A vSAN administrator has a group of requirements from the application team, which mandates spreading the components across storage devices as much as possible.
What should the vSAN Administrator consider to achieve such a requirement for building a new vSAN cluster? (Choose two.)
- A . Configure disk striping in OSA
- B . Configure disk striping in ESA
- C . Enable Force Provisioning in OSA
- D . Enable deduplication for vSAN
- E . Create a dedicated Storage Pool in ESA
A site administrator wishes to implement HCI mesh between two clusters on vSAN that are located in geographically separate sites and which are administered within a single datacenter.
Which two requirements should the vSAN administrator consider to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)
- A . Either Layer 2 or Layer 3 communications can be used
- B . A leaf spine topology is required for core redundancy and reduced latency
- C . NIC teaming must be implemented for the vSAN network vmkernel port
- D . The configuration must meet the same latency and bandwidth requirement as local vSAN
- E . Encryption must be disabled prior to configuring HCI mesh
An administrator has 24 physical servers that need to be configured with vSAN. The administrator needs to ensure that a single rack failure is not going to affect the data availability. The number of racks used should be minimized.
What has to be done and configured to achieve this goal?
- A . Distribute servers across at least two different racks and configure two fault domains
- B . Configure disk groups with a minimum of four capacity disks in each server and distribute them across four racks
- C . Enable deduplication and compression
- D . Distribute servers across at least three different racks and configure three fault domains
An administrator wants to assign a storage policy to a workload on a two-node vSAN OSA cluster consisting of three disk groups each with nested fault domains. The virtual machine must be protected against a disk or disk group failure.
Which two storage policies meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
- A . RAID-5/FTT 2
- B . RAID-1/FTT 3
- C . RAID-6/FTT 2
- D . RAID-5/FTT 1
- E . RAID-1/FTT 1
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?
- A . Disks
- B . Host Network
- C . Resvnc Latency
- D . Backend
An 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.)
- A . Create VM/Host groups for the two sites
- B . Create a single VM/Host group across both sites
- C . Put the VMs in a vSphere DRS group
- D . Put the VMs in the correct VM group
- E . Create a storage policy that includes site affinity rules and apply to VMs
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?
- A . Organizational Unit, User Account, Password
- B . Active Directory Domain, User Account, Password
- C . Kerberos Server, User Account, Password
- D . Active Directory Domain. Organizational Unit, User Account. Password
An all-flash vSAN ESA cluster contains four nodes.
Which two storage policies can the cluster satisfy? (Choose two.)
- A . FTT=3 (RAID-1 Mirroring)
- B . FTT=2 (RAID-1 Mirroring)
- C . FTT=I (RAID-5 Erasure Coding)
- D . FTT=I (RAID-1 Mirroring)
- E . FTT=2 (RAID-6 Erasure Coding)
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?
- A . The vRealize Operations Manager is not integrated with vSAN cluster.
- B . The administrator has read-only permissions on the cluster level.
- C . vSAN performance statistics are only available via CLI.
- D . vSAN performance service is not enabled.
What is the maximum amount of capacity disks an administrator can have in disk groups on a single
vSAN OSA host?
- A . 35
- B . 40
- C . 30
- D . 25
In which type of environment is vSAN storage used as a mandatory, primary storage?
- A . VMware Cloud on AWS
- B . VMware Horizon
- C . VMware Aria Automation
- D . Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition
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?
- A . Modify the FTT rule to "2 Failures – RAID-5 (Erasure Coding)"
- B . Add the "Flash read cache reservation" rule to the storage policy, and set to 0%
- C . Disable Operations reserve and Host rebuild reserve and click "Apply"
- D . Change the FTT rule to "1 Failure – RAID-1 (Mirroring)", and select "Now" for Reapply to VMs
A vSAN administrator is using the vSAN ReadyNode Sizer to build a new environment. While entering the cluster configurations, a fellow colleague inquires about the Operations Reserve option.
What is the purpose of using this option?
- A . Provides space for internal operations
- B . Configures space for external operations
- C . Reserves space for tolerating failures
- D . Allocates space forvSAN uparades
A vSAN administrator needs to build a vSAN ESA cluster with RAID-5/FTT 1 adaptive storage policy.
What is the absolute minimum number of hosts that need to be part of that vSAN ESA cluster?
- A . 6 hosts
- B . 4 hosts
5 hosts - C . 3 hosts
A vSAN administrator has a cluster configured with a Storage Pool that was moved to a new physical DC.
Upon checking on the vSAN cluster health status, one of the ESXi hosts has two storage devices in a degraded state and must be replaced.
What must the vSAN administrator do to restore the health of the vSAN cluster with minimum risk?
- A . Remove the host from ySAN configuration, replace the faulty disks, re-create the storage pool
- B . Remove the entire storage pool, install the new devices, re-create the storage pool
- C . Remove the host from the cluster, replace the faulty disks, re-add the host to the cluster
- D . Remove the devices from the storage pool, replace the storage devices, claim the new devices in vSAN
The Resyncing Objects view in the vCenter UI reports that some objects are currently resyncing.
Which two actions would cause this situation? (Choose two.)
- A . A change to the storage policy is applied to the objects.
- B . DRS is relocating VMs between vSAN nodes.
- C . A host failure occurs in the cluster
- D . HA Virtual Machine Monitoring forced a VM to reboot.
- E . VM snapshot is being deleted.
A customer wishes to host a new range of applications with high-performance needs, specifically, low latency.
The applications are required to be hosted at company-owned edge locations, each with minimal rack space (three host slots per edge location for this project).
Which deployment options would satisfy the customer’s needs, while maximizing the amount of capacity available per deployment?
- A . A new three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with OSA in each edge location Each application VM configured with a RAID-5 VM storage policy
- B . A new three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with OSA in each edge location Each application VM configured with a RAID-1 VM storage policy
- C . A new three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with ESA in each edge location Each application VM configured with a RAID-1 VM storage policy
- D . A new three-node vSAN 8.0 All-Flash Cluster with ESA in each edge location Each application VM configured with a RAID-5 VM storage policy
What is the minimum required number of hosts to provide data redundancy for a vSAN stretched cluster using dual-site mirroring and local protection with 1 failure – RAID-1 (Mirroring)?
- A . 3 hosts
- B . 3 hosts
- C . 4 hosts
- D . 6 hosts
An administrator is responsible for managing a five-node vSAN 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 – RAID-5 (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?
- A . Each virtual machine will be restarted on another vSAN host using vSphere HA.
- B . Each virtual machine will be unavailable for up to 90 minutes while the automatic recovery process completes.
- C . 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.
- D . Each virtual machine must be restored from backup.
A vSAN administrator of a non-internet connected vSAN environment wants to upgrade the environment from the vSAN 7.0 U3 to the vSAN 8.0 using vLCM.
Which option, if any, should be used as a depot in this case?
- A . Configure the vSphere Lifecycle Manager to download the updates from an Online Depot.
- B . Configure the vSphere Lifecycle Manager to download the updates from the VMware Depot using HTTPS.
- C . Configure the vSphere Lifecycle Manager to download updates from a local UMDS-shared repository.
- D . It is not possible to use the vSphere Lifecycle Manager on a non-internet connected environment.
Due to a planned power outage, an administrator decides to shut down the vSAN cluster using the Shutdown Cluster Wizard. The administrator starts by checking the vSAN health service to confirm the cluster is healthy and then powers off all virtual machines (VMs) including vCLS VMs.
Which step needs to be taken before starting the Shutdown Cluster Wizard?
- A . Place all ESXi hosts into maintenance mode
- B . Disable cluster member updates from vCenter Server
- C . Turn off High Availability
- D . Shutdown vCenter
An application refactor requires significant storage that is being added for logs stored on a VM vDISK. The application VMs run 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?
- A . vSAN File Services
- B . vSAN HCI Mesh
- C . vSAN Replication
- D . vSAN Stretched Clusters
Which two actions are recommended when adding a host to a vSAN cluster? (Choose two.)
- A . Create uniformly-configured hosts
- B . Disable vSAN performance service
- C . Disable vSphere Cluster Services
- D . Disable vSphere High Availability (HA)
- E . Reference the VMware Compatibility Guide
What are two characteristics of the vSAN Data-At-Rest Encryption (DARE)? (Choose two.)
- A . it requires Self-Encrypting Drives in order to work.
- B . it needs to be enabled together with the vSAN Data-In-Transit encryption.
- C . it is Software Defined and works independently of the Cache or Capacity drives installed on the Nodes.
- D . it is not supported on Stretched Cluster environments.
- E . it continues to operate unaffected during downtime on vCenter Server.
A vSAN administrator needs to update vSAN from version 7.0.2 to version 8.0.
Which is the correct order to perform the update?
- A . vSphere -> vCenter -> vSAN on-disk format
- B . vSphere -> vSAN on-disk format -> vCenter
- C . vCenter -> vSphere -> vSAN on-disk format
- D . vSAN on-disk format -> vSphere -> vCenter