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

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 is the minimum recovery point objective (RPO) that can be achieved using vSphere Replication with vSAN?

A. 5 minutes

B. 15 minutes

C. 30 minutes

D. 60 minutes

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

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

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%

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

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

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

Which fault tolerance method protects business data and achieves storage space efficiency?

A. RAID-0

B. RAID-1

C. RAID-5

D. RAID-10

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Refer to the exhibit.
 
A storage policy has been created for the 3-node vSAN cluster in the exhibit. A VM is deployed using this policy.
What is the expected behavior?

A. VM will be deployed but remain non-compliant.

B. VM will be deployed and is reported compliant.

C. Force provisioning will be turned off automatically.

D. VM deployment fails.

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

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

A. .vswp

B. .vmsn

C. .vmx

D. .vmem

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

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

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

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

A. reduced availability

B. active-stale

C. degraded

D. absent

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

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

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

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 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

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

What happens to a disk group during cache disk replacement?

A. goes offline

B. changes on-disk format

C. becomes degraded

D. remains online

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 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

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.

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 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 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

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

In a 10-node hybrid vSAN cluster, each node has seven 4TB magnetic disks and one 2TB SSD.
What is the raw storage capacity of the vSAN datastore?

A. 140TB

B. 150TB

C. 280 TB

D. 300 TB

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

What is the configured default time of vSAN Health?

A. 10 minutes

B. 15 minutes

C. 30 minutes

D. 60 minutes

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.

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