2V0-622 · Question #452
An administrator is reviewing a virtual machine's storage performance on an ESXi 6.5 host and noticed that it is affecting shared data storage activity on another host. Which should be enabled in orde
The correct answer is B. Storage I/O Control. Storage I/O Control (SIOC) monitors and throttles datastore I/O across all hosts sharing a datastore, preventing a single VM from monopolizing storage bandwidth at the expense of other hosts.
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An administrator is reviewing a virtual machine's storage performance on an ESXi 6.5 host and noticed that it is affecting shared data storage activity on another host. Which should be enabled in order to mitigate the issue?
Options
- ANetwork I/O Control
- BStorage I/O Control
- CStorage DRS
- DvSphere HA
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A9% (2)
- B82% (18)
- C5% (1)
- D5% (1)
Why each option
Storage I/O Control (SIOC) monitors and throttles datastore I/O across all hosts sharing a datastore, preventing a single VM from monopolizing storage bandwidth at the expense of other hosts.
Network I/O Control manages network bandwidth allocation on virtual distributed switches and has no effect on storage I/O contention on shared datastores.
Storage I/O Control works at the datastore level and enforces I/O shares and limits across all virtual machines from all connected hosts, using a congestion threshold to detect when one VM's heavy I/O is impacting shared storage performance. When congestion is detected, SIOC redistributes I/O bandwidth fairly, directly mitigating the cross-host storage interference described in the scenario.
Storage DRS makes placement and migration recommendations for virtual machines across datastores based on capacity and latency but does not throttle real-time I/O from a specific running VM.
vSphere HA monitors host and VM availability for failover purposes and does not address storage I/O contention or bandwidth fairness between virtual machines.
Concept tested: Storage I/O Control cross-host datastore contention mitigation
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-37CC0E44-7BC7-479C-81DC-520D1A35AFEF.html
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