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 are two recommended reasons for configuring a cluster with at least one node in addition to the minimum required number? (Choose two.)

A. To ensure object accessibility

B. To support the use of RAID-6

C. To provide more flexible storage policy options

D. To provide full protection during maintenance mode operations

E. To support data at rest encryption on vSAN hybrid clusters

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

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

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

What is the purpose of slack space in vSAN?

A. Increases overall vSAN capacity

B. Allows for maintenance and failure operations

C. Stores vSphere HA heartbeats

D. Provides vSAN analytic data

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

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

A. .vswp

B. .vmsn

C. .vmx

D. .vmem

A vSAN cluster has this 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.)

A. Add a host to the cluster

B. Add a cache device to each disk group

C. Add a capacity drive to each disk group

D. Replace a cache device with a larger cache device

E. Add a disk group to each host

Which two pre-checks should be taken prior to starting a vSAN upgrade? (Choose two.)

A. disable deduplication/compression

B. upgrade VMware Tools

C. verify vSAN Health

D. upgrade vCenter Server

E. upgrade virtual hardware

A company implements a vSAN environment with linked clone virtual desktops and homogeneous desktop operating systems. During the last three months, users have experienced intermittent high latency, degraded performance, and lockout from desktops.
Which two methods should an administrator use to monitor and respond to the issues? (Choose two.)

A. vRealize Log Insight

B. vRealize Automation

C. Live Optics

D. HCIBench

E. vRealize Operations Manager

When should an administrator enable Resynchronization Throttling?

A. when a host fails to exit maintenance mode

B. when vSAN host CPU utilization is above 80%

C. when directed by VMware Global Support Services

D. when vSAN datastore free space is less than 20%

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

Which default VMware vSphere High Availability cluster setting must be changed when using a vSAN stretched cluster?

A. Datastore with All Paths Down

B. Datastore with Permanent Device Loss

C. Response for Host Isolation

D. Enable Host Monitoring

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

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 can be used to make the device available?

A. delete all device partitions

B. format the existing partition

C. create a 1GB metadata partition

D. create a VMFS partition

Refer to the exhibit.
 
A storage administrator is designing a vSAN stretched cluster with production workload running on a preferred site. A VM has been deployed on the preferred site.
How does the VM read I/O?

A. 50 percent from preferred site and 50 percent from non-preferred site

B. 70 percent from preferred site and 30 percent from non-preferred site

C. 100 percent from preferred site

D. 100 percent from non-preferred site

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

Refer to the exhibit.
 
Which networking requirement fulfills the connectivity between the Data Sites and the Witness node?

A. Extended Data Site network

B. vMotion network

C. Direct Connect network

D. Layer 3 network

What could cause a vSAN stretched cluster to fail?

A. 5ms round-trip time (RTT) between data sites

B. blocked UDP ports on the firewall between data sites

C. Layer 3 communication from the data sites to the witness site

D. static routes between the witness site and data site

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.

An architect is asked to design a vSAN cluster with these requirements:
-Supports erasure coding storage policy
-Minimized inaccessibility from single device failures
-Ability to re-protect data after a failure
The desired configuration should be able to survive a single failure.
Which configuration satisfies the design requirements?

A. 3-node hybrid vSAN cluster

B. 4-node hybrid vSAN cluster

C. 4-node all-flash vSAN cluster

D. 5-node all-flash vSAN cluster

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 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

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

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

Which vSAN Health Check category is viewed to confirm supported storage controller drivers are in use across all hosts in the cluster?

A. Capacity view

B. Device mapping

C. vSAN Build Recommendations

D. Hardware compatibility

The Resyncing Objects view in the vCenter UI reports that some objects are currently resyncing.
Which two actions would cause the objects to resync? (Choose two).

A. A change to the storage policy is applied to the objects.

B. A VM snapshot is being deleted.

C. An ongoing vMotion operation is moving a VM between hosts in the cluster.

D. A host failure occurs in the cluster.

E. HA Virtual Machine Monitoring forced a VM to reboot.

vSAN Health shows a warning icon next to vSAN Disk Balance health check.
What can be done to fix this issue?

A. Click Repair Objects Immediately.

B. Reduce the maximum component size.

C. Enable Resynchronization Throttling.

D. Click Proactive Rebalance Disks.

When would disabling Read Locality be beneficial for a 2-node vSAN?

A. when using all-flash disk groups

B. when using hybrid disk groups

C. when using erasure coding

D. when using witness traffic separation

Refer to the exhibit.
 
What is the minimum number of data nodes across all sites in a vSAN stretched cluster configuration with the above storage policy?

A. 4

B. 6

C. 8

D. 9

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

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.

You are designing a vSAN stretched cluster solution.
What is the maximum number of nodes possible for this solution?

A. 15 per data site + 1 witness host

B. 30 per data site + 1 witness host

C. 32 per data site + 1 witness host

D. 64 per data site + 1 witness host

Refer to the exhibit.
 
A vSAN cluster has recently prompted an online health alarm.
What can the system administrator do to resolve the issue?

A. Disable Customer Experience Improvement Program feature.

B. Upgrade the ESXi host.

C. Suppress warning on the alarm.

D. Move VMs on affected host to other host(s).

vSAN identifies a dying disk.
When is operator action required to provide data protection?

A. when the cluster lacks resources

B. when vSAN Health service is disabled

C. when an object storage policy uses erasure coding

D. when an object storage policy uses FTT=3

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

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.

The vSAN host memory needs to be replaced and the entire operation is expected to take 90-120 minutes.
Which vSAN advanced setting can be adjusted to avoid rebuild operations during the host hardware maintenance?

A. Site Read Locality

B. Forced Provisioning

C. Object Repair Timer

D. Thin Swap

When using vSAN Encryption, where does the Key Encryption Key persistently reside?

A. in /etc/vmware/ssl on each vSAN host

B. in the KMS server

C. in a VM configuration file on vSAN

D. in the vCenter Server cache

An administrator wants to increase the capacity of a disk group cache device.
What is required to increase the cache device size?

A. Hot swap the disk group cache device.

B. Perform a storage vMotion between disk groups.

C. Put the disk group in maintenance mode and swap the cache device.

D. Recreate the disk group with a new cache device.

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

A vSAN administrator is designing a new all-flash vSAN cluster. The cluster will host read intensive applications.
Which factor should be included in the design to improve read performance?

A. Multiple disk groups

B. Large capacity disks

C. Large cache disks

D. Large controller cache

What is the maximum network latency round-trip time (RTT) requirement for vSAN stretched clusters from data site to data site?

A. 5ms

B. 10ms

C. 100ms

D. 200ms

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

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

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

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.

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