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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
Question 2
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
Question 3
An architect needs to automate an infrastructure that supports VMware Horizon as well as
VMware Tanzu.
Which solution mandates the use of VMware vSAN?
Question 4
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
AE
Question 5
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.
Question 6
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?
Question 7
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.)
ABC
Question 8
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.)
BE
Question 9
An administrator wants to check the performance metrics for the workloads and their virtual disks
that are running on a vSAN cluster, but no statistical charts are displayed in the vSphere client.
Why is this behavior being seen?
C
Question 10
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
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Question 11
An administrator wants to deploy a desktop and application virtualization solution on top of vSAN.
Which VMware product should the administrator install?
Question 12
An administrator has been tasked with enabling encryption for existing virtual machines on a vSAN
cluster.
Which three prerequisites must be satisfied before completing the task? (Choose three.)
ADF
Question 13
Upon checking the latency goal under vSAN performance diagnostics, the vSAN Administrator sees
this message displayed:
The increase in latency in the vSAN stack might be beyond expected limits.
Which two root causes can be identified to help remediate the issue? (Choose two.)
A. vSAN VMKemel portgroup is configured with the ג€Route based on IP hashג€ teaming
policy
B. vSAN encryption is enabled
C. Large packet losses and retransmissions on the network layer
D. Incorrect sizing of the disk groups capacity disks
E. One or more disk groups are congested
CE
Question 14
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. Most Voted
D. Highlight the required number of nodes required for the vSAN cluster as a constraint.
Question 15
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. Most Voted
B. Replace the failed disk with a storage device that is identical in class and capacity. Most
Voted
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. Most Voted
F. Remove the affected Disk from the Disk Group, and choose Full Data Migration.
ABE
Question 16
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.
Question 17
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. Most Voted
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. Most Voted
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.
AC
Question 18
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?
Question 19
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.)
CEF
Question 20
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?
B
Question #21Topic 1
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
Question 22
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.
B
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Question 23
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?
Question 24
Which statement accurately describes the result when proper VM Storage Policy Affinity Rules on a
stretched vSAN cluster are set?
Question 25
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?
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?
Question27
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.)
CDF
Question 28
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.
Question 29
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?
Question 30
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.
C
Question 31
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
A
Question 32
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
Question 33
An administrator managing a vSAN cluster of six-nodes with policy FTT-2/RAID-6 decided to put
one of the nodes in maintenance mode using the `Full-data migration` option.
What will happen after this action is taken?
A. The host will enter in maintenance mode and the data will remain accessible until the
host exits maintenance mode.
B. The system will prompt to add an additional host to the cluster in order to preserve the
policy compliance.
C. The host will enter in maintenance mode and only data with no redundancy will remain
accessible.
D. The host will enter into maintenance mode if both components of a certain object are
residing on that host, then one of the components will be moved to another available host.
B
Question 34
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?
Question 35
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
Question 36
B
Question 37
A customer is planning to migrate their physical Microsoft SQL Server clustered workloads to
vSAN enabled vSphere clusters.
The following requirements must be met:
✑ Each MSSQL cluster is made up of 3 nodes
✑ Highest possible availability against node failures
✑ Some of the vSAN clusters will only consume storage
What should the architect recommend?
Question 38
A company has engaged a consultant to upgrade an existing vSAN cluster to vSAN 7.0 U1.
During the discovery phase, the consultant found the following information about the existing
environment:
✑ The VMware vCenter Server has recently been upgraded from VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 to
version 7.0 U1.
✑ The vSAN Cluster was recently expanded with identical hardware specification, but from a
different hardware vendor.
The hardware for each vSAN node is listed on the vSAN Compatibility Guide (VCG) for vSAN 7.
ACD
BCD
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Question 39
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?
Question 40
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.
AEF
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Question 41
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?
Question 42
Question 43
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
Question 44
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
A
Question 45
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).
Question 46
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.
AE
Question 47
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?
Question 48
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?
Question 49
An architect is designing a new Hybrid five node vSAN cluster for a customer who is planning to
use vRealize Automation to provision 600 virtual machines into that cluster, with expected growth
up to 1,000 VM. Each VM has a 40GB thick-provisioned disk.
Which flash disk size is required for the cache tier per ESXi node to meet all requirements?
A. 400GB
B. 700GB
C. 600GB
D. 800GB
Question 50
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?
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