An administrator is planning to deploy a new vSAN cluster with these requirements:
-Physical adapters will share capacity among several traffic types
-Guaranteed bandwidth for vSAN during bandwidth contention
-Enhanced security and performance
What must be considered when configuring the new vSAN cluster?

A. Isolate traffic in a VLAN and utilize Network I/O Control

B. Utilize IOPS Limit rules in storage policies

C. Utilize jumbo frames with Network I/O Control

D. Implement vSphere I/O filters

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A host in a vSAN cluster has the following VMware Compatibility Guide approved disks:
-3 solid state devices (SSD) used for cache
-12 magnetic drivers (HDD) used for capacity
Which two options are valid disk group configurations? (Choose two.)

A. 1 Disk Group with 2 SSD and 6 HDD

B. 1 Disk Group with 3 SSD and 12 HDD

C. 2 Disk Groups with 1 SSD and 6 HDD each

D. 3 Disk Groups with 1 SSD and 4 HDD each

E. 4 Disk Groups with 3 HDD each

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

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.

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

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.
What is the minimum number of hosts required in this vSAN cluster?

A. 4

B. 5

C. 6

D. 7

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.

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.

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

A new vSAN cluster needs to run 900 VMs and protect against one failure.
What is the minimum number of nodes needed to meet the requirement?

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

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

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

What happens to a disk group during cache disk replacement?

A. goes offline

B. changes on-disk format

C. becomes degraded

D. remains online

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

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

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

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 two features are available with the Cluster Quickstart wizard? (Choose two.)

A. Deploy a vSAN Witness appliance

B. Update storage controller drivers

C. Check for errors and inconsistencies

D. Setup lockdown mode for vSAN hosts

E. Perform pre-check evaluation for data migration

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 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 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 vSAN administrator is building a new vSAN cluster and each host only has two physical uplinks configured in a team.
What can the administrator use to ensure vSAN receives the necessary bandwidth while maintaining high availability?

A. Route based on IP hash

B. A dedicated uplink for vSAN traffic

C. Shared uplinks for all traffic

D. Network I/O control

A vSAN Witness has connectivity to a vSAN cluster with supported maximum latency of 500 milliseconds round-trip time (RTT).
Which vSAN cluster type is the vSAN Witness a member of?

A. vSAN stretched cluster with 4 nodes in each site

B. vSAN 2-node direct connected cluster

C. 4-node vSAN cluster using erasure coding

D. 16-node vSAN cluster with nested fault domains

An all-flash vSAN cluster contains four nodes.
Which two storage policies can the cluster satisfy? (Choose two.)

A. FTT=2 (RAID-1 Mirroring)

B. FTT=2 (RAID-6 Erasure Coding)

C. FTT=1 (RAID-1 Mirroring)

D. FTT=1 (RAID-5 Erasure Coding)

E. FTT=3 (RAID-1 Mirroring)

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

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

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

An administrator creates a storage policy with Failures To Tolerate (FTT) of two and RAID-6 erasure coding.
Which cluster configuration with a vSAN datastore is compatible with the storage policy?

A. 6-node hybrid

B. 7-node all-flash

C. 5-node all-flash

D. 4-node hybrid

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 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.

Which two VMware vSphere command-line interface utilities allow an administrator to project the impact of a host failure upon cluster resources? (Choose two.)

A. vdq

B. rvc

C. esxtop

D. esxcli

E. dcui

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 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 perform to accomplish this task?

A. Enable Storage I/O Control.

B. Enable TRIM/UNMAP for the vSAN cluster.

C. Reboot the VM to recreate the swap file.

D. Assign a storage policy with thin provisioning.

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

What is the maximum number of failures an object can tolerate with RAID-6?

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 6

Where are the performance metrics for Write Buffer Free percentage located?

A. host level vSAN performance metrics

B. vSAN capacity graphs

C. vSAN Health Check

D. cluster level vSAN performance metrics

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.

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

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

A. .vswp

B. .vmsn

C. .vmx

D. .vmem

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

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

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%