A vSAN administrator wants to upgrade a 4-node vSAN Cluster from version 7.0 to the latest version available. The vSAN administrator would like to complete the upgrade as a single task, including firmware and drivers for its hardware.Which action must the administrator take in order to be able to perform the upgrade?

Use vLCM images within Lifecycle Manager in vCenter.

Configure vSphere Update Manager (VUM).

Migrate the workloads to allow the firmware to be upgraded.

Install the new VMware LCM tool.

Use vLCM images within Lifecycle Manager in vCenter.

A vSAN administrator has been provided hardware to create the vSAN infrastructure. AH six SSD devices per host are on the VMware HCL. The administrator wants to use the disk group configuration that would maximize the amount of vSAN cache available and help provide better storage performance for the new development workloads.Which disk group configuration should be used?

3 disk groups with 2 disks in each disk group configuration

A single disk group with 6 disks in the configuration

3 disk groups with 2 disks in each disk group configuration

2 disk groups with 3 disks in each disk group configuration

6 disk groups with 1 disk in each disk group configuration

A vSAN Administrator has a cluster of six vSAN nodes. The vSAN datastore was 55% utilized, and due to a power outage, one node was lost. The vSAN administrator needs to resolve the storage policy compliance for the virtual machines on RAID-5.Which action, if any, needs to be taken to meet this goal?

Change the RAID-5 FTT from 2 to 1.

No action is needed since vSAN automatically rebuilds the objects.

The one failed node must be restored.

Trigger vSAN object repair from ESXCLI.

Change the RAID-5 FTT from 2 to 1.

An administrator needs an esxcli system command that will place a vSAN host into maintenance mode using the "Ensure Accessibility" option.Which esxcli system command, if any, will work?

#esxcli system MaintenanceMode set -enable true -e ensureObjectAccessibility true.

There are no esxcli commands for MaintenanceMode.

#esxcli system maintenanceMode set -enable true -m ensureObjectAccessibility.

#esxcli system MaintenanceMode set -enable true -e ensureObjectAccessibility true.

#esxcli system maintenanceMode set -enable false -m ensureObjectAccessibility.

What are two prerequisites for using the TRIM and UNMAP capability of vSAN? (Choose two.)

The VM guest operating system supports ATA TRIM or SCSI UNMAP capability.

The vSAN cluster is an all-flash architecture.

The VM guest operating system supports ATA TRIM or SCSI UNMAP capability.

The vSAN cluster is an all-flash architecture.

Change the Object Space Reservation to 100.

Deduplication and compression are enabled.

A vSAN Administrator would like to save some space on workloads that do not take advantage of deduplication techniques by leveraging vSAN Compression only.Which set of requirements should be met?

vSAN cluster must be at version 7.0 U2 or later and have at least vSAN Standard license in order to enable Compression only.

vSAN Deduplication and Compression must be enabled together, have vSAN version 6.6 or later, and have at least vSAN Enterprise license.

vSAN cluster must be at version 7.0 U1 or later and have at least vSAN Advanced license in order to enable Compression only.

vSAN Compression only feature is only available with VMC on AWS, so use VMware HCX to migrate such workloads to VMC on AWS.

vSAN cluster must be at version 7.0 U2 or later and have at least vSAN Standard license in order to enable Compression only.

A vSAN administrator wishes to implement HCI mesh between two clusters that are located in geographically separate data centers.Which recommendation should the vSAN administrator make for this configuration?

Both Layer 2 and Layer 3 communications are supported.

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

vSAN encryption must be disabled prior to configuring HCI mesh.

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

Both Layer 2 and Layer 3 communications are supported.

An vSAN administrator is relying on vSAN Stretched Clusters to protect against entire-site failures.How is this protection accomplished?

By placing redundant components at both sites

By synchronizing virtual machine data from the witness site

By using asynchronous data transfer

An administrator has been tasked with upgrading existing vSAN hosts with multiple SSD cache devices per host to NVMe devices (hot plug).Which fact should guide the administrator's action?

The disk group does not need to be removed before adding new cache.

The cache disk drives must have a larger capacity.

The host must be removed from vSAN cluster before changing cache devices.

The disk group must be deleted on each physical host in the cluster to use the NVMe device.

An administrator is deploying a new 2-node vSAN cluster with a shared witness to a remote location.Which requirement must be met?

The ESXi host's drives must be configured in RAID 1 to support Failures to Tolerate of 1.

The ESXi host's controller cache and advanced features must be disabled.

The ESXi host's drives must be configured in RAID 1 to support Failures to Tolerate of 1.

The ESXi hosts must have SSDs or NVMe configured for Virtual Flash File System.

The ESXi hosts must have a minimum of 64 GBs of memory.

A group of virtual machines have the vSAN Default Storage Policy assigned to them. This policy has not been modified from its default settings to date. The vSAN administrator would like to reduce the amount of storage capacity consumed by these virtual machines.Which action will produce this result?

Assign a policy with "Object space reservation" set to "50%" to the virtual machines.

Assign a new policy with "Failures to tolerate" set to "1-Failure - RAID-5 (Erasure Coding)" to the virtual machines.

Assign a policy with "Object space reservation" set to "50%" to the virtual machines.

Reduce the "Number of disk stripes per object" from 3 to 2 in the vSAN Default Storage Policy.

Set "Failures to tolerate" in the vSAN Default Storage Policy to "2-Failures - RAID-1 (Mirroring)".

A vSAN administrator is investigating vSAN performance related problems but cannot find any vSAN performance statistics on the cluster summary page.Why is this situation occurring?

vSAN Performance service is not enabled.

The administrator has read-only permissions on the cluster level.

vSAN Performance service is not enabled.

The vRealize Operations Manager is not integrated with vSAN cluster.

vSAN statistics are only available via CLI.

An administrator is preparing maintenance on a host in a vSAN cluster, and the maintenance is expected to take less than one hour. The administrator is considering using the "Full Data Migration" but understands that this can be time consuming and also has additional capacity and performance considerations.Which action would alleviate these concerns?

Use maintenance mode with "No Data Migration".

Use maintenance mode with "Ensure Accessibility".

Use maintenance mode with "Ensure Accessibly", and increase the vSAN object repair timer to more than one hour.

Take an outage window when users are less likely to be working.

After merging the IT infrastructure of two enterprises, the vSAN administrator was tasked to add one ESXi host with no disks to one of the existing vSAN clusters.Which two actions should the vSAN administrator take to complete this task? (Choose two.)

Create a vSAN VMKernel interface on the new host.

Create the required disk groups for the newly added host.

This is only possible by presenting iSCSI shares from the existing vSAN cluster.

Make sure the host has physical NICs with equal network throughput.

This is only possible by adding a minimum of three ESXi hosts.

Create a vSAN VMKernel interface on the new host.

Create the required disk groups for the newly added host.

A VMware vSAN administrator is configuring advanced monitoring with VMware vRealize Operations Manager and has the following requirement:• Ability to receive analytical information from the hard drive to determine a possible future failure of the hard drive.What should be enabled for data collection when configuring the vSAN Adapter Instance?

SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)

IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second)

SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)

A large enterprise has a main campus with two 8-Node vSAN 7.0 U1 clusters and 50 remote sites, each containing one 2-Node cluster. An administrator configures a vLCM desired image for lifecycle management, and vLCM had determined that all the clusters are in need of remediation.How would vLCM enhance the remediation operation in this situation?

The administrator can remediate all remote sites and the main campus concurrently.

When the administrator selects remediate, vLCM will non-disruptively remediate one server at a time until all clusters are complete.

The administrator should remediate the main campus using vSphere Update Manager (VUM) and the 50 remote sites using vLCM.

vLCM cannot remediate the clusters concurrently, so the administrator must complete the sites one-by-one in a parallel manner.

The administrator has successfully deployed a vSAN Stretched Cluster and needs to ensure that any virtual machines that are created are placed in the appropriate site.Which two steps are needed to complete this task? (Choose two.)

Create a storage policy that includes site affinity rules and apply to VMs.

Create VM/Host groups for the two sites.

Put the VMs in a vSphere DRS group.

Create a storage policy that includes site affinity rules and apply to VMs.

Create a single VM/Host group across both sites.

Create VM/Host groups for the two sites.

Put the VMs in the correct VM group.

What are two characteristics of the vSAN Data-At-Rest Encryption (DARE)? (Choose two.)

It is Software Defined and works independently of the Cache or Capacity drives installed on the Nodes.

It continues to operate unaffected during downtime on vCenter Server.

It requires Self-Encrypting Drives in order to work.

It needs to be enabled together with the vSAN Data-In-Transit encryption.

It is not supported on Stretched Cluster environments.

It is Software Defined and works independently of the Cache or Capacity drives installed on the Nodes.

It continues to operate unaffected during downtime on vCenter Server.

A vSAN administrator has two identical VMware vSAN clusters, one for staging workloads and another for production workloads. Due to an unforeseen capacity requirement, the vSAN administrator is tasked with merging the staging vSAN cluster into the production.Which two actions should the vSAN administrator perform on the staging cluster prior to moving the vSAN nodes to the production cluster? (Choose two.)

Mark the disks for partial reservation.

An administrator is responsible for managing a 5-node vSAN 7.0 cluster. The vSAN Cluster is configured with both vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). The vSAN Cluster is currently hosting 150 virtual machines that have consumed 60% of the usable capacity.Each virtual machine belongs to one of the following vSAN Storage Policies: vSANPolicy1:• Site Disaster Tolerance: None• Failures to Tolerate: 1 failure - RAID5 (Erasure Coding) vSANPolicy2:• Site Disaster Tolerance: None• Failures to Tolerate: No data redundancyFollowing an unplanned power event within the data center, the administrator has been alerted to the fact that one host has permanently failed.What will be the impact to any virtual machine that was running on the failed host using vSANPolicy1?

Each virtual machine will be unavailable for up to 90 minutes while the automatic recovery process completes.

Each virtual machine must be restored from backup.

vSAN will defer the start of the recovery process for 60 minutes, and the virtual machines will not power on until the recovery process has been completed.

Each virtual machine will be unavailable for up to 90 minutes while the automatic recovery process completes.

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

vSAN requires that the virtual machines deployed on the vSAN datastores are assigned at least one storage policy, but the administrator did not explicitly assign a storage policy when provisioning the new VM.What is the result of this situation?

The VM objects will be protected based on the vSAN Default Storage Policy configurations.

The vSphere Web Client will choose the last vSAN Storage Policy used.

The VM objects will be protected based on the vSAN Default Storage Policy configurations.

No data protection will be applied to the VM objects.

A vSAN administrator is planning to deploy a new vSAN cluster with these requirements:• Physical adapters share capacity among several traffic types• Guaranteed bandwidth for vSAN during bandwidth contention• Enhanced securityWhich two actions should be taken to configure the new vSAN cluster to meet these requirements?(Choose two.)

Create static routes between the vSAN hosts

Use IOPS Limit rules in storage policies

What happens to a disk group during cache disk removal?

It uses one of the capacity devices as cache.

A vSAN cluster has the following configuration:• 4 hosts with 1 disk group per host• Each disk group contains 1 cache device and 7 capacity devicesWhat are two ways to increase the vSAN datastore storage capacity? (Choose two.)

Add a capacity drive to each disk group.

Replace a cache device with a larger cache device.

Add a cache device to each disk group.

A vSAN administrator would like to configure Cloud Native Storage with File Volumes with vSAN 7.0.Which two requirements must be met? (Choose two.)

Enable and configure vSAN File Services on the vSAN cluster.

The cluster must have a vSAN on-disk format version 5 for Cloud Native Storage to be available.

Use a compatible version of CSI driver.

vSAN Cloud Native Storage is only available with RDMA-based networking.

Enable and configure vSAN File Services on the vSAN cluster.

The vSAN cluster must be connected to an external NFS storage to provide File Volume services.

The cluster must have a vSAN on-disk format version 5 for Cloud Native Storage to be available.

An administrator enabled vSAN and then enabled vSphere HA on the same cluster. Over which network will vSphere HA traverse?

Both vSAN and management network

An administrator is tasked to create a Kerberos secured NFS v4.1 file share. Which information is minimally required during the configuration of the File Service?

Active Directory Domain, Organizational Unit, User Account, Password

Kerberos Server, User Account, Password

Organizational Unit, User Account. Password

Active Directory Domain, User Account, Password

An administrator needs to design a new vSAN cluster to host production mission critical workloads.Which three topics would impact this design? (Choose three.)

The size of the cache tier according to workload characteristics

The supported CPU type of the ESXi host

Effective vSAN datastore capacity

The amount of virtual Disks per VM

The size of the cache tier according to workload characteristics

The supported CPU type of the ESXi host

An administrator wishes to prevent vCenter notifications of vSAN Health status during a scheduled maintenance window.Which action can be taken to achieve this goal?

Silence the alert from the HTML client.

Disable the performance service.

Run performance diagnostics prior to scheduled maintenance.

An administrator wants to configure a vSAN Direct Configuration for an existing vSAN cluster. The cluster has six hosts with three disk groups each. All disk groups have claimed the maximum amount of disks in the hosts.Which action should the administrator take first to complete this configuration with the least amount of administrative effort?

Claiming unused disks from Disk Management

Adding more disks to the disk groups

Creating a disk group from Disk Management

Claiming unused disks from Disk Management

Deleting one disk group from each host and evacuating data

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An administrator has deployed a dedicated VMware vSAN 7.0 U1 cluster that will be used to provide developers with access to an environment that is running VMware with Tanzu workloads only.

Which vSAN feature should be configured for vSAN Data Persistence platform (vDPp)?

vSAN Cloud Native Storage

vSAN with Shared Nothing Architecture (SNA)

vSAN Direct

vSAN File Services

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