01. At a regional hospital network, the shared VMFS datastore CLIN-DS-04 is mounted by all six hosts of a cluster in a VI workload domain. It reached 100% full overnight. Every powered-on VM that uses CLIN-DS-04 is registered on esx-03, while the VMs on the other five hosts that use it are powered off. The array team has already grown the LUN, and the wizard lists the larger device.
Which two statements describe how the administrator can increase the capacity of CLIN-DS-04?
(Choose two.)
a) Perform the capacity increase from esx-03, the host where the powered-on VMs using the datastore are registered
b) Perform the capacity increase from any of the six hosts, since every host mounts the datastore
c) Power off the VMs on esx-03 first, since a full datastore cannot grow while they run
d) Keep the VMs on esx-03 powered on while the capacity is increased
e) Perform the increase from esx-01, which created the datastore
02. Host esx-21 in a VI workload domain reaches a supplemental Fibre Channel array through adapter vmhba2, which has four paths to the target ports of the array. Latency on vmhba2 rises during backups, and the administrator suspects the backup traffic is concentrating on a single path instead of being spread across all four. The administrator opens esxtop on the host to confirm.
Which view shows whether one of the paths of vmhba2 carries most of the load or latency?
a) The storage adapter panel with vmhba2 expanded, which breaks its statistics down by each individual path
b) The virtual machine storage panel, which breaks I/O down by each VM's virtual disks
c) The network panel, which shows load and drops for each physical uplink on the host
e) The vsantop utility, which reports latency and throughput for each storage path
03. A logistics company runs VI workload domain WLD-Ops in VCF 9.0. Its first cluster was created through the VCF workload-domain workflow with vSAN ESA as principal storage. The SAP team now needs a second cluster of six new hosts that have FC HBAs, no vSAN-capable devices and access to an existing array whose LUNs the storage team already replicates. The SAP VMs must run from that array, and the new cluster must belong to WLD-Ops rather than to a new domain. The hosts were commissioned with VMFS on FC as their storage type.
Which plan meets these requirements?
a) Create a new VI workload domain for the six hosts, because every cluster in WLD-Ops must keep vSAN ESA as principal storage
b) Add the six hosts to WLD-Ops as a new cluster that uses VMFS on FC as its principal storage
c) Join the six hosts to the vSAN ESA cluster and use the FC datastore on them
d) Add the six hosts to WLD-Ops as a vSAN compute cluster mounting the ESA datastore
04. During a failed patch window, the vCenter instance of a VI workload domain becomes unavailable and will not be restored for several hours. The eight-host vSAN ESA cluster of the domain keeps running its VMs. An application owner reports slow storage, and the on-call administrator, who can reach the management address of each host in a browser, needs current vSAN health findings for the hosts now.
Which interface provides those findings?
a) vSAN Skyline Health in the vSphere Client
b) The vSAN dashboards in VCF Operations
c) The vSAN Health tab in the ESX Host Client of each host
d) The SDDC Manager inventory view of the workload domain and its vSAN cluster
05. Array firmware work at a pharmaceutical company requires three VMFS on FC datastores to be emptied for one night. DS-01 and DS-02 are members of datastore cluster DSC-Lab, where Storage DRS is enabled. DS-09 is a standalone datastore used by six VMs and is not part of any datastore cluster. The administrator wants to use datastore maintenance mode wherever vSphere allows it.
Which two statements are correct for this plan?
(Choose two.)
a) DS-01 can enter maintenance mode, and its disks move out by Storage DRS or by the administrator
b) DS-02 can enter maintenance mode only after all of its VMs are powered off
c) Placing each cluster host in maintenance mode, one at a time, moves the disks of the six VMs off DS-09
d) vSAN resynchronizes the disks off DS-02 in maintenance mode
e) DS-09 cannot enter maintenance mode while it is a standalone datastore
06. Datastore cluster DSC-Fin at a credit union holds three VMFS on FC datastores with Storage DRS set to Fully Automated. A VMDK anti-affinity rule keeps the three virtual disks of VM SQL-07 on three different datastores. When the administrator places DS-2 in maintenance mode for a controller replacement, it stays in Entering Maintenance Mode because the SQL-07 disk on DS-2 cannot move without breaking the rule. The change board requires the rule to stay defined for the whole window.
Which action lets DS-2 complete entering maintenance mode?
a) Delete the anti-affinity rule, finish maintenance mode and create the rule again afterward
b) Raise the space utilization threshold of DSC-Fin to its highest setting and retry maintenance mode
c) Set the SQL-07 VM override to Disabled so Storage DRS skips its rule
d) Enable the Ignore Affinity Rules for Maintenance option on DSC-Fin and retry maintenance mode
07. Halvorsen Utilities is designing a new VCF 9.0 instance that will be deployed with the VCF Installer. The architect wants disaggregated vSAN wherever the VCF 9.0 storage model allows it. VI workload domain WLD-02 will contain a vSAN ESA storage cluster, and every proposed cluster in the design is built from vSAN ESA ReadyNodes.
Which two proposals does the VCF 9.0 storage model support as principal storage?
(Choose two.)
a) A vSAN storage cluster as an additional management domain cluster that is added after the instance is deployed
b) A vSAN single-rack compute cluster in WLD-02
c) A vSAN single-rack compute cluster as the management domain default cluster
d) Both the default cluster and an extra cluster of the management domain as vSAN storage clusters
e) A vSAN storage cluster as the management domain default cluster deployed by the VCF Installer
08. The VM BI-REPORT-02 runs on a vSAN compute cluster that mounts the datastore of a vSAN storage cluster in the same VI workload domain, and all of its virtual disks live on that remote vSAN datastore. Report users complain of slow queries, and the administrator wants to use vSAN I/O Trip Analyzer to break the latency of the VM's disks down across the vSAN layers.
What should the administrator expect?
a) The trip analysis runs from the compute cluster, since that cluster owns the VM and its I/O path
b) The trip analysis runs from the storage cluster, since that cluster holds the disk components
c) I/O Trip Analyzer does not support disks on a remote vSAN datastore
d) I/O Insight gives the same per-layer latency breakdown once it is activated for the VM
09. An engineering firm adds a VMFS datastore on an iSCSI array to a VI workload domain as supplemental storage and uses iSER for low latency. Each ESX host has two RDMA-capable 25 GbE adapters, vmnic4 and vmnic5, dedicated to storage, and the network team has configured the switches for RoCE v2. The design must survive the loss of either adapter.
How should the architect configure the iSER networking on each host?
a) One vSwitch with vmnic4 and vmnic5 teamed active/active behind a single iSER VMkernel adapter
b) A link aggregation group of both adapters, carrying one bound iSER VMkernel adapter
c) One vSwitch with both adapters in active/standby order
d) Two vSwitches, each with one RDMA adapter and one bound VMkernel adapter
10. Eighteen months ago an administrator configured vSAN File Service on a vSAN ESA cluster with the corp.example.com AD domain, an organizational unit named FileServers and the service account svc-vsanfs. Twenty SMB shares are in use.
A directory cleanup project now lists five changes for the file service, including new shares, quotas, a new OU for the file server computer accounts and a new service account.
Which two changes cannot be made by editing the existing File Service configuration?
(Choose two.)
a) Creating more SMB shares in the AD domain
b) Creating NFS 3 shares using AUTH_SYS for Linux compile servers
c) Setting a hard quota on each new share
d) Moving the file server computer accounts into the new organizational unit
e) Replacing the svc-vsanfs username with the new service account