VMware Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Storage Sample Questions:

1. An administrator has been tasked with providing additional storage to an existing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) instance. The administrator decides to configure cross-cluster capacity sharing so that multiple independent vSAN HCI Clusters can consume storage of adjacent vSAN storage resources within the same workload domain.
What is a requirement of cross-cluster capacity sharing?

A) Client and Server vSAN Clusters must have different vSAN architectures.
B) All objects that make up a VM must reside on multiple vSAN datastores.
C) Ensure vSAN client Cluster latency to vSAN server Cluster is minimum 10 milliseconds.
D) Configure vSphere HA failure response for Datastore with APD to be set to Power off and restart VMs.

2. During maintenance on hosts in a four-node vSAN cluster, a host is placed in maintenance mode with the
"Ensure Accessibility" option.
All VMs are running with the Default Storage Policy (RAID-1, FTT=1) which has not been modified from the default settings.
While one of the hosts in the cluster is down for firmware upgrade, a second host in the cluster loses network connectivity.
How will the cluster be affected?

A) Some VMs become inaccessible until one of the affected hosts return to service.
B) Data is permanently lost for affected objects.
C) vSAN rebuilds missing components immediately on remaining hosts.
D) All VMs remain accessible; vSAN automatically rebalances to the other hosts.

3. An administrator has been tasked with adding supplemental storage to an existing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain. The supplemental storage will add capacity for backup data and ISO images without impacting the principal storage used for live production workloads.
What should the administrator recommend meeting the requirement?

A) Replace all existing datastores with NVMe devices.
B) Migrate Management Domain storage to a new cluster.
C) Attach additional NFS volumes or iSCSI datastores.
D) Increase the VMFS principal storage allocation.

4. An administrator has been presented with the following requirements from an application owner:
* The application is distributed across multiple data centers.
* The application currently uses NFSv4.1 for mounting data volumes.
* The application requires Kerberos encryption.
Drag and drop the three correct options from the Options list on the left and place them into the Required Options on the right to properly configure the storage solution to meet the requirements in any order. (Choose three.)

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

Solutions: