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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 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.

Section 3 – Configure and Administer vSphere 6.5 Storage

Question

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)
  • A
    9% (2)
  • B
    82% (18)
  • C
    5% (1)
  • D
    5% (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.

ANetwork I/O Control

Network I/O Control manages network bandwidth allocation on virtual distributed switches and has no effect on storage I/O contention on shared datastores.

BStorage I/O ControlCorrect

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.

CStorage DRS

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.

DvSphere HA

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

Topics

#Storage I/O Control#SIOC#I/O contention#storage performance

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