Which description is a valid use case for an administrator to configure an HCI Mesh?

A. Share storage hosted by or on a vSAN cluster, and each client vSAN cluster must mount a maximum of five remote vSAN datastores.

B. Share storage hosted by or on a vSAN cluster that must be applied to different vSAN SPBM policies for different client clusters.

C. Share storage hosted by or on a vSAN cluster to six or more client clusters.

D. Share storage hosted by or on a vSAN cluster to more than 64 hosts, including both local and remote hosts connected.

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 vSAN administrator noticed that in the case of a preferred site failure in a vSAN stretched cluster, VMs having different restart priorities assigned to them are starting up automatically at almost the same time in the secondary site.
Which two steps should be performed to ensure that the VMware vSphere HA will proceed with the next VM restart priority only when the previous VM group has loaded the operating system? (Choose two.)

A. Change “DRS automation level” to “Partially automated”.

B. Install VMware Tools on all VMs, if not yet installed.

C. Change the “VM dependency restart condition” to “Guest Heartbeats”.

D. Change “VM restart priority condition timeout” to 4 minutes.

E. Change the “VM dependency restart condition” to “Resource allocation”.

Upon investigating a workload performance issue, a vSAN administrator observed a high backend IOPs on a vSAN cluster.
Which two causes explain this behavior? (Choose two.)

A. The cluster DRS threshold has been set to Aggressive.

B. There is a vSAN node failure.

C. The vSAN Resync throttling is enabled.

D. The object repair timer value has been increased.

E. The vSAN policy protection level has changed from FTT=0 to FTT=1.

An administrator is planning to change a vSAN Storage Policy to apply a Failures To Tolerate (FTT) of 2, using RAID-6.
What is the minimum number of vSAN nodes required?

A. 6

B. 4

C. 5

D. 8

An architect is tasked to design a VMware Horizon Solution with vSAN. The architect needs to use a solution to host the user's profile shares in a highly available manner, and it must be guest OS independent.
Which solution will match these requirements?

A. Cluster out of the box

B. Cluster in a box

C. NFS on vSAN

D. iSCSI on vSAN

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 administrator is tasked with setting up HCI mesh between the following two vSAN clusters:
•	Cluster 1 uses FTT=1 via mirroring
•	Cluster 2 uses FTT=1 via Erasure Coding
The administrator configures Cluster 2 as the cluster that is contributing storage to HCI mesh.
Which FTT applies to objects created on Cluster 1 when using the HCI Mesh shared storage?

A. HCI mesh always uses FTT = 1.

B. HCI Mesh always uses the default vSAN policy from the target site.

C. HCI Mesh always uses the source vSAN cluster to set its policy.

D. HCI mesh always uses FTT = 0.

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.

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.

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.

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 wants to deploy Kubernetes on an end-to-end VMware stack, using VMware vSAN for storage.
Which VMware product should the administrator install as the Kubernetes platform choice?

A. VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

B. VMware Tanzu Data services

C. VMware Tanzu Build service

D. VMware Tanzu Mission Control

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 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

An administrator has noticed that a number of the virtual machines in the preferred site are showing as either failed or partitioned.
In which two ways would the administrator expect the virtual machines to respond? (Choose two.)

A. They will be disconnected.

B. They will be restarted in the secondary site.

C. They will be restarted at the preferred site.

D. They will be powered off.

E. They will be removed from inventory.

During a vSAN design workshop, an architect collected these customer requirements:
✑ Leverage vSAN storage policies with Erasure Coding.
✑ Enable Deduplication and Compression.
✑ Use the minimum number of hosts in the cluster.
✑ Maintain full storage policy compliance when two nodes are down.
Which vSAN cluster design meets the customer's requirements?

A. Five nodes All-Flash vSAN cluster

B. Six nodes All-Flash vSAN cluster

C. Six nodes Hybrid vSAN cluster

D. Five nodes Hybrid vSAN cluster

After a vSAN Witness Appliance network configuration, the vSAN administrator notices that vSAN traffic flows from vmk0 (Management Traffic) rather than vmk1
(vSAN Traffic).
Which step should be taken to resolve this issue?

A. Configure vmk0 with IP address on the same range as that of vmk1.

B. Tag the vmk0 for vSAN traffic.

C. Configure vmk1 with IP address on the different network than that of vmk0.

D. Tag the vmk1 for Witness traffic.

An architect needs to automate an infrastructure that supports VMware Horizon as well as VMware Tanzu.
Which solution mandates the use of VMware vSAN?

A. VMware Cloud Foundation

B. VMware Horizon

C. VMware Tanzu

D. VMware vRealize Automation

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 designing a vSAN cluster where the hosts have more than 512 GB of memory.
Which two boot devices are recommended for these hosts? (Choose two.)

A. USB

B. PMEM

C. SD

D. Disk Device

E. SATADOM

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 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.

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.

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”.

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

A faulty disk was not cleanly removed from the vSAN cluster when being replaced.
Which action should be taken to resolve the problem and restore the vSAN cluster to a healthy state?

A. Delete and recreate the disk group.

B. Reboot the host to clear the lock.

C. Rescan the SCSI adapter to clear the lock.

D. Ignore the errors, and add the new disk into the disk group.

An administrator has received an alert indicating that a single capacity device is close to failing within the production vSAN Cluster. The administrator must now complete preemptive maintenance on the vSAN Cluster without impacting the availability of workloads or vSAN File Services.
The following information is known about the vSAN Cluster:
✑ vSAN 7.x Cluster
✑ vSAN node count: 8
✑ De-Duplication and Compression: Enabled.
✑ Encryption: Disabled
Current Utilization: 45%
 
✑ Disk Groups: 2
✑ Devices per node: 2 x 400 GB SSD, 6 x 1.8 TB SSD
Which three steps should the administrator take to successfully complete the task? (Choose three.)

A. Remove the affected Disk Group from the vSAN Cluster, and choose Full Data Migration.

B. Replace the failed disk with a storage device that is identical in class and capacity.

C. Remove the affected Disk Group from the vSAN Cluster, and choose No Data Migration.

D. Replace the failed disk with a storage device that is identical in class but smaller in capacity.

E. Put the affected vSAN host into maintenance mode to physically replace the storage device.

F. Remove the affected Disk from the Disk Group, and choose Full Data Migration.

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 is planning to deploy workloads on a six node vSAN cluster, and all nodes are distributed equally across three racks.
Which action is required to ensure that the workload VMs remain compliant with the default vSAN policy after a complete rack failure?

A. Add an additional rack with two hosts, and configure vSAN with four fault domains and FTT=1 (erasure coding).

B. Add two additional hosts per rack, and configure vSAN with three fault domains and FTT=1.

C. Add an additional host per rack, and configure vSAN with three fault domains and FTT=2.

D. Add an additional rack with two hosts, and configure vSAN with four fault domains and FTT=1 (mirroring).

A company has engaged a consultant to upgrade an existing vSAN cluster to vSAN 7.0 U1. The company wants to ensure that the same vSAN process can be used in the future.
During the discovery phase, the consultant found the following information about the existing environment:
✑ The vCenter Server is currently version 7.0.
✑ The vSAN Cluster has the following configuration:
- vSAN version: 7.0
- Number of vSAN nodes: 6
- Encryption: enabled
- Deduplication and Compression: enabled
- Fault Domains: 1
- vSAN Capacity Utilization: 60%
✑ Each vSAN node has the following configuration:
- ESXi version: VMware vSphere 7.0
- CPU: 2 processors, 20 cores
- RAM: 1024GB RAM.
- Disk: 2 Cache SSDs and 6 Capacity SSDs
- Network: 4 x 10GbE
✑ All current hardware (which is from a single vendor) is listed on the vSAN Compatibility Guide for vSAN 7.
Which three recommendations should the consultant make to ensure that the vSAN cluster upgrade is completed? (Choose three.)

A. Upgrade all vSAN nodes to VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 using the baselines capability within VMware Update Manager (VUM).

B. Disable vSAN Encryption before starting the upgrade process.

C. Upgrade all vSAN nodes to VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 using the images capability within VMware Update Manager (VUM).

D. Set VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) to partially automated.

E. Upgrade to VMware vCenter Server 7.0 U1.

F. Choose the Allow reduced redundancy option.

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.

As a part of a network hardware refresh project, all the network switches have been replaced with a newer, high-performance model. After the replacement, the company users started experiencing slowness on the applications hosted on their vSAN-backed VMs.
The vSAN administrator checked the vSAN Network Health status and noticed that the "Hosts large ping test" has failed.
What could be the cause of this performance degradation issue?

A. MTU 9K is not configured on the hosts vSAN vMKernel ports.

B. MTU 9K is not configured on the hosts VMnic ports.

C. MTU 9K is not configured on the ToR switch.

D. MTU 9K is not configured on the vDS switch.

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.

A vSAN cluster recently experienced a network partition due to a major network outage. The system administrator noticed that:
•	The virtual machines running on the vSAN cluster remained powered on all hosts.
•	When the network was restored, some VMs were duplicated between the different ESXi hosts.
What should the administrator check to prevent this from happening again?

A. vSphere HA Admission Control

B. vSphere DRS Advanced Parameters

C. Proactive HA Failures and Responses

D. vSphere HA Advanced Parameters

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

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

During a vSAN design workshop, the infrastructure team highlighted the need to ensure the availability and resiliency of the vSAN network for their production clusters. Each ESXi host is connected to the TOR switches with two 1 GB physical adapters. The physical network fabric is using a spine-leaf architecture.
These subnets are available for the ESXi hosts:
•	Subnet A: 192.168.10.0/24
•	Subnet B: 192.168.20.0/24
Which three strategies can the architect suggest to satisfy these customer requirements? (Choose three.)

A. Configure MTU 9K jumbo frame on the hosts and leaf switches.

B. Configure NIC teaming.

C. Replace the server NICs with 10 GB ones.

D. Add one vSAN VMKernel port to subnet B.

E. Add one vSAN VMKernel port to subnet A.

F. Add two vSAN VMKernel ports to subnet A.

An architect is currently working with a customer to transform their existing ESXi hosts to vSAN nodes. The customer expressed the following requirements.
•	First phase will transform 50% of the hosts to a hybrid vSAN nodes.
•	Second phase will transform the remaining 50% hosts to an All-Flash vSAN nodes.
The following constraint exists:
•	Each host has a 4-port x 1 GbE network interface.
Which two recommendations should the architect make to align with the customer's requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Hybrid vSAN clusters can have shared 1 GbE network adapters.

B. All-Flash vSAN clusters must have dedicated 10 GbE network adapters.

C. Hybrid vSAN clusters must have dedicated 1 GbE network adapters.

D. All-Flash vSAN clusters can have shared 10 GbE network adapters.

E. Hybrid vSAN clusters must have dedicated 10 GbE network adapters.

A vSAN policy has been configured with Erasure Coding on a vSAN stretched cluster.
Which RAID level and FTT setting have been specified?

A. SFTT with RAID1

B. PFTT with RAID1

C. PFTT with RAID5/6

D. SFTT with RAID5/6

An 8-Node vSAN Stretched Cluster (4+4+1) with a single disk group has a policy with PFTT=1 (mirrored across sites) and SFTT=1/FTM Mirroring (Local
Protection) configured.
The administrator has been alerted that there is a problem with the cluster. The following has been observed:
✑ The vSAN Witness Host is offline.
✑ Two disk failures on two hosts have occurred in the preferred site.
This has resulted in a critical production virtual machine's vmdk becoming inaccessible.
Which step needs to be performed by the administrator to resolve the issue?

A. Replace all failed disks on the preferred site.

B. Replace the vSAN Witness Host

C. Replace access to the existing vSAN Witness Host

D. Replace only one failed disk on the preferred site.

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%

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 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.

Due to the success of the recently deployed developer-only private cloud solution, a company has a new requirement to at least double the usable capacity in their all-flash vSAN cluster.
The vSAN cluster is deployed into a co-located datacenter that is owned by a third-party hosting company. The hosting company charges a fixed monthly cost for rack space and power consumption. The service owner has been given a limited budget for additional hardware purchases, but not for on-going co-location costs.
The current vSAN cluster has the following configuration:
✑ 10 vSAN Nodes with 2 CPUs (20 cores), 512 GB RAM
✑ 1 Disk Group per vSAN node
- 1 x 400 GB
- 4 x 1.8 TB
✑ De-duplication and Compression is enabled.
✑ vSAN Capacity is currently:
- Total: 72 TB
- Usable: ~40 TB (FTT1/RAID1) and ~60 TB (FTT1/RAID5).
As a result of any action taken, the service owner would like to ensure that overall availability of the vSAN cluster is increased.
Which two recommendations meet the requirement to increase capacity while maintaining service availability? (Choose two.)

A. Install an additional 400 GB SSD and 4 x 1.8 TB SSDs per vSAN node.

B. Update the existing Disk Group, and claim the newly installed drives for each node.

C. Create a new Disk Group, and claim the newly installed cache and capacity SSD drives for each node.

D. Install an additional 3 x 1.8 TB SSDs per vSAN node.

E. Replace existing SSDs with an 800 GB SSD and 4 x 3.8 TB SSDs per vSAN node.

While a vSAN administrator is deploying new VMs on a vSAN stretched cluster, the secondary site fails. The vSAN displays the following warning while trying to deploy those VMs:
'Datastore does not match current VM policy'.
Which step should be performed to provision the new VMs?

A. Provision VMs with ‘Force Provisioning’ rule enabled.

B. Provision VMs with the ‘Number of disk stripes per object’ set to 2.

C. Provision VMs with the ‘Object space reservation’ set to 50% reservation.

D. Provision VMs with a vSAN Default Storage Policy.

Due to an update in their security requirements, an organization is no longer compliant because the metadata traffic between hosts in their vSAN cluster is not being encrypted.
Which step must be taken by the administrator to meet the new security requirements?

A. Enable vMotion encryption on the vSAN cluster.

B. Enable virtual machine encryption on the vSAN cluster.

C. Enable Data-At-Rest Encryption on the vSAN cluster.

D. Enable Data-In-Transit Encryption on the vSAN 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 is reviewing a vSAN cluster that has an unbalanced cluster configuration.
Which behavior will the architect observe?

A. Consistent maintenance procedures

B. Reduced predictability of storage performance

C. Reduced deduplication capabilities

D. Faster rebuild times

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.