What is the maximum number of racks supported when expanding a VxRail cluster beyond a single physical rack?
- A . 2
- B . 4
- C . 6
- D . 8
What is the correct order of steps to create a VM for a new project using vSAN and VxRail?
How many Failures to Tolerate can be configured with vSAN RAID-1?
- A . 0
- B . 1 only
- C . 1 or 2 only
- D . 1, 2, or 3
A VxRail administrator wants to rename the VxRail cluster and the VxRail vSAN datastore.
What is the recommended method to make these changes?
- A . Refer to the VMvvare vSphere and vSAN documentation Follow the steps detailed in the VMware documentation
- B . Renaming the objects is not permitted Rebuild the cluster with the desired names
- C . Use SolVe to generate the relevant procedures Follow the steps detailed in the procedures
- D . Refer to the VxRail Appliance Administration Guide Follow the steps detailed in the guide
A VxRail administrator observes alarms that start with VXR in the vSphere client.
How can they obtain information about the alarms and the related knowledge base articles?
- A . Go to the Alarm Definitions page and click the KB link.
- B . Use the VxRail Event Code Reference.
- C . Use the VxRail Administration Guide.
- D . Consult the General VMware Knowledge Base.
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for a software-defined data center.
Which layers are part of the stack?
- A . Storage, security, and management
- B . Security, management, and network
- C . Network, storage, and security
- D . Management, network, and storage
A VxRail administrator wants to determine how long the rebuild will take after experiencing a disk failure in the vSAN Cluster.
Where is this information located in the vSphere Client?
- A . Configure > vSAN > Services > Object repair timer
- B . Monitor > vSAN > Resyncing Objects
- C . Monitor > vSAN > Data Migration Pre-Check
- D . Configure > vSAN > Disk Management
What is the correct path for editing the Object Repair Time from the vCenter client?
- A . Host > Monitor > vSAN > Services > Object Repair Timer (Repeat for each host)
- B . Cluster > Monitor > vSAN > Services > Object Repair Timer
- C . Cluster > Configure > vSAN > Services > Advanced Options > Edit
- D . Host > Configure > vSAN > Services > Advanced Options > Edit (Repeat for each host)
Where in the VxRail Plugin can log bundles be generated?
- A . Monitor > VxRail > Issues and alarms
- B . Configure > VxRail >Troubleshooting
- C . Monitor > VxRail > Security
- D . Configure > VxRail > Support
A customer has a large storage capacity and low I/O performance requirements.
Which VxRail solution is the best fit?
- A . E Series
- B . P Series
- C . S Series
- D . V Series
What is true about Multitrack VxRail cluster expansion?
- A . All VxRail networks are routable by default
- B . VxRail nodes in the same cluster within a rack can be on different subnets
- C . VxRail cluster can be expanded up to a maximum of 4 racks
- D . VxRail System VMs run on the nodes in the first rack
An administrator wants to perform maintenance on a VxRail system.
Which configuration should be used for the VxRail Cluster Health Monitoring before starting the maintenance activity?
- A . Maintenance mode
- B . Disabled
- C . Enabled
- D . Suspended
Using VxRail Manager, what information can you find under the physical health view?
- A . Model, Temperature, Memory, and Health State
- B . Cluster ID, PSNT, Model, and Temperature
- C . PSNT, Operational Status, Health State, and Memory
- D . Cluster ID, Connected, Health State, and Operational Status
When configuring Data at Rest Encryption (DARE) on a vSAN cluster, what is required?
- A . vSAN Standard
- B . vSAN Advanced
- C . External Key Management Server
- D . Internal Key Management Server
What VxRail Manager activities can be performed by a user with the VMware Administrator role?
- A . Build, Manage, Expand, and Shutdown Cluster only
- B . Build, Manage, and Expand Cluster Manage HA, DRS, and vSAN settings
- C . Build, Manage, and Expand Cluster only
- D . Build, Manage, and Shutdown Cluster Manage vSAN settings
The vSphere Client is showing several failures on node 3. Support recommends opening an SSH session to troubleshoot. The connection fails to establish.
Which path should be used to enable SSH on the host from vSphere Client?
- A . Host > Configure > VxRail > Enable SSH
- B . Cluster > Configure > VxRail > Hosts > Enable SSH
- C . Cluster > Monitor > System > Services
- D . Host > Configure > System > Services
In a VxRail appliance, what does vSAN use in the form of flexible data containers to store and manage data?
- A . Logical volumes
- B . nodes
- C . Datastores
- D . Objects
What is used in the VxRail infrastructure to manage multiple clusters of ESXi servers?
- A . Host client
- B . vCenter
- C . VxRail Manager
- D . ESXi
As a VxRail administrator you have been asked to configure vSAN fault domains After selecting the VxRail cluster, where would you navigate to in vCenter to accomplish this task?
- A . Configure > vSAN > Disk Management > Fault Domains & Stretched Cluster
- B . Configure > vSAN > General > Fault Domains & Stretched Cluster
- C . Configure > vSAN > Fault Domains & Stretched Cluster
- D . Configure > vSAN > Configuration Assist > Fault Domains & Stretched Cluster
What is the VxRail API path for downloading the log bundle?
- A . /v1/support/logs/(Log ID)
- B . /v1/requests/(Request ID)
- C . /v1/support/logs
- D . /v1/support/logs/(Log ID)/download
What enables an administrator to download qualified software products for the VxRail System?
- A . Secure Remote Services
- B . MyVxRail
- C . VxRail Market
- D . vSphere Update Manager
VxRail Stretched cluster deployment with eight nodes at each data site is being proposed.
What is the latency requirement between each data site and the Witness site?
- A . Less than 100 ms
- B . Less than 200 ms
- C . Less than 10 ms
- D . Less than 5 ms
A VxRail deployment has eight nodes. The VxRail administrator does not find any compatible datastores when trying to create a storage policy with FTT=2 and FTM=Erasure Coding.
What is the likely reason?
- A . Fault domains have not been configured yet
- B . vSAN capacity reserve has been enabled
- C . vSAN datastore used capacity is above 80%
- D . Erasure coding is only supported on all-flash systems
What is the maximum number of nodes supported in a VxRail cluster with 1 GbE networking?
- A . 12
- B . 8
- C . 4
- D . 16
Which system components are managed through a vCenter plug-in?
- A . RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines
vSphere - B . Secure Connect Gateway
vSphere - C . VxRail Manager
RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines - D . VxRail Manager
Secure Connect Gateway
An administrator is tasked with remediating the identified security vulnerabilities in the VxRail cluster. The administrator needs more information to resolve the security issues.
What should be used to gather the required information?
- A . Advisories
- B . Event Codes
- C . Health Analyzer
- D . Skyline Health
A failure occurs while upgrading a VxRail cluster.
Which log file should be analyzed?
- A . loudmouth.log
- B . platform_svc.log
- C . marvin.log
- D . lcm-web.log
A VxRail administrator wants to monitor vSAN Backend IOPS, Throughput, and Latency in the vSphere Web Client.
What must be turned on to monitor these metrics?
- A . vSAN Health Service
- B . vSAN Disk Management
- C . vSAN Performance Service
- D . vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Which VxRail cluster can tolerate a host failure?
- A . Number of Nodes: 4 Memory Utilization: 80%
- B . Number of Nodes: 5 Memory Utilization: 82%
- C . Number of Nodes: 3 Memory Utilization: 60%
- D . Number of Nodes: 6 Memory Utilization: 85%
What is the minimum number of nodes needed for self-healing after a failure with a vSAN storage policy of FTT = 1 and FTM = Mirroring?
- A . 3
- B . 4
- C . 5
- D . 6
Which user interface provides remote power control (power on and power off) for VxRail E Series nodes?
- A . VxRail Manager
- B . IPM/BMC
- C . iDRAC
- D . VMware vSphere Web Client
A VxRail administrator is concerned that the NDC is a single point of failure on your VxRail nodes.
What can be done to increase redundancy in this scenario?
- A . Spread network traffic across two ports on a PCIe adapter
- B . Spread network traffic across other nodes in the cluster
- C . Spread network traffic across NDC and PCIe adapter ports
- D . Spread network traffic across two NDC
A company intends to deploy VxRail for their heavy database workloads on Oracle 11G.
Which type of VxRail nodes should be recommended?
- A . E Series
- B . S Series
- C . P Series
- D . V Series
A systems administrator is tasked with upgrading the VxRail software.
Which resource should the administrator use to plan the upgrade?
- A . MyVxRail
- B . ProSupport Services
- C . SolVe Online
- D . OpenManage Enterprise
When vSAN deduplication and compression are enabled on an existing VxRail cluster, when does the disk reformatting operation occur?
- A . Immediately
- B . Every 5 minutes
- C . Every 60 minutes
- D . As new data is written
In the vSphere Client, where is VxRail Health Monitoring enabled?
- A . Cluster > Monitor > VxRail
- B . Cluster > Configure > VxRail
- C . Menu > Administration
- D . Menu > VxRail
A VxRail cluster needs to be moved to a new rack in the datacenter. During this process, the entire cluster will be temporarily shut down.
Which Maintenance Mode option is the best fit?
- A . Protected maintenance mode
- B . Ensure accessibility
- C . Full data migration
- D . No data migration
Using the VxRail Plugin, what does VxRail administrator use to compare the current component version state against the expected component version state?
- A . Compliance Reports
- B . Skyline Reports
- C . VxRail VxVerify
- D . Health Monitoring
Which VxRail cluster can tolerate a host failure?
- A . Number of Nodes: 3 Compute Utilization: 70%
- B . Number of Nodes: 4 Compute Utilization: 80%
- C . Number of Nodes: 6 Compute Utilization: 85%
- D . Number of Nodes: 12 Compute Utilization: 85%
As a VxRail administrator, you must determine how long the rebuild will take after experiencing a hardware failure in the cluster.
When could you locate this information in the vSphere Web Client?
- A . Monitor > vSAN > Physical Disks
- B . Monitor > vSAN > Resyncing Components
- C . Monitor > vSAN > Health
- D . Monitor > vSAN > Virtual Objects
Which software component is used to collect real-time log activity for VxRail?
- A . Platform Services Controller
- B . vRealize Log Insight
- C . vCenter
- D . VxRail Manager
A VxRail has been configured with the VxRail-deployed vCenter Server option.
Which service VMs can be optionally hosted on the VxRail cluster?
- A . VxRail Manager, vCenter Server, and Platform Services Controller
- B . VxRail Manager and Secure Remote Services/VE
- C . vCenter Server, Platform Services Controller, and Secure Remote Services/VE
- D . vRealize Log Insight and Secure Remote Services/VE
When needed, the vSAN might also break large objects into multiple components.
What is the maximum size of a component?
- A . 63 GB
- B . 127 GB
- C . 255 GB
- D . 511 GB
An administrator wants to perform maintenance on a VxRail system.
What should the VxRail Cluster Health Monitoring status be set to before starting the maintenance activity?
- A . Disabled
- B . Enabled
- C . Suspended
- D . Maintenance mode
Which software-defined storage is used by VxRail?
- A . VMware VVols
- B . Dell EMC FlexOS
- C . Dell EMC ScalelO
- D . VMware vSAN
A user has three G Series nodes in a VxRail cluster. They are planning to add five additional G Series nodes.
How much additional rack is required to accommodate the new nodes?
- A . 1U
- B . 2U
- C . 5U
- D . 10U
An environment has two VxRail clusters with the following hardware configuration:
– Cluster-A is using FTT = 2 and FTM = Erasure Coding
– Cluster-B is using FTT = 2 and FTM = Mirroring
A 100 GB VM is planned to be vMotioned from Cluster-A to Cluster-B.
How much more vSAN capacity is consumed in Cluster-B than in Cluster-A?
- A . 0 GB; consumption is unchanged
- B . 100 GB
- C . 150 GB
- D . 167 GB
When a RAID-5 storage policy is used, what is the minimum number of VxRail nodes required for vSAN self-healing after a failure?
- A . 3
- B . 4
- C . 5
- D . 6
A company has bought VxRail V Series appliances with PCle network cards.
How can the PCle NIC ports be configured in VxRail for data traffic?
- A . Create new Standard or DV switch and add these NICs as uplinks to carry both vMotion and VM network traffic
- B . During initial VxRail setup the NIC ports would be configured automatically to carry VM network traffic
- C . Create new Standard or DV switch and add these NICs as uplinks to carry VM network traffic
- D . During initial VxRail setup the NIC ports would be configured automatically to carry both vMotion and VM network traffic
In which environment is it recommended to enable vSAN deduplication and compression?
- A . VDI Using Linked Clones
- B . OLTP Databases
- C . Mixed Workloads
- D . VDI Using Full Clones
Which API call asks the VxRail Manager to apply partial modification to a resource?
- A . PATCH
- B . PUT
- C . POST
- D . GET
A developer would like to test the VxRail API calls directly in their browser.
What tool should be used for this use case?
- A . VxRail API RESTful API Cookbook
- B . VxRail Onboard API Documentation via Swagger
- C . VxRail API PowerShell package
- D . VxRail API User Guide
Which path should be followed to determine how much vSAN capacity is available?
- A . Cluster > Monitor > vSAN > Capacity
- B . Cluster > Monitor > vSAN > Physical Disks
- C . Cluster > Monitor > vSAN > Skyline Health
- D . Cluster > Configure > vSAN > Disk Management
What functionality does the iDRAC provide for VxRail nodes?
- A . Network Management
- B . vSAN Configuration
- C . Virtual Machine Management
- D . Firmware updates
What is a supported feature when using a vSAN HCI Mesh?
- A . Two-node vSAN clusters
- B . Data in Transit Encryption
- C . vSAN file services
- D . Storage vMotion
A VxRail administrator has configured a VxRail stretch cluster with the default distributed virtual switch networks.
Which network is missing?
- A . vSphere vMotion network
- B . Management network
- C . Stretch network
- D . Virtual SAN network
An administrator is trying to monitor vSAN backend IOPS, throughput, and latency in the vSphere Client.
What must be turned on to monitor these metrics?
- A . vSAN Disk Management
- B . vSAN Performance Service
- C . vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- D . vSAN Health Service
Which VxRail deployment model is recommended in environments that prohibit the use of a corporate DNS server?
- A . Internal vCenter with external DNS
- B . External vCenter with external DNS
- C . External vCenter with internal DNS
- D . Internal vCenter with internal DNS
In a VxRail appliance, which task is performed using VxRail Manager?
- A . Create storage pools
- B . Remediate health events
- C . Manage VxRail users and roles
- D . Perform software upgrade
What is the recommended vSphere HA response to a Datastore with All Paths Down event for vSAN HCI Mesh client clusters?
- A . Disabled
- B . Power off and restart VMs
- C . Issue events
- D . Shut down and restart VMs
Using the VxRail Manager, what information can be located under the node physical view?
- A . Temperature and Health State
- B . Operational Node Status and Appliance ID
- C . Health State and Memory
- D . Location and PSNT
What is the fault tolerance method provided by the default storage policy on a newly deployed VxRail all-flash cluster?
- A . RAID-5
- B . RAID-1
- C . RAID-6
- D . RAID-1/10
What is the default time, in minutes, of the vSAN object repair timer?
- A . 30
- B . 60
- C . 120
- D . 1440
A VxRail administrator is concerned that the NDC is a single point of failure on your VxRail nodes.
What can be done to increase redundancy in this scenario?
- A . Spread network traffic across two ports on a PCIe adapter
- B . Spread network traffic across other nodes in the cluster
- C . Spread network traffic across NDC and PCIe adapter ports
- D . Spread network traffic across two NDC
A construction company is leveraging the benefits of VxRail to support the engineering workloads. The engineers work remotely and utilize graphics intensive workloads. They use computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications for high-end 2D/3D models and digital content creation.
Which VxRail model has been deployed by the company?
- A . D Series
- B . P Series
- C . S Series
- D . V Series
Which VxRail Manager view displays the storage IOPS, CPU, memory, and storage usage at the VxRail cluster level?
- A . Health > Physical
- B . health > Logical
- C . Dashboard
- D . Config > System
A VxRail administrator has been tasked with configuring static LAG for a VxRail cluster vSAN traffic. The ToR switches have already been configured.
Which VDS port group load balancing option should be configured?
- A . Route based on physical NIC load
- B . Route based on originating virtual port
- C . Route based on IP hash
- D . Route based on source MAC hash
Which VMware feature will restart the VM on a different host when the original host fails?
- A . Distributed Resource Scheduler
- B . High Availability
- C . vMotion
- D . Fault Tolerance
You are a VxRail system administrator and have received an email alert that a power on the VxRail has occurred. You contact Dell EMC Support and they ask you to run VxRail system diagnostics and send them a log.
Under which tab in VxRail Manager can you find the appropriate Diagnostics button?
- A . System Diagnostic
- B . System Health
- C . Config Health
- D . Config General