During a design workshop for a stretched vSAN cluster, the requirement that some of the VMs be configured with no-mirror between sites was discussed.
Which three recommendations should the architect provide to address an event of a network partition between two sites? (Choose three.)

A. Host isolation response must exclude the VMs required

B. The default gateway must be used as the only isolation address

C. One of isolation addresses should reside in the site 1 data center

D. VMware vSphere DRS rules to force the VMs to run where the data resides

E. One isolation address reachable only from the witness appliance in both sites

F. One of isolation addresses should reside in the site 2 data center

Administrator deployed VMs with vSAN Stretched Cluster aware storage policy.
Which percentage of read locality will be maintained?

A. 25%

B. 50%

C. 100%

D. 75%

A 4-node vSAN cluster is configured with an erasure coding storage policy. The Ensure Accessibility maintenance mode was selected. While performing the maintenance, a second node fails.
What will be the impact on the vSAN cluster?

A. There will be no impact on performance.

B. The VMs will no longer be accessible.

C. The performance will be degraded.

D. The VMs will be in a suspended state.

An administrator is tasked with migrating a VMware Horizon View environment that is currently running on an NFS Datastore to VMware vSAN.
Which Horizon configuration option will not be available when configuring vSAN in Horizon View?

A. Instant Clones

B. Linked Clones

C. Storage Tiers

D. Storage Profiles

An administrator is discussing the "No Data Migration" vSAN maintenance mode.
In which situation should the administrator recommend this mode?

A. When the VMs are protected by vSphere Fault Tolerance

B. When the vSAN host requiring maintenance is a compute node only

C. When the cluster has three fault domains configured

D. When objects are configured with FTT=0

An architect is designing for a production vSAN cluster, and the customer introduced these requirements related to File Services:
✑ A minimum of 12 files shares.
✑ 30TB NFS capacity to mount workload VMs.
What should be the architect's recommendations?

A. Point out the risks regarding putting the hosts in maintenance mode in terms of FSVM.

B. Confirm on all of the requirements and move forward with the physical design.

C. Raise concerns regarding support when running VMs on an NFS share as risk.

D. Highlight the required number of nodes required for the vSAN cluster as a constraint.

A customer has upgraded to vSAN 7, but there is still an existing legacy host which must be removed from the vSAN cluster.
Which three steps must an administrator take to successfully remove this host from the vSAN cluster? (Choose three.)

A. Place the host in maintenance mode with Ensure Accessibility

B. Disconnect from vCenter Server

C. Place the host in maintenance mode with Full Data migration

D. Place the host in maintenance mode with no data migration

E. Remove from vSAN cluster

F. Delete the disk group(s) on the legacy host

An architect is tasked with implementing a solution that allows the creation of an active-active datacenter that leverages a vSAN Stretched Cluster. The requirement is to automate deployment with the least administrative efforts.
Which product meets this requirement?

A. VMware VVD

B. vRealize Automation

C. VMware Cloud Foundation

D. vRealize Orchestrator

A company has deployed a 12-node (6-6-1) vSAN 7.0 stretched cluster for all production workloads.
The customer currently uses two different vSAN storage policies for running the workloads depending on the applications requirements:
•	Policy 1 - Site Disaster Tolerance=Dual Site Mirroring, FTT=Erasure Coding
•	Policy 2 - Site Disaster Tolerance=Dual Site Mirroring, FTT=Mirroring
During the setup of the vSAN stretched cluster, the following VM/Host Rules were created:
•	Preferred Site - Preferred Site workloads should run on DC1 hosts.
•	Secondary Site - Secondary Site workloads should run on DC2 hosts.
Which two actions should the administrator take to ensure that there is no impact to production services before completing the maintenance window in the Preferred Site? (Choose two.)

A. Update the Preferred Site vSphere DRS affinity rule to be “Should not run on hosts in group”.

B. Change the Host Groups in the Preferred Site rule to the DC2 hosts.

C. Update the Preferred Site vSphere DRS affinity rule to be “Must run on hosts in group”.

D. Change the Host Groups in the Secondary Site rule to the DC1 hosts.

E. Update the Secondary Site vSphere DRS affinity rule to be “Must run on hosts in group”.

During a vSAN design workshop, a customer expressed a requirement to decommission an existing enterprise NAS device that provides iSCSI services for a clustered application.
Based on the current state analysis, the following information was noted:
•	Current utilization is 500 LUNs.
•	All clustered workloads are configured for Multiple Connections per Session.
•	LUN sizes range between 10 TB to 30 TB.
What should the architect state regarding the requirements?

A. All requirements can be satisfied without any change.

B. Only single connection per session is supported.

C. The number of LUNs require additional licensing.

D. It is a best practice to maintain a LUN size of 8 TB.

An architect has been tasked to deliver a higher availability of the current deployed VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster infrastructure. The new design should incorporate three different sites that can run workloads in case of a failure.
Which product should the architect add to the design to meet these requirements?

A. VMware Site Recovery Manager

B. VMware vSphere Replication

C. VMware Tanzu

D. VMware Horizon

An architect is working with an All-Flash vSAN configuration and will be using the Flash Caching Devices in vSAN.
Which requirement is specifically needed for these devices?

A. Write endurance

B. IOPS

C. Read endurance

D. Capacity

During a vSAN design workshop, the customer has provided the following information:
•	There are many development activities that require burst compute and that there is an in-tention to use the existing ESXi hosts.
•	The existing ESXi hosts are not vSAN ready nodes, so they will not be participating in vSAN capacity.
Which three recommendations should the architect make? (Choose three.)

A. Compute-only hosts can have a vSAN VMkernel with same pNIC speed.

B. It is recommended to add hosts with at least a disk controller for cluster expansion.

C. Compute-only hosts can consume from vSAN even if not within the same cluster.

D. Adding identical vSAN nodes for cluster expansion will support an efficient operation.

E. Compute-only hosts must exist in the same vSAN cluster.

F. Compute-only hosts must have a vSAN VMkernel with same pNIC speed.

A customer is planning to deploy a vSAN cluster to host their in-house distributed ERP system. The hardware specifications for their server nodes include:
✑ 2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
✑ 1TB memory
Which boot device is supported for the vSAN ESXi nodes for this customer?

A. A 16GB single-level cell (SLC) SATADOM device must be used.

B. A 4GB USB or SD device must be used.

C. A 16GB multiple-level cell (MLC) SATADOM device must be used.

D. ESXi Hosts must boot from a PMEM device.

An administrator is tasked with setting up Kerberos authentication only for the vSAN File services.
Which version of Kerberos must be selected if the NFS version is v4.1?

A. krb5i

B. krb4

C. krb5

D. krb5p

An architect is designing a vSAN cluster.
Which storage controller option will yield optimal performance?

A. Hugh queue depth

B. Set caching to 50% read on the controller

C. Enable battery write-back caching

D. RAID 0

An administrator is reviewing the root cause analysis of a failure event that resulted in vSAN Data Loss. The following information is known about the event:
1.	The RAID battery-replacing procedure on one of the first vSAN cluster node took much more time than the vSAN administrator predicted.
2.	The only Storage policy has a Primary level of Failures To Tolerate = 1.
3.	Whilst the first host was in maintenance mode, another node failure occurred, causing da-ta loss in the vSAN cluster.
The administrator needs to update the procedure for completing maintenance on the cluster.
Which Maintenance Mode option should the administrator choose to ensure that data loss does not occur in the future?

A. No data migration

B. Ensure accessibility

C. No data migration with selected option ‘Move powered-off and suspended virtual machines to other hosts in the cluster’

D. Full data migration

An administrator has an absent capacity disk.
Which action, if any, should the administrator take to resolve the problem?

A. Wait, and vSAN will rebuild it.

B. Replace the faulty disk.

C. Replace the faulty host.

D. Verify the host is not isolated.

An administrator is troubleshooting vSAN performance issues, and the performance diagnostics reports:
"There are errors seen in one or more physical NICs on one or more hosts."
Which two problems must be resolved to fix this issue? (Choose two.)

A. A 25 Gb/s NIC needs to be installed.

B. There are incompatible firmware and driver versions.

C. There is an incorrectly set MTU.

D. The vSAN version needs to be upgraded to 7.0.

E. A firewall is blocking ports.

An administrator is tasked to create a custom storage policy for workloads and is including additional disk stripes while defining the storage policy.
What is the main purpose of this practice?

A. To increase available storage space

B. To set a failure tolerance

C. To improve performance

D. To reconstruct corrupted data

During a vSAN design workshop, an architect collected the following customer requirements:
•	Reduce the impact of a disk failure on a vSAN capacity node.
•	Reduce the need for a rebuild upon a disk failure.
•	Achieve the best performance for application workloads.
•	Leverage the amount of available vSAN space efficiently.
The customer has already purchased all hardware and therefore the vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster is constrained to one Disk Group per node.
Which vSAN cluster option should the architect enable to meet these requirements?

A. Deduplication and Compression

B. Compression only

C. Data-at-rest encryption

D. Deduplication only

An architect is working with vSAN and setting the fault domains to support FTT=1.
How many fault domains will be needed?

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 1

An architect intends to use the Primary Level of Failures To Tolerate (PFTT) to calculate the minimum number of required hosts for a vSAN cluster.
Which calculation model should be used?

A. 1 * PFTT + 1

B. 2 * PFTT + 2

C. 1 * PFTT + 2

D. 2 * PFTT + 1

In a vSAN stretched cluster, which value must be set in the vSAN policy if there is no requirement for data mirroring across sites?

A. SFTT = 0

B. SFTT = 1

C. PFTT = 1

D. PFTT = 0

An administrator is tasked with preparing for a Cross vCenter migration in a stretched vSAN cluster where the virtual machines migration will be orchestrated via
VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Which action should the administrator take so the migration is successful?

A. Disable vSAN Deduplication and Compression

B. Reconfigure vCenter HA Admission control

C. Enable vCenter Single Sign-On Enhanced Linked Mode

D. Make sure that Witness traffic is on the management NIC.

An administrator has decided to switch the Preferred Fault Domain in a vSAN stretched cluster. Resynchronization activity increased drastically after this change.
Which action should the administrator take next time to avoid this problem?

A. Changing the Data locality setting to None

B. Adding additional hosts to both domains in existing vSAN cluster

C. Adding disks to hosts and creating additional disk groups

D. Putting all hosts from Secondary domain into maintenance mode

An administrator is tasked with setting up a disaster recovery solution on top of a standard vSAN cluster in the first site and a separate standard vSAN cluster in the secondary site. Costs are a constraint and should be kept to the absolute minimum.
Which solution fits this use case best?

A. VMware vSphere Replication

B. vSAN stretched cluster and VMware vSphere Replication

C. SRM and VMware vSphere Replication

D. Storage replication and SRM

An administrator would like to upgrade ten identically configured 2-node vSAN clusters from vSAN 6.7 U3 to vSAN 7.0 U1. Currently, each 2-node vSAN cluster is using a dedicated vSAN witness host appliance. As a result of the upgrade, the administrator would like to leverage the vSAN shared witness feature to reduce the resources being consumed.
In preparation for the first vSAN cluster upgrade, the administrator has completed the following tasks:
1. Upgraded vCenter Server to vCenter Server 7.0 U1.
2. vSphere High Availability (HA) has been disabled on the vSAN Cluster.
3. Upgraded the vSAN witness host appliance to vSphere 7.0 U1.
4. Upgraded both vSAN data nodes to vSphere 7.0 U1.
The key requirement is to ensure that backwards compatibility to the existing version of vSAN is maintained during the upgrade process.
Which three additional steps should the administrator complete to ensure that subsequent clusters can share the same vSAN Witness? (Choose three.)

A. Upgrade the vSAN On-Disk Format (ODF) to version 12.

B. Manually update the vSAN Witness with a vSAN 7 license key.

C. Update the vSAN cluster to use the new vSAN witness host appliance.

D. Configure the existing witness host appliance to act as a shared witness.

E. Deploy a new vSAN 7.0 U1 witness host appliance to act as a shared witness.

F. Upgrade the vSAN On-Disk Format (ODF) to version 13.

An organization has two vSAN clusters managed by the same vCenter server, each providing 100 TB of storage. The first cluster runs at 75% of its storage capacity, and the second cluster runs at 40% of its storage capacity.
The company also has the following:
•	an iSCSI array of 300 TB, which runs at 76% of its capacity
•	a NAS system of 200 TB, which runs at 10% of its capacity
•	a Fiber channel (FC) array of 300 TB, which runs at 80% of its capacity
The administrator is asked to add an additional 25 TB of storage to the first cluster but is also made aware that there is no budget to purchase new hardware and that the vSAN Storage Policy Based Management must be kept in place.
Which storage option will work for this use case?

A. Use the iSCSI array to obtain additional free capacity.

B. Use the NAS to obtain additional free capacity.

C. Use an HCI Mesh to obtain additional capacity.

D. Use the FC array to obtain additional free capacity.

An administrator is planning to deploy cloud-native workloads onto the vSAN Direct datastore.
Which storage policy structure rule is supported?

A. Host-based rules

B. vVOL storage rules

C. Tag-based placement rules

D. Storage performance-based rules

Which statement accurately describes the result when proper VM Storage Policy Affinity Rules on a stretched vSAN cluster are set?

A. When a site is disconnected, the VM will lose access to its VMDK.

B. When a site is disconnected, the VM will continue to have access to its VMDK.

C. Bandwidth is unnecessarily sent across the inter-site link.

D. Proper policies result in higher inter-site bandwidth utilization.

During a vSAN design workshop, the customer expressed the following requirements:
•	The ESXi hosts will have their disk related hardware changed to become vSAN nodes.
•	The default storage policy will be based on an FTT=2 (Failures to Tolerate).
•	The vSAN Primary level of failures to tolerate (PFTT) will be set to a value of 2.
Based on the request, the architect was shown the following information about the current cluster:
•	The number of existing ESXi hosts is 8.
•	vSphere High Availability (HA) Admission control set to 37.5%.
How does this information impact the vSAN cluster design?

A. Secondary level of failures to tolerate must be defined with a value of 2.

B. The current configuration is recommended for the vSAN transformation.

C. The vSphere HA Admission Control must be set to a maximum of 25%.

D. Proactive HA should be enabled on the vSAN cluster.

An administrator of `vsan-prod` cluster noticed the witness components of VMs are flagged as absent after a failed attempt to replace the vSAN Witness Host.
Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

A. Upgrading the vSAN on-disk format

B. Running the vSAN Skyline Health check to ensure there are vSAN Object Health errors and executing the Repair Object Immediately option

C. Using the RVC command: vsan.resync_dashboard ~/computers/vsan-prod

D. Placing the vSAN Witness Host in Maintenance Mode and adding to the vSAN cluster

Which three steps are required to decommission a stretched cluster and convert it to a standard vSAN cluster? (Choose three.)

A. Reinstall the ESXi hosts

B. Remove the Fault Domain configuration

C. Remove the vSAN partition schema on the disk groups

D. Delete the witness host VM

E. Repair the cluster objects

F. Disable and remove the stretched cluster

A cache disk failure marked a vSAN disk group as failed, and the data is being rebuilt on other disk groups.
Which action should the vSAN administrator take to reduce the negative impact on the VMs?

A. Enabling Resync Throttling

B. Enabling Maintenance mode with no data evacuation

C. Enabling automatic rebalance

D. Setting the vSAN policy’s IOPS limit for object value to 0 (unlimited)

An architect collected the below technical requirements from the customer during a vSAN cluster design workshop:
✑ Maximize the vSAN datastore usable capacity.
✑ Deduplication and compression are required to help utilize available capacity efficiency.
✑ Ensure the highest level of resiliency wherever possible.
Which disk group configuration should the architect include in the design?

A. One disk group per host, with one cache tier flash disk and four capacity tier flash disks.

B. Two disk groups per host, each with one cache tier flash disk and four capacity tier flash disks.

C. Two disk groups per host, each with one cache tier flash disk and six capacity tier flash disks.

D. Two disk groups per host, each with one cache tier flash disk and six capacity tier magnetic disks.

In a stretched vSAN cluster, how is Read Locality established after fail over to the secondary site?

A. 100% of the reads comes from vSAN hosts on the local site

B. 50% of the reads comes from vSAN hosts on the local site

C. 100% of the reads comes from vSAN hosts on the remote site

D. 50% of the reads comes from vSAN hosts on the remote site

An administrator wants to enable encryption on an existing vSAN cluster that already contains virtual machines.
Which additional step should the administrator take to ensure no data is lost during the encryption process?

A. Select ‘Erase disks before use’ check box when enabling encryption on a vSAN cluster.

B. Make vCenter Server trust the KMS, either by trusting the KMS or by uploading a KMS certificate.

C. Ensure that the vSAN Encryption is enabled by default on the existing cluster to encrypt old and new data.

D. Disable vSphere Distributed Resources Schedule (DRS) on the vSAN cluster.

During a planning session for new vSAN clusters in multiple data centers, the customer relayed the following information:
✑ Highest possible mitigation during a host failure in terms of capacity.
✑ A constraint in this year's IT budget.
What should the architect recommend?

A. Enable operations reserve. A minimum cluster of 3 vSAN nodes.

B. Enable host build reserve. A minimum cluster of 4 vSAN nodes.

C. Enable performance services. A minimum cluster of 6 vSAN nodes.

D. Enable IOInsight Metrics. A minimum cluster of 2 vSAN ROBO nodes.

An administrator is tasked with sharing storage from one vSAN cluster to another vSAN cluster. SPBM management must be preserved end-to-end, and the policy must be applied by the source vSAN cluster which is storing the data. Both vSAN clusters are managed by the same vCenter server.
What should the administrator configure?

A. NFS volumes on vSAN

B. iSCSI targets on vSAN

C. HCI Mesh on vSAN

D. vVOLs on vSAN

A 30-minute power maintenance window has been approved on Sunday. Due to a delay, the maintenance took 20 minutes longer to finish.
During this time, the vSAN administrator noticed that one of the clusters nodes was affected by a power shortage, as it was connected to an affected power source. The default vSAN storage policy has been applied.
What will be the status of the vSAN objects on the affected host immediately after it is recovered?

A. The cluster will be partitioned and the vSAN host will need to be rejoined.

B. A rebuild of the affected objects will occur.

C. All objects will remain accessible.

D. All objects on the affected host will be lost.

An administrator is setting up vSAN file services on a vSAN cluster but is unable to join the vSAN File Services to the domain.
Which two possible reasons could explain this failure? (Choose two.)

A. A read-only domain controller was being used.

B. The administrator did not pre-create a dedicated organizational unit in Active Directory.

C. The administrator wanted to register the file services to a sub-domain.

D. The administrator was using IP addresses from an IP pool.

E. The administrator was using pre-created computer objects for the file services in the Active Directory.

An administrator wants to deploy a desktop and application virtualization solution on top of vSAN.
Which VMware product should the administrator install?

A. VMware Dynamic Environment Manager

B. VMware Horizon Apps

C. VMware Workspace One Access

D. VMware Horizon

A company hosts a vSAN 7 stretched cluster for all development workloads. The original sizing of a maximum of 250 concurrent workloads in the vSAN cluster is no longer sufficient and needs to increase to at least 500 concurrent workloads within the next six months.
To meet this demand, the original 8-node (4-4-1) cluster has recently been expanded to 16 nodes (8-8-1).
Which three additional steps should the administrator take to support the current growth plans while minimizing the amount of resources required at the witness site? (Choose three.)

A. Add the new vSAN witness appliance to vCenter Server.

B. Deploy a new large vSAN witness appliance at the witness site.

C. Configure the vSAN stretched cluster to use the new vSAN witness.

D. Deploy a new extra large vSAN witness appliance at the witness site.

E. Upgrade the vSAN stretched cluster to vSAN 7.0 U1.

F. Configure the new vSAN witness as a shared witness appliance.

An administrator is setting up vSAN file services on a vSAN cluster.
Which two security policies on the distributed port groups are automatically enabled in the process? (Choose two.)

A. Forged Transmits

B. Promiscuous Mode

C. DVFiltering

D. Jumbo Frames

E. MacLearning

An organization has two vSAN clusters managed by the same vCenter Server, each providing 100TB of storage. The first cluster runs at 75% of its storage capacity, and the second cluster runs at 50% of its storage capacity.
The company also has the following:
✑ An iSCSI array of 300TB. which runs at 76% of its capacity
✑ A NAS system of 200TB, which runs at 10% of its capacity
✑ A Fiber channel (FC) array of 300TB, which runs at 80% of its capacity
The administrator is asked to add an additional 25TB of storage to the first cluster. The administrator is also made aware that there is no budget to purchase new hardware and that the vSAN Storage Policy Based Management must be kept in place.
Which storage option will work for this use case?

A. Create an HCI Mesh using the first cluster’s datastore.

B. Obtain additional free capacity from the existing NAS storage.

C. Obtain additional free capacity from the existing FC storage.

D. Create an HCI Mesh using the second cluster’s datastore.

An administrator has been tasked to reboot a node in an encrypted vSAN cluster. The vSAN disk groups on that node become locked after rebooting the node.
Which step should be performed to exit the locked state?

A. Manually replace the Host Encryption Key (HEK) of each affected host.

B. Restore the communication with the KMS server, and re-establish the trust relationship.

C. Replace the caching device in each affected disk group.

D. Run /etc/init.d/vsanvpd restart to rescan the VASA providers.

An administrator is setting up a clustered application and is concerned about the additional space requirements stemming from traditional vSAN storage and Failure to Tolerate (FTT) storage policies. The administrator would like to leverage a vSAN service for this clustered application that would not consume more storage than is actually required.
Which vSAN service should be used to meet this goal?

A. vSAN File services

B. vSAN iSCSI

C. vSAN Compression Only

D. VMware vSAN Direct

During a maintenance action on a vSAN node, a vSAN administrator noticed that the default repair delay time is about to be reached.
Which two commands must be run to extend the time? (Choose two.)

A. /etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd restart

B. esxcli system settings advanced set -o /VSAN/ClomRepairDelay -i 50

C. esxcli system settings advanced set -o /VSAN/ClomRepairDelay -i 80

D. /etc/init.d/clomd restart

E. /etc/init.d/vsanobserver restart

A company has deployed a 12-node (6-6-1) vSAN 7.0 stretched cluster for all production workloads.
The customer currently uses four different vSAN storage policies for running the workloads depending on the applications requirements:
✑ Policy 1 - Site Disaster Tolerance=Dual Site Mirroring, FTT=Erasure Coding
✑ Policy 2 - Site Disaster Tolerance=Dual Site Mirroring, FTT=Mirroring
✑ Policy 3 - Site Disaster Tolerance=None - Keep Data on Preferred, FTT=Mirroring
✑ Policy 4 - Site Disaster Tolerance=None - Keep Data on Non-Preferred, FTT=Mirroring
During the setup of the vSAN stretched cluster, the following VM/Host Rules were created:
✑ Preferred Site - Preferred Site workloads should run on DC1 hosts.
✑ Secondary Site - Secondary Site workloads should run on DC2 hosts.
Which two activities should the administrator complete to ensure that there is no impact to production services during the maintenance window in the Preferred
Site? (Choose two.)

A. Change the Site Disaster Tolerance setting in Policy 3 to be ג€Dual Site Mirroringג€.

B. Update vSphere DRS site affinity rules so that Preferred Site workloads should not run on hosts in DC1.

C. Change the Site Disaster Tolerance setting in Policy 4 to be ג€None – Keep Data on Preferredג€.

D. Change the FTT setting in Policy 3 to be ג€Erasure Codingג€.

E. Update vSphere DRS site affinity rules so that Preferred Site workloads must run on hosts in DC2.