VMware 3V0-23.25 Exam : Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Storage

An administrator is tasked with deploying a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain that meets the following requirements:
* vSAN ESA as principal storage
* RAID-6 with FTT=2
* Support for Storage Traffic Separation
The administrator is provided the following hardware to perform the task:
* Four ESX hosts, each host contains:
* 24 CPU cores
* 96 GB memory
* Two 25GbE network NICs
* 12 NVMe devices 4 TB each, connected to a single SATA/SAS/NVMe Tri-mode controller What four changes must the administrator make to the hardware before deploying the new Workload Domain?
(Choose four.)

• A. Increase the network NICs on each host to minimum of four 25 GbE network NICs.
• B. Increase the CPU quantity on each host to a minimum 32.
• C. Increase the ESX host count to a minimum of six.
• D. Replace the network NICs on each host to a minimum of two 100 GbE network NICs.
• E. Increase the Tri-mode controller quantity on each host to two, with six NVMe devices connected to each.
• F. Increase the ESX host count to a minimum of seven.
• G. Increase the memory on each host to a minimum 128 GB.
• H. Replace the Tri-mode controller on each host with a dedicated NVMe controller.

An administrator is managing a local vSAN 3-node cluster running the Express Storage Architecture (ESA) as part of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain.
The following parameters apply at the cluster level:
* HA is enabled
* Reserved Failover Capacity = 25% for both CPU and Memory
The administrator is tasked with configuring the VSAN storage policy so it will tolerate the maximum number of failures.
What two protection levels can the administrator configure? (Choose two.)

• A. RAID-I (Mirroring) 3 Failures.
• B. RAID-6 (Erasure Coding) 2 Failures.
• C. RAID-I (Mirroring) 2 Failures.
• D. RAID-5 (Erasure Coding) 1 Failure.
• E. RAID-1 (Mirroring) 1 Failure.
• F. No data redundancy.

A cache drive failed on one of the vSAN OSA nodes in the cluster.
When the drive failed, vSAN started a resync to ensure the health of the 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?

• A. Remove the existing vSAN disk group, and physically replace the device. Then, check to verify that the ESX host automatically detects the new device. Afterwards, manually recreate the Disk Group.
• B. Physically replace the failed cache device, and vSAN will automatically create a new disk group. Then, remove the disk group with the failed device.
• C. 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.
• D. Physically replace the failed cache device, and vSAN will automatically allocate the storage.

An administrator is managing a stretched vSAN ESA cluster where each site has three hosts.
The following parameters apply to the storage policy being configured at the datastore level:
* The policy is configured at the datastore level
* Site disaster tolerance = Site mirroring - stretched cluster
* Failures to tolerate = 1 failure - RAID-1 (mirroring)
* Number of disk stripes = 1
When inspecting some of the Virtual Machines (VMs), why do objects have 3 disk stripes?

• A. Site mirroring has been configured.
• B. There is a policy configured at the Virtual Machine level.
• C. ESA in RAID-1 always uses 3 stripes.
• D. Each Virtual Machine has 3 objects.

An administrator has been tasked with modifying an existing vSAN File Services deployment which uses Active Directory for Kerberos authentication.
Select three settings which can be modified after initially configuring the vSAN File Services. (Choose three.)

• A. Active Directory domain
• B. Static IP addresses
• C. Organizational Unit
• D. DNS names
• E. Active Directory Username
• F. Primary IP addresses