAN Direct A storage policy with capability-based rules for third-party storage A vSAN shared nothing policy with no data redundancy (FTT=0) A vSAN storage policy with one failure to tolerate (N 1=1).
An administrator wishes to prevent vCenter notifications of vSAN Health status during a scheduled maintenance window.
Which action can be taken to achieve this goal? Silence the alert from the HTML client.
Disable the performance service. Disable SNMP service. Run performance diagnostics prior to scheduled maintenance.
The Resyncing Objects view in the vCenter Ul reports that some objects are currently resyncing.
Which two actions would cause this situation? (Choose two.) DRS is relocating VMs between vSAN nodes. HA Virtual Machine Monitoring forced a VM to reboot. A host failure occurs in the cluster. A change to the storage policy is applied to the objects. A VM snapshot is being deleted.
A vSAN administrator has deployed a new All-Flash vSAN cluster and would like to perform a health test on it to verify that the network performance is meeting the network throughput requirements.
Which tool should be used for this purpose? vSAN Cluster Performance vSAN Proactive Test vSAN Skyline IOInsight.
An administrator is enabling vSphere HA and vSAN on the same cluster and needs to use a configuration that is valid for vSphere HA Heartbeat datastore.
Which configuration should be used? A datastore mounted to more than one host, as well as any vSAN datastore Any datastore mounted to more than one host Any datastore mounted to more than one host, but not a vSAN datastore vSAN datastore as vSphere HA Heartbeat datastore.
An administrator must choose between deploying a virtual witness or physical witness for a vSAN Stretched Cluster. The administrator eventually decides to use a virtual witness.
What is a benefit of selecting this approach? Reduced vSphere licensing Additional compute capacity for running VMs Shared metadata between separate clusters Increased vSAN datastore capacity.
Which two storage policy changes result in a component resync? (Choose two.) Changing object space reservation to 100 Changing the failure tolerance method Disabling object checksum (from checksum enabled) Adding an IOPS Limit rule to a storage policy Enabling object checksum (from checksum disabled).
In a 2-node vSAN cluster, one node has recovered from failure with FTT=1 and RAID-1 storage policy.
Refer to the exhibit:
What is the total VMDK storage consumed? 150GB 100GB 133GB 200GB.
A vSAN administrator is troubleshooting poor performance of vSAN cluster while vCenter is not available. The vSAN administrator decides to use a command line tool to monitor real-time vSAN IOPS, throughput, and other metrics on ESXi host.
Which command line tool should be used? vimtop esxcli esxcfg vsantop.
An administrator has deployed a development VMware vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster. It will be used by the development teams to deploy a mixture of cloud-native stateful applications alongside a combination virtual machine and Kubernetes workloads.
Which vSAN feature should be configured for the vSAN Data Persistence platform (vDPp)? vSAN Cloud Native Storage vSAN File Services vSAN with Shared Nothing Architecture (SNA) vSAN Direct.
An enterprise company is carrying out a planned yearly power test on specific platforms, and the infrastructure administrator has been asked to power down a vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster containing production virtual machines. The management workloads, such as the vCenter Server, are running on a different platform.
Which action should the vSAN administrator take to ensure it is safe to complete this task? Enter Maintenance Mode with Full data migration Review the vSAN proactive tests results from the vSphere client Review Data Migration Pre-Check results from the vSphere client Enter Maintenance Mode with ensure accessibility option.
An existing vSAN cluster has this specification:
The CTO would like to provision new applications, and these will need more capacity and performance.
Which two methods may be used by the vSAN administrator to meet this goal? (Choose two.) Adding faster cache devices Adding one more disk group per host with the same configuration Replacing all cache devices by a larger device Adding an ESXi host with identical device configuration Replacing all capacity devices by a larger device.
A host in the cluster experiences a permanent NIC failure, and the replacement part will not arrive until the next morning.
The administrator needs to ensure the availability of the production workload at all times.
Which step should be taken by the administrator to meet this goal? Shut down the production VMs. Perform a live vMotion to another host. Disable the vSAN Service on the VMkernel port. Enter Maintenance Mode with 'Full Data Migration’.
What are two characteristics of the vSAN Data-At-Rest Encryption (DARE)? (Choose two.) lt requires Self-Encrypting Drives in order to work. It needs to be enabled together with the vSAN Data-In-Transit encryption. It is not supported on Stretched Cluster environments. It is Software Defined and works independently of the Cache or Capacity drives installed on the Nodes. It continues to operate unaffected during downtime on vCenter Server.
An organization is facing vSAN storage capacity challenges on one of their vSAN enabled clusters, while other vSAN enabled clusters are underutilized. The current vVSAN version is 7.0 U1.
Which vSAN feature should be used to resolve this challenge in the quickest way? vSAN HCI Mesh vSAN Replication vSAN Stretched Clusters vSAN Datastore(s).
Which option, if any, is the default option to enable Maintenance Mode on a vSAN host? Ensure accessibility. No data migration. Full data migration. There is no default option. The administrator must select an option.
A business unit requires proprietary data to be protected against a site failure while using the least amount of storage and the least amount of nodes. AN administrator plans to implement a vSAN Stretched Cluster with a RAID-5 policy.
What is the minimum number of data nodes across all sites in this vSAN Stretched Cluster configuration? 4 8 12 6.
An administrator is responsible for managing an All-Flash vSAN Cluster. The vSAN cluster is configured with two identical vSAN Disk Groups. Neither deduplication nor compression is enabled. The workloads on the vSAN Cluster have consumed 40% of the usable capacity.
Which statement describes the impact to the vSAN cluster if a single cache disk fails within one of the vSAN hosts? The Disk Group will be marked as degraded, and all components will be rebuilt on any remaining Disk Groups. The Cache Disk will be marked as failed, and the Ensure Accessibility option will be required before any components are rebuilt. The Cache Disk will be marked as degraded, and all components will be rebuilt on another Cache Disk. The Disk Group will be marked as failed, and all components will be rebuilt on any remaining Disk Groups.
A vSAN cluster has the following configuration:
* 4 hosts with 1 disk group per host
* Each disk group contains 1 cache device and 7 capacity devices
What are two ways to increase the vSAN datastore storage capacity? (Choose two.) Add a capacity drive to each disk group. Replace a cache device with a larger cache device. Add a disk group to each host. Add a cache device to each disk group. Add a host to the cluster.
A vSAN administrator wishes to implement HCI mesh between two clusters that are located in geographically separate data centers.
Which recommendation should the vSAN administrator make for this configuration? A leaf spine topology is required for core redundancy and reduced latency. vSAN encryption must be disabled prior to configuring HCl mesh. NIC teaming must be implemented for the vSAN network VMkernel port. Both Layer 2 and Layer 3 communications are supported.
A vSAN Administrator has a cluster of six vVSAN nodes. The vSAN datastore was 55% utilized, and due to a power outage, one node was lost. The vSAN administrator needs to resolve the storage policy compliance for the virtual machines on RAID-5.
Which action, if any, needs to be taken to meet this goal? No action is needed since vSAN automatically rebuilds the objects. The one failed node must be restored. Trigger vSAN object repair from ESXCLI. Change the RAID-5 FTT from 2 to 1.
A vSAN administrator has been tasked to add capacity to an existing vSAN cluster and has ordered enough larger capacity devices to complete this work. Tests have been executed, and the replacement from one single capacity device will require 70 minutes.
Which two approaches can the vSAN administrator use to complete this task? (Choose two.) Confirm with pre-check that enough capacity for data migration is available, select a capacity device, click "remove disk" with "Ensure accessibility", replace capacity device, claim unused device, and then repeat one-by-one. "Change object repair timer to 75 minutes", "set capacity device to offline", and then replace capacity device one-by-one. Enter Maintenance Mode, confirm that pre check is fine, select "Full data migration”, "Shutdown ESXi host", replace all capacity devices, "Restart ESXi host", replace capacity devices in disk groups, exit Maintenance Mode, confirm that raw capacity has been increased, and then repeat on ESXi host one-by-one. "Shutdown ESXi host", and replace all capacity devices. Repeat this sequence one-by-one. Execute a "Data Migration Pre-Check", enter Maintenance Mode with default setting, "Shutdown ESXi host", replace all capacity devices, and then repeat on ESXi hosts one-by-one.
What is the purpose of host rebuild reserve in vSAN? Reserves space in case of single host failure Allocated capacity for vCLS Reconfigures data components Stores vSphere HA heartbeats.
A vSAN administrator observes that the VMware Skyline Health: Time Synchronization displays one host that is noncompliant.
What is the meaning of this message? The vSAN administrator must review the NTP server configuration on vCenter Server and the ESXi hosts. The vSAN administrator must put the noncompliant host into maintenance mode. The value of the CLOMRepairDelay parameter is incorrect. The noncompliant host cannot communicate with vCenter.
Which state is NOT a compliance status of a VM Storage Policy? Compliant Noncompliant Stale Not Applicable.
A vSAN administrator notices the VMware Skyline Health: Network Latency Check reports indicate three hosts are non-compliant.
Which action should the vSAN administrator take? Reboot the noncompliant hosts one at a time. Rerun the VMware Skyline Health: vSAN Cluster Partition report. Place the noncompliant hosts into an isolated network. Check VMKNICs, uplinks. VLANs. physical switches, and associated settings.
An administrator wants to configure a vVSAN Direct Configuration for an existing vSAN cluster. The cluster has six hosts with three disk groups each. All disk groups have claimed the maximum amount of disks in the hosts.
Which action should the administrator take first to complete this configuration with the least amount of administrative effort? Adding more disks to the disk groups Creating a disk group from Disk Management Claiming unused disks from Disk Management Deleting one disk group from each host and evacuating data.
Which tool should be used to identify vSAN unassociated objects? vSphere Host Client vSphere CLI vsantop PowerCLI.
A vSAN administrator, who has a cluster that has both compute-only and vSAN ReadyNodes, recently received a request to deploy a new application with higher storage performance requirements than what are currently available.
What are two ways the administrator can reconfigure the vSAN cluster to obtain this additional performance? (Choose two.) Add additional hosts, with capacity devices only, and then stream the cache from the other hosts. Add cache and capacity devices to the compute-only hosts. Add additional cache and capacity devices to the existing data nodes. Add additional compute-only hosts from the vSAN cluster. Add to the existing disk groups two cache devices and the eight capacity devices.
A currently-deployed vSAN cluster must deliver persistent storage to be used by vSphere with Tanzu. The administrator needs to properly configure the vSAN Direct Configuration for this solution.
Which three steps should be taken? (Choose three.) Configure vSAN File Services for vSAN Direct. Assign the storage policy to the container VMs. Create a storage policy for vSAN Direct. Create a vSAN storage policy with FTT=0. Assign the storage policy to the namespace. Claim unused disks for vSAN Direct.
When attempting to add a directly attached disk device to a host disk group, the intended disk does not show among the available devices in disk management.
Which action should be taken? Delete all device partitions Create a 1GB metadata partition Format the existing partition Create a VMFS partition.
A 5-node vSAN cluster contains multiple virtual machines, and a vSAN storage policy with the rule “Failures to tolerate” set to “1 failure - RAID-5 (Erasure Coding)” is assigned. A vSAN administrator has changed the rile in the assigned policy to “2 failures - RAID-6 (Erasure Coding)”.
What is the result of this change? Changes are queued for 60 minutes. The policy change is rejected immediately. The updated policy is serially applied to the virtual machines. No changes occur until the policy is reapplied.
Which solution can automate the deployment of a vVSAN cluster as part of a full Software-Defined Datacenter? VMware Cloud Foundation vSphere Replication vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VMware Cloud Director.
An administrator has been tasked with upgrading existing vVSAN hosts with multiple SSD cache devices per host to NVMe devices (hot plug).
Which fact should guide the administrator's action? The disk group does not need to be removed before adding new cache. The cache disk drives must have a larger capacity. The host must be removed from vSAN cluster before changing cache devices. The disk group must be deleted on each physical host in the cluster to use the NVMe device.
A vSphere administrator wants to use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to manage a vSAN cluster with one desired image. When creating the new cluster, the administrator chooses “Manage all hosts in the cluster with a single image”.
Which option is NOT available when setting up the cluster image? Import image from new host Import image from an existing host in the vCenter inventory Import baseline from vSphere Lifecycle Manager Compose a new image.
An Application Clustering Solution requires an in-guest attachable LUN which can be shared across two different VMs.
Which vSAN feature can meet this requirement? vSAN Data Persistence vSAN iSCSI Target Service vSAN HCI Mesh vSAN Datastore Sharing.
An administrator has discovered that space utilized by VMs does not decrease after deleting files and folders within the VMs. The administrator needs to be able to reclaim this space.
Which action could the administrator take to accomplish this task? Disable Storage 1/0 Control for the vSAN cluster. Reboot the VM to recreate the swap file. Set the Object Space Reservation rule to 100%. Enable TRIM/UN MAP for the vSAN cluster.
A vSAN administrator needs to find the metrics for objects containing data served up by the vSAN iSCSI service.
On which level should the vSAN administrator look? Cluster Virtual Machine vCenter Server vSAN iSCSI Object.
A vSAN administrator observes that the VMware Skyline Health: Disk Format Version reports a format version that is lower than the expected version.
What does this status mean? The vSAN administrator must enable encryption for the vSAN datastore. The vSAN administrator must perform an immediate upgrade of the on-disk format. A vSAN on-disk format upgrade is recommended. Deduplication and compression must be disabled for the vSAN datastore.
A vSAN administrator is deploying a four node vSAN cluster to a new work location. To help with configuration and consistency, the vSAN administrator plans to use Ouickstart
Which two prerequisites must be met prior to taking this action? (Choose two.) vDS must be created tor vSAN and management traffic. DRS and HA have been enabled. vCenter is running on one of the four nodes. Hosts are running 6.0 U2 or later. Hosts do not have existing vSAN or network configurations.
The objects on a 4-node vSAN cluster are assigned a RAID-5 policy. A network outage occurs, causing host one to lose connectivity with the rest of the cluster. Seventy-five minutes have elapsed.
What is the health state of the objects? Reduced availability with no rebuild Non-availability related incompliance (non-compliance) Reduced availability Reduced availability with no rebuild - delay timer.
A vSAN administrator is using the vSAN ReadyNode Sizer to build a new environment. While entering the cluster configurations, a fellow colleagues inquire about the Operations Reserve option.
What is the purpose of using this option? Configures space for external operations Provides space for internal operations Reserves space for tolerating failures Allocates space for vSAN upgrades.
A 100GB virtual disk object has this storage policy assigned to it:
What is the maximum amount of raw vSAN storage capacity consumed by this virtual disk? 200GB 100GB 300GB 600GB.
Which two characteristics are associated with vSAN Data-In-Transit Encryption? (Choose two.) Uses AES-256 bit encryption Requires an external KMS in order to work Needs specific configuration on the Network switches in order to be enabled Can be enabled independently of the vSAN Data-At-Rest encryption Needs to be enabled using vSAN Storage Policies.
A vSAN administrator of a network isolated vVSAN environment wants to upgrade the environment from the vSAN 7.0 to the vSAN 7.0 U1 using vLCM.
Which option, if any, should be used as a depot in this case? Configure the vSphere Lifecycle Manager to download the updates from an Online Depot. Itis not possible to use the vSphere Lifecycle Manager on a network isolated environment. Configure the vSphere Lifecycle Manager to download updates from a local UMDS-shared repository. Configure the vSphere Lifecycle Manager to download the updates from the VMware Depot using HTTPS.
A vSAN architect is using the vSAN Sizer to build an All-Flash vSAN cluster for an accounting company. The architect is trying to determine why 12 TBs are set aside for system overhead and is reviewing the items that are include in the overhead capacity.
Which two items are included? (Choose two.) VM swap overhead Encryption overhead Disk Format overhead Host upgrade overhead File System overhead.
A vSAN administrator has been asked to increase the usable storage capacity of an existing vSAN cluster to deploy some new virtual machines containing a large amount of data. The details are as follows:
* Each ESXi host in the vSAN cluster is configured with two disk groups.
* Each disk group contains three capacity devices and one cache device.
* Deduplication and compression are not enabled.
* Only the default VM storage policy is in use and had not been changed.
* Add capacity without re-creating disk groups.
The company would like to minimize the number of devices used for cost Optimization.
Which action should the vSAN administrator carry out to provide additional storage to the vSAN cluster? Changing object space reservation on the default storage policy to 100 Adding new capacity devices to the existing disk groups Deleting and recreating the current disk groups with a larger disk configuration Creating a third disk group on each host.
A vSAN administrator has reported a security vulnerability to the security officer of the organization. Currently, the vSAN cluster runs on vSAN 7.0. The administrator suggests patching the vSAN cluster and gets approval from the security officer to apply the latest patch for vSAN.
The administrator uses vSphere Lifecycle Manager to apply the patch to the current image. The organization requirements state that patches should be installed as fast as possible on the hosts.
Which configuration should the administrator apply to complete this installation? Enable the quick boot feature in the host remediation settings for the baselines. Disable the hardware compatibility check in the host remediation settings for the images. Enable the quick boot setting in the host remediation settings for the images. Disable HA admission control in the host remediation settings for the baselines.
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