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?

The system will prompt to add an additional host to the cluster in order to preserve the policy compliance.

The host will enter in maintenance mode and the data will remain accessible until the host exits maintenance mode.

The system will prompt to add an additional host to the cluster in order to preserve the policy compliance.

The host will enter in maintenance mode and only data with no redundancy will remain accessible.

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.

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?

There will be no impact on performance.

The VMs will no longer be accessible.

The performance will be degraded.

The VMs will be in a suspended state.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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=MirroringDuring 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.)

Change the Site Disaster Tolerance setting in Policy 3 to be ''Dual Site Mirroring''.

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

Change the Site Disaster Tolerance setting in Policy 3 to be ''Dual Site Mirroring''.

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

Change the Site Disaster Tolerance setting in Policy 4 to be ''None - Keep Data on Preferred''.

Change the FTT setting in Policy 3 to be ''Erasure Coding''.

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

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?

Enable vCenter Single Sign-On Enhanced Linked Mode

Disable vSAN Deduplication and Compression

Reconfigure vCenter HA Admission control

Enable vCenter Single Sign-On Enhanced Linked Mode

Make sure that Witness traffic is on the management NIC.

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?

MTU 9K is not configured on the ToR switch.

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

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

MTU 9K is not configured on the ToR switch.

MTU 9K is not configured on the vDS switch.

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wait, and vSAN will rebuild it.

Verify the host is not isolated.

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.* The vSAN Cluster has the following configuration:- vSAN version: 6.6.1- Number of vSAN nodes: 10- Encryption: enabled- Deduplication and Compression: enabled- vSAN Capacity Utilization: 60%* Each vSAN node has the following configuration:- VMware vSphere ESXi version: 6.5 Update 3- CPU: 2 processors, 20 cores- RAM: 768GB RAM.- Disk: 2 Cache SSDs and 6 Capacity SSDs- Network: 4 x 10GbEWhich three recommendations should the consultant make to ensure all data remains protected in the event of a vSAN failure? (Choose three.)

The Full data migration maintenance mode option must be chosen to protect the data during the upgrade.

The upgrade process should be completed using host upgrade baselines in VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).

The vSAN nodes should be upgraded to vSphere ESXi 7.0 U1.

The Full data migration maintenance mode option must be chosen to protect the data during the upgrade.

The Ensure accessibility, migration maintenance mode option must be chosen to protect the data during the upgrade.

The upgrade process should be completed using host upgrade baselines in VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).

The vSAN nodes should be upgraded to vSphere ESXi 7.0 U1.

The upgrade process should be completed using images in VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).

The vSAN nodes should be upgraded to vSphere ESXi 6.7 U3.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.)

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

Upgrade to VMware vCenter Server 7.0 U1.

Choose the Allow reduced redundancy option.

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

Disable vSAN Encryption before starting the upgrade process.

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

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

Upgrade to VMware vCenter Server 7.0 U1.

Choose the Allow reduced redundancy option.

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?

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

Upgrading the vSAN on-disk format

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Replace the caching device in each affected disk group.

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

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 memoryWhich boot device is supported for the vSAN ESXi nodes for this customer?

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

A 4GB USB or SD device must be used.

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

ESXi Hosts must boot from a PMEM device.

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.)

Add the new vSAN witness appliance to vCenter Server.

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

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

Add the new vSAN witness appliance to vCenter Server.

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

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

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

Upgrade the vSAN stretched cluster to vSAN 7.0 U1.

Configure the new vSAN witness as a shared witness appliance.

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.)

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

The cluster DRS threshold has been set to Aggressive.

The vSAN Resync throttling is enabled.

The object repair timer value has been increased.

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

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?

vSAN performance service is turned off.

vSAN network diagnostic mode is not enabled.

vSAN proactive tests haven't been run yet.

vSAN performance service is turned off.

vSAN performance verbose mode is not enabled.

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.)

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

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

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

/etc/init.d/vsanobserver restart

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

VMware Dynamic Environment Manager

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.)

Create an encryption storage policy

Verify if a role with privilege ''Cryptographic operations.Encrypt new'' is assigned

Establish a trusted connection with the KMS

Create an encryption storage policy

Enable Data-In-Transit encryption first

Enable that the virtual machines are powered on

Verify if a role with privilege ''Cryptographic operations.Encrypt new'' is assigned

Verify if a role with privilege ''Cryptographic operations.Migrate'' is assigned

Establish a trusted connection with the KMS

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.)

Large packet losses and retransmissions on the network layer

One or more disk groups are congested

vSAN VMKemel portgroup is configured with the ''Route based on IP hash'' teaming policy

Large packet losses and retransmissions on the network layer

Incorrect sizing of the disk groups capacity disks

One or more disk groups are congested

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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 SSDWhich three steps should the administrator take to successfully complete the task? (Choose three.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

All objects will remain accessible.

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

A rebuild of the affected objects will occur.

All objects will remain accessible.

All objects on the affected host will be lost.

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Tag the vmk1 for Witness traffic.

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.)

Place the host in maintenance mode with Full Data migration

Delete the disk group(s) on the legacy host

Place the host in maintenance mode with Ensure Accessibility

Place the host in maintenance mode with Full Data migration

Place the host in maintenance mode with no data migration

Delete the disk group(s) on the legacy host

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?

Six nodes All-Flash vSAN cluster

Five nodes All-Flash vSAN cluster

Six nodes All-Flash vSAN cluster

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?

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

Select 'Erase disks before use' check box when enabling encryption on a vSAN cluster.

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

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

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

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 capacityThe 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?

Create an HCI Mesh using the second cluster's datastore.

Create an HCI Mesh using the first cluster's datastore.

Obtain additional free capacity from the existing NAS storage.

Obtain additional free capacity from the existing FC storage.

Create an HCI Mesh using the second cluster's datastore.

VMware 5V0-21.21 Practice Test 1 - Free Online Exam Prep & Questions

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?

Instant Clones

Linked Clones

Storage Tiers

Storage Profiles

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