VMware 5v0-21-21 practice test

Question 1

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.)

• A. Upgrade all vSAN nodes to VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 using the baselines capability within VMware Update Manager (VUM).
• B. Disable vSAN Encryption before starting the upgrade process.
• C. Upgrade all vSAN nodes to VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 using the images capability within VMware Update Manager (VUM).
• D. Set VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) to partially automated.
• E. Upgrade to VMware vCenter Server 7.0 U1.
• F. Choose the Allow reduced redundancy option.

Question 2

multiple data centers, the customer relayed the following information:
* Highest possible mitigation during a host failure in terms of capacity.
* A constraint in this years IT budget.
What should the architect recommend?
A.
Enable operations reserve.
A minimum cluster of 3 vSAN nodes.
B.
Enable host build reserve.
A minimum cluster of 4 vSAN nodes.
C.
Enable performance services.
A minimum cluster of 6 vSAN nodes.
D.
Enable IOInsight Metrics.
A minimum cluster of 2 vSAN ROBO nodes.

Question 3

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.)

• A. The Full data migration maintenance mode option must be chosen to protect the data during the upgrade.
• B. The Ensure accessibility, migration maintenance mode option must be chosen to protect the data during the upgrade.
• C. The upgrade process should be completed using host upgrade baselines in VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).
• D. The vSAN nodes should be upgraded to vSphere ESXi 7.0 U1.
• E. The upgrade process should be completed using images in VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).
• F. The vSAN nodes should be upgraded to vSphere ESXi 6.7 U3.

Question 4

A customer is planning to migrate their physical Microsoft SQL Server clustered workloads to vSAN
enabled vSphere clusters.
The following requirements must be met:
* Each MSSQL cluster is made up of 3 nodes
* Highest possible availability against node failures
* Some of the vSAN clusters will only consume storage
What should the architect recommend?

• A. vSAN iSCSI Target Service
• B. Stretched vSAN Cluster
• C. vSAN Direct
• D. vSAN File Services

Question 5

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

• A. Wait, and vSAN will rebuild it.
• B. Replace the faulty disk.
• C. Replace the faulty host.
• D. Verify the host is not isolated.

Question 6

An architect is working with vSAN and setting the fault domains to support FTT=1.
How many fault domains will be needed?

• A. 2
• B. 3
• C. 4
• D. 1

Question 7

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?

• A. There will be no impact on performance.
• B. The VMs will no longer be accessible.
• C. The performance will be degraded.
• D. The VMs will be in a suspended state.

Question 8

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?

• A. The host will enter in maintenance mode and the data will remain accessible until the host exits maintenance mode.
• B. The system will prompt to add an additional host to the cluster in order to preserve the policy compliance.
• C. The host will enter in maintenance mode and only data with no redundancy will remain accessible.
• D. 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.

Question 9

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?

• A. Instant Clones
• B. Linked Clones
• C. Storage Tiers
• D. Storage Profiles

Question 10

An architect is working with an All-Flash vSAN configuration and will be using the Flash Caching
Devices in vSAN.
Which requirement is specifically needed for these devices?

• A. Write endurance
• B. IOPS
• C. Read endurance
• D. Capacity

Question 11

An architect collected the below technical requirements from the customer during a vSAN cluster
design workshop:
* Maximize the vSAN datastore usable capacity.
* Deduplication and compression are required to help utilize available capacity efficiency.
* Ensure the highest level of resiliency wherever possible.
Which disk group configuration should the architect include in the design?

• A. One disk group per host, with one cache tier flash disk and four capacity tier flash disks.
• B. Two disk groups per host, each with one cache tier flash disk and four capacity tier flash disks.
• C. Two disk groups per host, each with one cache tier flash disk and six capacity tier flash disks.
• D. Two disk groups per host, each with one cache tier flash disk and six capacity tier magnetic disks.

Question 12

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?

• A. To increase available storage space
• B. To set a failure tolerance
• C. To improve performance
• D. To reconstruct corrupted data

Question 13

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 machines vmdk becoming inaccessible.
Which step needs to be performed by the administrator to resolve the issue?

• A. Replace all failed disks on the preferred site.
• B. Replace the vSAN Witness Host
• C. Replace access to the existing vSAN Witness Host
• D. Replace only one failed disk on the preferred site.

Question 14

During a design workshop for a stretched vSAN cluster, the requirement that some of the VMs be
configured with no-mirror between sites was discussed.
Which three recommendations should the architect provide to address an event of a network
partition between two sites? (Choose three.)

• A. Host isolation response must exclude the VMs required
• B. The default gateway must be used as the only isolation address
• C. One of isolation addresses should reside in the site 1 data center
• D. VMware vSphere DRS rules to force the VMs to run where the data resides
• E. One isolation address reachable only from the witness appliance in both sites
• F. One of isolation addresses should reside in the site 2 data center

Question 15

An architect is tasked to design a VMware Horizon Solution with vSAN. The architect needs to use a
solution to host the users profile shares in a highly available manner, and it must be guest OS
independent.
Which solution will match these requirements?

• A. Cluster out of the box
• B. Cluster in a box
• C. NFS on vSAN
• D. iSCSI on vSAN