In a vSAN Stretched Cluster configuration, when is the non-preferred site determined to be isolated?

A. When the master node is unable to communicate with any non-preferred site nodes

B. When the nodes in the non-preferred site are unable to communicate with the vSAN Witness

C. When the backup node is unable to communicate with the preferred site

D. When the master node is unable to communicate with the backup node

An administrator is configuring vSAN Encryption on an existing hybrid cluster. During the configuration, the administrator is unable to see any information for the
Key Management Server (KMS) cluster in the dropdown menu.
What is necessary for the KMS cluster options to populate?

A. vSAN encryption requires all-flash configurations.

B. vSAN encryption needs to be enabled during the creation of a new vSAN cluster.

C. The Key Management Server needs to be added to vCenter.

D. vSAN encryption is enabled at the VM level by storage policies.

Refer to the red question mark in the exhibit.
 
Which VMware solution provides automated interoperability to failover and re-protect VMs from Site A to Site B, and Site B to Site A?

A. vSphere Integrated Containers

B. NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud

C. vRealize Operations

D. Site Recovery Manager

The cluster level backend IOPS performance graph shows a higher-than-average number of IOPS.
What is a possible reason for this?

A. Data resynchronizations

B. Low volume of vSAN vital memory pools

C. DRS invoking multiple vMotion migrations

D. Destaging congestion

vCenter Server is offline.
What are two ways to check the health of a vSAN cluster? (Choose two.)

A. ESXi system logs on vSAN datastore

B. vSphere Host Client

C. esxcli

D. HCIBench

E. esxtop

What is a benefit of using vSphere Distributed Switches in a vSAN network?

A. Simplifies network abstraction

B. Enables network redundancy

C. Supports faster network adapters

D. Provides the ability to adjust the MTU

Where would an administrator enable deduplication and compression in a vSAN environment?

A. at the cluster level under vSAN services

B. at the object level using storage policies

C. at the host level using ESXCLI commands

D. at the disk group level

How do vSAN fault domains relate to vSAN component placement?

A. Storage policies are inherited by vSAN fault domains.

B. vSAN objects only exist in a single vSAN fault domain.

C. The number of vSAN fault domains determines the number of components of an object.

D. Storage policies use vSAN fault domains for component placement.

Refer to the exhibit.
 
 
A solution architect is setting up a highly resilient vSAN hybrid cluster.
Why is the cache incorrectly sized in this configuration?

A. Cache disk needs to meet vSAN Compatibility Guide

B. Cache-to-capacity ratio needs to be sized lower

C. Cache-to-capacity ratio needs to be sized higher

D. Number of cache disks in disk group is insufficient.

Which solution is used to apply upgrades to a vSAN cluster?

A. VMware vRealize Operations Manager

B. VMware Update Manager

C. VMware vRealize Automation

D. VMware Lifecycle Manager

In a vSAN all-flash configuration, which two design tasks influence the selection of flash and capacity disks? (Choose two.)

A. Reserving 10 percent of cluster CPU

B. Reserving 8 vCPU and 32GB vRAM for controller VM

C. Determining workload type

D. Selecting appropriate flash device endurance

E. Sizing two flash drives for every disk group

A storage policy has these rules:
✑ Site disaster tolerance: None - standard cluster
✑ Failures To Tolerance: 2 failures - RAID-1 (Mirroring)
What is the minimum number of hosts required to comply with this storage policy?

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

An organization is no longer compliant with security requirements because a vSphere administrator disabled encryption on a vSAN cluster.
Which vCenter Server role ensures only authorized vSphere administrators have access to encryption functionality?

A. Administrator

B. Read-only

C. No cryptography administrator

D. No access

An ESXi host is being re-purposed from a 4-node cluster. The default policy is in use and storage utilization is low.
Which maintenance mode should be used to avoid storage policy non-compliance?

A. Ensure accessibility

B. No data migration

C. Proactive rebalance

D. Full data migration

The vSphere Client reports that the state of some components stored on the vSAN datastore are in the Reconfiguring state.
What causes components to enter this state?

A. The cluster is recovering from a vSAN failure.

B. A host in the cluster enters maintenance mode.

C. The storage policy associated with the components is changed or modified.

D. Additional storage capacity is added to the cluster.

vSAN is configured with a storage policy with a Failures To Tolerate (FTT) set to three.
Which type of redundancy is being used?

A. RAID-0 (Striping)

B. RAID-1 (Mirroring)

C. RAID-6 (Erasure Coding)

D. RAID-5 (Erasure Coding)

Which two object space reservation choices are available when deduplication and compression are enabled? (Choose two.)

A. thin provisioning

B. 25% reservation

C. thick provisioning

D. 50% reservation

E. 75% reservation

End-users are complaining that an application running on an all-flash vSAN datastore is not performing well.
Which performance chart should an administrator view to troubleshoot this issue?

A. Recovery Write IOPS

B. Resync Latency

C. Read Cache Read IOPS

D. Write Buffer Free Percentage

An administrator is designing a vSAN cluster for performance driven workloads.
Which design decision will provide more I/O paths to the vSAN cluster?

A. add cache devices to disk groups

B. add compute-only nodes

C. add disk groups to each host

D. add CPUs to each host

How do vSAN stretched clusters protect against entire site failures?

A. asynchronous data transfer

B. online witness replacement

C. virtual machine data copied from the witness site

D. redundant components placed at both sites

A storage administrator discovers vSAN is rebalancing components across a cluster randomly and faces degraded performance on the applications.
What should be done to avoid these issues?

A. Size at least two disk groups on each node

B. Maintain a minimum of 10 percent unused capacity

C. Keep total storage consumption <70 percent

D. Ensure there is sufficient queue depth on the I/O Controller

A 3-node vSAN cluster will take which two actions, when a drive is physically removed from a vSAN node? (Choose two.)

A. Marks all components on that device as absent

B. Marks all components on that device as degraded

C. Waits for the configured delay timer before rebuild

D. Marks all components on that device as stale

E. Starts component rebuild immediately

An administrator is implementing deduplication and compression on a vSAN all-flash cluster.
-There are 4 nodes in the vSAN cluster.
-Existing VMs use a RAID-5 storage policy
How can deduplication and compression be enabled while permitting the VMs to remain operational?

A. Enable vSAN datastore encryption.

B. Use explicit fault domains.

C. Use the Allow Reduced Redundancy option.

D. Enable TRIM/UNMAP.

A vSAN administrator is working with a network administrator to design a highly resilient all-flash vSAN cluster.
Which design factor allows for a highly resilient vSAN network?

A. virtual distributed switch

B. NIC teaming

C. dedicated port groups

D. virtual standard switch

What is a mandatory requirement for a vSAN stretched cluster?

A. Two witness hosts protected by vSphere Fault Tolerance

B. Minimum of two guaranteed lines of 10Gbps bandwidth

C. vSphere Replication configured between the data sites

D. Latency between data sites must be less than or equal to 5ms

What is a supported use of the vSAN iSCSI target service?

A. To provision storage as a VM Raw Device Mapping

B. To provision storage for third-party hypervisors

C. To provision storage for an ESXi host

D. To provision storage for an Oracle RAC cluster

What is the formula for determining the minimum number of vSAN hosts in a cluster necessary to support a Failures To Tolerate (FTT) policy, where FTT=n?

A. n+1

B. n+2

C. 2n+1

D. 2n+2

An administrator wishes to prevent notifications of vSAN Health status during a scheduled maintenance window.
What can be done to achieve this?

A. Disable SNMP service

B. Disable the performance service

C. Run performance diagnostics prior to scheduled maintenance

D. Silence the alert from the HTML client

What is the configured default time of vSAN Health?

A. 10 minutes

B. 15 minutes

C. 30 minutes

D. 60 minutes

A vSAN 5-node cluster has two sets of VMs, each associated with a separate storage policy.
-Group A (Storage Policy: FTT=0)
-Group B (Storage Policy: FTT=2)
What are two possible results when two hosts in the vSAN cluster fail permanently? (Choose two.)

A. VMs in Group B will become inaccessible if a third host permanently fails.

B. vSAN will rebuild data associated with Group A.

C. VMs in Group A might experience data inaccessibility.

D. VMs in Goup B might experience data loss.

E. A host can be put into maintenance mode without impacting VMs in either Group A or B.

A group of vSAN components that reside on a failed drive are marked degraded.
How long does vSAN wait by default, before rebuilding these components on other healthy drives in the cluster?

A. 0 minutes

B. 5 minutes

C. 30 minutes

D. 60 minutes

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.
Assuming all other disks have not suffered from a hardware failure, why would vSAN mark all disks in the group as failed?

A. The vSAN disk management service has failed.

B. The affected vSphere host is offline.

C. The key management server is offline.

D. Deduplication and compression are enabled on the vSAN cluster.

Which two group types are used to determine capacity breakdown in a vSAN datastore? (Choose two.)

A. network

B. CPU

C. data

D. memory

E. object

What would cause a vSAN: Basic (unicast) connectivity check failure in vSAN Health Check?

A. One or more hosts in the cluster are unable to ping the vSAN VMkernel adapters of other hosts in the cluster.

B. The throughput of the physical network supporting vSAN traffic is less than the recommended minimum throughput.

C. The vSAN VMkernel adapter is shared with another service such as vMotion.

D. vSAN is configured to use multicast to transmit data.

Which resource provides information about vSAN compatibility with other VMware products?

A. VMware Product Interoperability Matrices

B. vSAN Sizing Guide

C. vSAN Ready Node Configurator

D. vSAN Compatibility Guide

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 elapse.
What is the health state of the objects?

A. Reduced availability with no rebuild

B. Reduced availability with no rebuild “” delay timer

C. Non-availability related incompliance [non-compliance]

D. Reduced availability

A virtual machine is unable to access one of its virtual disks.
Which vSAN Health check should an administrator view to troubleshoot the issue?

A. Data > vSAN Object Health

B. Cluster > vSAN CLOMD Liveness

C. Cluster > Disk Format Version

D. Limits > vSAN Component Limit

Which VM file type resides in the VM home namespace object on a vSAN datastore?

A. .vswp

B. .vmsn

C. .vmx

D. .vmem

How are components marked on a capacity device that is inaccessible?

A. reduced availability

B. active-stale

C. degraded

D. absent

A pre-vSAN 6.6 node is added to a vSAN cluster that was recently upgraded to vSAN 6.7.
What is the expected behavior for this new node?

A. The node will communicate via unicast with all cluster members.

B. The node will fail to join the vSphere cluster.

C. The node will communicate via multicast with all cluster members.

D. The node will be network partitioned from the other cluster members.

vCenter reports a number of vSAN network alarms on a 2-node vSAN Direct Connect cluster. The test pings show irregularities in the ping results.
Using vSAN Health service, which two checks should be used to identify the network root cause? (Choose two.)

A. Physical disk operation health

B. Network latency

C. vSAN extended configuration

D. vSAN disk balance

E. vSAN basic unicast connectivity

A vSAN all-flash environment with these host specifications has reported high network latency, write latency, and faces degraded performance:
✑ One 1Gbps (vSAN, vMotion Traffic)
✑ One 1Gbps (Management, Fault Tolerance traffic)
Based on the specifications of each host, what is recommended to resolve the issue?

A. collapse all traffic into one 1Gbps NIC

B. collapse all traffic shared under two 10Gbps NICs

C. change stripe width to 12

D. change MTU to 9000

A vSAN administrator has three available racks and six vSAN hosts.
What can a vSAN administrator use to protect against a rack failure while maximizing resources?

A. explicit fault domain

B. vSAN stretched cluster

C. 2-node configuration

D. RAID-6/FTT=2

The data on a failed disk group is being rebuilt on other disk groups. Negative performance impact to VMs is being reported.
What can be used to reduce the negative performance impact on the VMs?

A. resync throttling

B. maintenance mode

C. proactive rebalance

D. disk group data evacuation

A 100GB virtual disk object has this storage policy assigned to it:
✑ Site disaster tolerance: None "" standard cluster
✑ Failures To Tolerate: 1 failure "" RAID-1 (Mirroring)
✑ Number of disk stripes per object: 1
What is the maximum amount of raw vSAN storage capacity consumed by the virtual disk?

A. 100GB

B. 133GB

C. 200 GB

D. 255GB

Refer to the red question mark in the exhibit.
 
When designing a 2-node vSAN cluster, which missing configuration requirement prevents a split-brain scenario?

A. vRealize Operations Manager

B. vSAN Witness Host

C. vCenter Server

D. vRealize Log Insight

Which type of encryption is used for the data encryption key on the vSAN datastore?

A. TLS 1.1

B. TLS 1.2

C. AES-XTS 256

D. AES-XTS 128

An administrator of a vSAN 6.5 environment is planning a path to move to unicast for the vSAN network.
How will the administrator achieve this?

A. Enable LACP on vSAN switch ports.

B. Upgrade vCenter and vSAN nodes to vSAN 6.6 or later.

C. Enable unicast on the vSAN interfaces.

D. Disable multicast for vSAN using ESXCLI commands.

What are two reasons why a vCenter UI can show a Noncompliant status for a VM storage object? (Choose two.)

A. The object is no longer fully compliant with the associated storage policy.

B. A storage hardware failure has caused permanent data loss for the object.

C. The VM storage compliance alarm has been triggered for that object.

D. The object is not associated with a guest VM.

E. The object is not associated with a storage policy.

In stretched clusters, what is a benefit of implementing a virtual witness rather than a physical witness?

A. Reduced vSphere licensing

B. Shared metadata between separate clusters

C. Increased vSAN datastore capacity

D. Increased compute for running VMs