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?

An administrator is setting up vSAN file services on a vSAN cluster but is unable to join the vSAN File Services to the domain.

Which two possible reasons could explain this failure? (Choose two.)

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?

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?

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.)

An architect is currently working with a customer to transform their existing ESXi hosts to vSAN nodes. The customer expressed the following requirements.

• First phase will transform 50% of the hosts to a hybrid vSAN nodes.

• Second phase will transform the remaining 50% hosts to an All-Flash vSAN nodes.

The following constraint exists:

• Each host has a 4-port x 1 GbE network interface.

Which two recommendations should the architect make to align with the customer's requirements? (Choose two.)

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?

An architect is working with vSAN and setting the fault domains to support FTT=1.

How many fault domains will be needed?

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?

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?

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.)

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?

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?

An architect is designing a vSAN cluster.

Which storage controller option will yield optimal performance?

An administrator has noticed that a number of the virtual machines in the preferred site are showing as either failed or partitioned.

In which two ways would the administrator expect the virtual machines to respond? (Choose two.)

Which three steps are required to decommission a stretched cluster and convert it to a standard vSAN cluster? (Choose three.)

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 10GbE

Which three recommendations should the consultant make to ensure all data remains protected in the event of a vSAN failure? (Choose three.)

An organization has two vSAN clusters managed by the same vCenter server, each providing 100 TB of storage. The first cluster runs at 75% of its storage capacity, and the second cluster runs at 40% of its storage capacity.

The company also has the following:

• an iSCSI array of 300 TB, which runs at 76% of its capacity

• a NAS system of 200 TB, which runs at 10% of its capacity

• a Fiber channel (FC) array of 300 TB, which runs at 80% of its capacity

The administrator is asked to add an additional 25 TB of storage to the first cluster but 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?

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?