An administrator is tasked with configuring vSAN Cloud Native Storage.Which two requirements must be met for a successful configuration? (Choose two.)

Minimum of vSphere 6.7 Update 3 or later

Compatible version of Kubernetes

Minimum of vSphere 6.7 Update 3 or later

Tanzu Enterprise License required

Minimum of vSphere 7.0 Update 2 or later

Compatible version of Kubernetes

When attempting to add a directly attached disk device to a host disk group, the intended disk does not show among the available devices in disk management.Which action should be taken?

Create a 1GB metadata partition

An administrator has discovered that space utilized by VMs does not decrease after deleting files and folders within the VMs. The administrator needs to be able to reclaim this space.Which action could the administrator take to accomplish this task?

Enable TRIM/UN MAP for the vSAN cluster.

Disable Storage I/O Control for the vSAN cluster.

Reboot the VM to recreate the swap file.

Set the Object Space Reservation rule to 100%.

Enable TRIM/UN MAP for the vSAN cluster.

Which two characteristics are associated with vSAN Data-In-Transit Encryption? (Choose two.)

Can be enabled independently of the vSAN Data-At-Rest encryption

Requires an external KMS in order to work

Needs specific configuration on the Network switches in order to be enabled

Can be enabled independently of the vSAN Data-At-Rest encryption

Needs to be enabled using vSAN Storage Policies

An administrator must choose between deploying a virtual witness or physical witness for a vSAN Stretched Cluster. The administrator eventually decides to use a virtual witness.What is a benefit of selecting this approach?

Additional compute capacity for running VMs

Shared metadata between separate clusters

Increased vSAN datastore capacity

Which two prerequisites are required before a vSAN administrator is able to use the vSAN Performance Diagnostics feature? (Choose two.)

The vSAN Performance Service must be enabled.

Participation in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) must be enabled.

The vSAN Performance Service must be enabled.

The vSAN Health Service must be turned on.

vSAN File Services must be disabled before running vSAN Performance Diagnostics.

Participation in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) must be enabled.

Verbose Mode must be enabled when configuring vSAN monitoring.

During yesterday’s business hours, a cache drive failed on one of the vSAN nodes. The administrator reached out to the manufacturer and received a replacement drive the following day. When the drive failed, vSAN started a resync to ensure the health of data, and all objects are showing a healthy and compliant state. The vSAN administrator needs to replace the failed cache drive.Which set of steps should the vSAN administrator take?

Remove the existing vSAN disk group, and physically replace the device. Then, check to verity that the ESXi host automatically detects the new device. Afterwards, manually recreate the Disk Group.

Physically replace the failed cache device, and vSAN will automatically create a new disk group.Then, remove the disk group with the failed device.

Physically replace the failed cache device, and vSAN will automatically allocate the storage. Then, rebalance the cache layer.

Place the disk group into maintenance mode, and select Full Data Migration. Then, physically replace the failed cache device. Afterwards. vSAN will rebuild the disk group automatically.

Which two conditions should be verified before removing an ESXi host from a vSAN cluster? (Choose two.)

ESXi host is in maintenance mode

Performance Service is disabled

ESXi host is in maintenance mode

A vSAN administrator is implementing deduplication and compression on a vSAN all-flash cluster but wants the VMs to remain operational. The details are as follows:There are 4 nodes in the vSAN cluster.Existing VMs use a RAID-5 storage policy.Which action should the vSAN administrator take to meet this goal?

Use the Allow Reduced Redundancy option.

Change the existing VM storage policy to RAID-6.

Use the Allow Reduced Redundancy option.

A vSAN administrator was presented with 30 additional vSAN ReadyNodes to add to an existing vSAN cluster. There is only one administrator to complete this task.What is the fastest approach?

Use a Host Profile that was extracted from an existing host.

Clone the ESXi boot partition to all new hosts, since the hardware is identical.

Run vim-cmd to capture, and apply the configuration from an existing host.

Launch Quickstart to Add Hosts to a vSAN Cluster

A vSAN administrator has a vSAN cluster that is using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to manage hypervisor, server drivers, and firmware. All hosts in the cluster are compliant according to the vLCM image.A 10GB NIC on the servers is experiencing issues, the vSAN administrator determines a new network driver will resolve the problem. Unfortunately, the required NIC driver is a newer version compared to the driver provided by the most recent Vendor Addon.Which action should the vSAN administrator take to ensure the latest network driver is installed on the NIC before remediation?

Add an individual component to the vLCM image that has the updated NIC driver.

Since server vendors release periodic server Vendor Addon updates, make sure the vLCM image is configured to use the most recent version of the vendor addon.

Modify the vLCM image to omit the NIC Driver, and then manually update the servers with the required NIC driver.

Remove the Vendor Addon from the vLCM image, and then manually install the network driver on the servers.

What are two purposes of a vSAN storage policy (Choose two.)

To define how the VM storage objects are provisioned

To guarantee the required level of service

To determine vSAN encryption level

To define how the VM storage objects are provisioned

To guarantee the required level of service

To enable deduplication and compression

Which two requirements should the vSAN administrator consider in order to accomplish this goal?(Choose two.)

A leaf spine topology is required for core redundancy and reduced latency.

The configuration must meet the same latency and bandwidth requirement as local vSAN.

A leaf spine topology is required for core redundancy and reduced latency.

NIC teaming must be implemented for the vSAN network vmkernel port.

The configuration must meet the same latency and bandwidth requirement as local vSAN.

Encryption must be disabled prior to configuring HCI mesh.

Either Layer 2 and Layer 3 communications can be used.

A new host with local storage devices has been added to a vSAN cluster. Now, the administrator would like to increase the capacity of the vSAN datastore.What must be done to the new host to accomplish this goal?

Delete all existing partitions.

Configure a RAID set on the storage controller.

Create one or more disk groups.

Delete all existing partitions.

Perform a storage device rescan.

The objects on a 4-node vSAN cluster are assigned a RAID-5 policy. A network outage occurs, causing host one to lose connectivity with the rest of the cluster. Seventy-five minutes have elapsed.What is the health state of the objects?

Reduced availability with no rebuild

Non-availability related incompliance (non-compliance)

Reduced availability with no rebuild - delay timer

Which two actions are recommended when adding a host to a vSAN cluster? (Choose two.)

Create uniformly-configured hosts.

Reference the VMware Compatibility Guide.

Disable vSphere High Availability (HA).

Create uniformly-configured hosts.

Reference the VMware Compatibility Guide.

Disable vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS).

Disable vSAN performance service.

An existing vSAN cluster has this specification:Four ESXi hosts with all flash configurationEach with two disk groupsEach disk group with one cache device and four capacity devicesThere are five more device slots availableThe CTO would like to provision new applications, and these will need more capacity and performance.Which two methods may be used by the vSAN administrator to meet this goal? (Choose two.)

Adding one more disk group per host with the same configuration

Adding an ESXi host with identical device configuration

Adding one more disk group per host with the same configuration

Replacing all cache devices by a larger device

Adding an ESXi host with identical device configuration

Replacing all capacity devices by a larger device

An administrator wants to check the vSAN cluster health during the maintenance window while vCenter Server is offline.What are two ways to complete this task? (Choose two.)

ESXi system logs on vSAN datastore

Which Storage Policy Structure Rule is supported by vSAN Direct Datastore?

Enable tag/capacity-based placement rules

Enable storage performance-based rules

A vSAN administrator was examining the status of Virtual Objects and found inaccessible objects that are occupying significant storage capacity.Refer to the exhibit: Which action is needed to restore the storage capacity?

Identity and remove the obsolete object.

Evacuate data on affected node by using the Full Data Migration mode.

Identity and remove the obsolete object.

Restart the host, and obsolete objects will be removed on their own.

Trigger a manual resync, and allow vSAN to heal the object.

After a recent security assessment, the security team recommended that vSAN encryption be enabled. The vSAN administrator will be adding a Key Management Server to vCenter.What is a prerequisite to taking this action?

Cryptographer ManageKeyServer permissions

Proxy server with username and password access

Cryptographer ManageKeyServer permissions

A vSAN administrator is using the vSAN ReadyNode Sizer to build a new environment. While entering the cluster configurations, a fellow colleagues inquire about the Operations Reserve option.What is the purpose of using this option?

Provides space for internal operations

Configures space for external operations

Provides space for internal operations

Reserves space for tolerating failures

Allocates space forvSAN upgrades

A customer is running a number of compute-intensive application workloads on their existing 4-node vSAN cluster that has resulted in resource contention. To provide additional compute resources, the vSAN administrator has decided to deploy a new 4-node vSAN compute-only cluster so that a HCI Mesh can be configured.Which three points would the vSAN administrator need to consider before using this configuration?(Choose three.)

A storage policy of Mirroring with FIT 1 would be supported.

A storage policy of Erasure Coding with hi 1=1 would be supported.

The storage policy must be based on the number of hosts within the server cluster.

The storage policy must be based on the number of hosts within the client cluster.

The storage policy is based on the total number of hosts across both client and server clusters.

A storage policy of Erasure Coding with FTT=2 would be supported.

A storage policy of Mirroring with FIT 1 would be supported.

A storage policy of Erasure Coding with hi 1=1 would be supported.

The storage policy must be based on the number of hosts within the server cluster.

A vSAN administrator has been tasked with troubleshooting an application in a Hybrid vSAN environment. The application is I/O intensive, and the magnetic capacity devices may be playing a role in slow performance, so the administrator decides to take action to help resolve the problem.Which action should the administrator take?

Increase the stripe width based on the number of capacity devices within the disk group.

Change the Default Storage Policy to have stripe width of 13.

Modify the stripe width for the application on the advanced settings for the VM.

Add more magnetic capacity devices in the affected host.

Increase the stripe width based on the number of capacity devices within the disk group.

An administrator has deployed a development VMware vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster. It will be used by the development teams to deploy a mixture of cloud-native stateful applications alongside a combination virtual machine and Kubernetes workloads.Which vSAN feature should be configured for the vSAN Data Persistence platform (vDPp)?

vSAN with Shared Nothing Architecture (SNA)

Skyline Health vSAN HCL DB up-to-date health check is alerting in red in a newly deployed vCenter Server.Which two options are the possible solutions for this problem? (Choose two.)

Obtain the HCL DB offline bundle from vmware.com, and manually update it.

Update the HCL DB online from vmware.com.

Obtain the HCL DB offline bundle from vmware.com, and manually update it.

Upgrade to the latest version of vCenter.

Upgrade the HCL DB from the hardware vendor website.

Obtain the HCL DB from the hardware vendor, and manually update it.

Update the HCL DB online from vmware.com.

A new vSAN Cluster with four hosts has to be designed for a single site architecture.Which design decision is correct?

Only hardware listed on the VMware Compatibility Guide will be deployed.

All the data must remain accessible even with two host failures.

Configure the storage controllers to use RAID.

Use block-based storage for the newvSAN cluster.

Only hardware listed on the VMware Compatibility Guide will be deployed.

The Resyncing Objects view in the vCenter UI reports that some objects are currently resyncing.Which two actions would cause this situation? (Choose two.)

A host failure occurs in the cluster.

A change to the storage policy is applied to the objects.

DRS is relocating VMs between vSAN nodes.

HA Virtual Machine Monitoring forced a VM to reboot.

A host failure occurs in the cluster.

A change to the storage policy is applied to the objects.

A VM snapshot is being deleted.

A vSAN administrator has recently upgraded a vSAN cluster to 7.0 U1 and has enabled Capacity Reserve features to reduce the amount of capacity reserved for transient and rebuild operations.Which scenario would prevent this feature from operating properly?

The used space on vSAN datastore exceeds the suggested host rebuild threshold.

The physical disk has reached an 80% full reactive rebalance threshold.

The used space on vSAN datastore exceeds the suggested slack rebuild threshold.

The used space on vSAN datastore exceeds the suggested host rebuild threshold.

Underutilized space is above 25-30% of the total capacity threshold.

A vSAN administrator notices the VMware Skyline Health: Network Latency Check reports indicate three hosts are non-compliant.Which action should the vSAN administrator take?

Check VMKNICs, uplinks. VLANs. physical switches, and associated settings.

Reboot the noncompliant hosts one at a time.

Rerun the VMware Skyline Health: vSAN Cluster Partition report.

Place the noncompliant hosts into an isolated network.

Check VMKNICs, uplinks. VLANs. physical switches, and associated settings.

An administrator is responsible for managing a 5-node vSAN 7.0 cluster that hosts 150 virtual machines. Each virtual machine belongs to one of the following vSAN Storage Policies: vSANPolicy1:Site Disaster Tolerance: NoneFailures to Tolerate: 1 failure - RAIN5 (Erase Coding) vSANPolicy2:Site Disaster Tolerance: NoneFailures to Tolerate: No data redundancyFollowing an unplanned power event within the datacenter, the administrator has been alerted to the fact that one host has permanently failed. Prior to the vSAN host failure, the usable storage capacity of the vSAN Cluster was more than 40%.What will be the potential impact to any virtual machine that was running on the failed host using vSANPolicy2?

Each virtual machine will need to be restored from backup.

vSAN will immediately start the recovery process.

Each virtual machine will be restarted on another vSAN host using vSphere HA.

After 60 minutes, vSAN will automatically start the recovery process.

Each virtual machine will need to be restored from backup.

VMware 5V0-22.21 Practice Test 1 - Free Online Exam Prep & Questions

A vSAN administrator, who has a cluster that has both compute-only and vSAN ReadyNodes, recently received a request to deploy a new application with higher storage performance requirements than what are currently available.

What are two ways the administrator can reconfigure the vSAN cluster to obtain this additional performance? (Choose two.)

A.

Add additional hosts, with capacity devices only, and then stream the cache from the other hosts.

B.

Add cache and capacity devices to the compute-only hosts.

C.

Add additional cache and capacity devices to the existing data nodes.

D.

Add additional compute-only hosts from the vSAN cluster.

E.

Add to the existing disk groups two cache devices and the eight capacity devices.

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