2V0-621D · Question #195
Refer to the Exhibit. An administrator receives the error message shown in the Exhibit. Which two actions can be taken to clear the warning? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is C. Set the advanced High Availability parameter Das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore to true. D. Add a shared datastore and reconfigure High Availability. To clear an 'insufficient heartbeating datastores' warning in vSphere HA, an administrator can either add a new shared datastore or configure HA to ignore such warnings.
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Refer to the Exhibit. An administrator receives the error message shown in the Exhibit. Which two actions can be taken to clear the warning? (Choose two.)
Exhibit
Options
- AAdd a Virtual SAN datastore and configure it for High Availability heartbeating.
- BSet the advanced High Availability parameter Das.heartbeatdsperhost to 1.
- CSet the advanced High Availability parameter Das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore to true.
- DAdd a shared datastore and reconfigure High Availability.
How the community answered
(36 responses)- A17% (6)
- B6% (2)
- C78% (28)
Why each option
To clear an 'insufficient heartbeating datastores' warning in vSphere HA, an administrator can either add a new shared datastore or configure HA to ignore such warnings.
Virtual SAN datastores are local to each host and are not considered traditional shared datastores for the purpose of vSphere HA datastore heartbeating, which typically relies on shared VMFS or NFS datastores.
Setting Das.heartbeatdsperhost to 1 would reduce the number of heartbeat datastores HA attempts to use per host, but it generally doesn't address the 'insufficient heartbeat datastores' warning if the cluster still lacks the recommended minimum shared datastores for robust HA functionality.
The advanced High Availability parameter Das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore, when set to true, instructs vSphere HA to suppress warnings related to an insufficient number of heartbeating datastores, effectively clearing the warning message without necessarily resolving the underlying resource constraint.
Adding a new shared datastore that is accessible by multiple hosts and then reconfiguring High Availability directly addresses the root cause of the warning by providing the necessary additional shared storage for HA datastore heartbeating.
Concept tested: vSphere HA datastore heartbeating configuration
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.ha.doc/GUID-62EE7833-28D8-4903-9D19-940428B000C8.html
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