5V0-21.21 Exam Questions

An organization has two vSAN clusters managed by the same vCenter Server, each providing 100TB of storage. The first cluster runs at 75% of its storage capacity, and the second clu...

Which statement accurately describes the result when proper VM Storage Policy Affinity Rules on a stretched vSAN cluster are set?

A cache disk failure marked a vSAN disk group as failed, and the data is being rebuilt on other disk groups. Which action should the vSAN administrator take to reduce the negative...

An architect is tasked to design a VMware Horizon Solution with vSAN. The architect needs to use a solution to host the user's profile shares in a highly available manner, and it m...

During a design workshop for a stretched vSAN cluster, the requirement that some of the VMs be configured with no-mirror between sites was discussed. Which three recommendations sh...

An 8-Node vSAN Stretched Cluster (4+4+1) with a single disk group has a policy with PFTT=1 (mirrored across sites) and SFTT=1/FTM Mirroring (Local Protection) configured. The admin...

An administrator is tasked to create a custom storage policy for workloads and is including additional disk stripes while defining the storage policy. What is the main purpose of t...

An architect collected the below technical requirements from the customer during a vSAN cluster design workshop: * Maximize the vSAN datastore usable capacity. * Deduplication and...

An architect is working with an All-Flash vSAN configuration and will be using the Flash Caching Devices in vSAN. Which requirement is specifically needed for these devices?

An administrator is tasked with migrating a VMware Horizon View environment that is currently running on an NFS Datastore to VMware vSAN. Which Horizon configuration option will no...

An administrator is tasked with preparing for a Cross vCenter migration in a stretched vSAN cluster where the virtual machines migration will be orchestrated via VMware Site Recove...

cluster for a customer who is planning to use vRealize Automation to provision 600 virtual machines into that cluster, with expected growth up to 1,000 VM. Each VM has a 40GB thick...

An administrator is tasked with sharing storage from one vSAN cluster to another vSAN cluster. SPBM management must be preserved end-to-end, and the policy must be applied by the s...

In a stretched vSAN cluster, how is Read Locality established after fail over to the secondary site?

In a vSAN stretched cluster, which value must be set in the vSAN policy if there is no requirement for data mirroring across sites?

An architect needs to automate an infrastructure that supports VMware Horizon as well as VMware Tanzu. Which solution mandates the use of VMware vSAN?

An administrator is setting up vSAN file services on a vSAN cluster. Which two security policies on the distributed port groups are automatically enabled in the process? (Choose tw...

An administrator has been tasked to reboot a node in an encrypted vSAN cluster. The vSAN disk groups on that node become locked after rebooting the node. Which step should be perfo...

A customer is planning to deploy a vSAN cluster to host their in-house distributed ERP system. The hardware specifications for their server nodes include: * 2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2...

A company hosts a vSAN 7 stretched cluster for all development workloads. The original sizing of a maximum of 250 concurrent workloads in the vSAN cluster is no longer sufficient a...

An administrator of "vsan-prod" cluster noticed the witness components of VMs are flagged as absent after a failed attempt to replace the vSAN Witness Host. Which action should the...

An architect is designing a vSAN cluster. Which storage controller option will yield optimal performance?

An administrator is planning to deploy cloud-native workloads onto the vSAN Direct datastore. Which storage policy structure rule is supported?

An administrator is planning to change a vSAN Storage Policy to apply a Failures To Tolerate (FTT) of 2, using RAID-6. What is the minimum number of vSAN nodes required?

An administrator is planning to deploy workloads on a six node vSAN cluster, and all nodes are distributed equally across three racks. Which action is required to ensure that the w...

A company has deployed a 12-node (6-6-1) vSAN 7.0 stretched cluster for all production workloads. The customer currently uses four different vSAN storage policies for running the w...

During a maintenance action on a vSAN node, a vSAN administrator noticed that the default repair delay time is about to be reached. Which two commands must be run to extend the tim...

An administrator wants to deploy a desktop and application virtualization solution on top of vSAN. Which VMware product should the administrator install?

An administrator has been tasked with enabling encryption for existing virtual machines on a vSAN cluster. Which three prerequisites must be satisfied before completing the task? (...

Upon checking the latency goal under vSAN performance diagnostics, the vSAN Administrator sees this message displayed: The increase in latency in the vSAN stack might be beyond exp...

An architect is designing for a production vSAN cluster, and the customer introduced these requirements related to File Services: - A minimum of 12 files shares. - 30TB NFS capacit...

An administrator has received an alert indicating that a single capacity device is close to failing within the production vSAN Cluster. The administrator must now complete preempti...

An administrator managing a vSAN cluster of six-nodes with policy FTT-2/RAID-6 decided to put one of the nodes in maintenance mode using the "Full-data migration" option. What will...

A 4-node vSAN cluster is configured with an erasure coding storage policy. The Ensure Accessibility maintenance mode was selected. While performing the maintenance, a second node f...

An architect is working with vSAN and setting the fault domains to support FTT=1. How many fault domains will be needed?

An administrator has an absent capacity disk. Which action, if any, should the administrator take to resolve the problem?

A customer is planning to migrate their physical Microsoft SQL Server clustered workloads to vSAN enabled vSphere clusters. The following requirements must be met: * Each MSSQL clu...

A company has engaged a consultant to upgrade an existing vSAN cluster to vSAN 7.0 U1. During the discovery phase, the consultant found the following information about the existing...

multiple data centers, the customer relayed the following information: * Highest possible mitigation during a host failure in terms of capacity. * A constraint in this year's IT bu...

A company has engaged a consultant to upgrade an existing vSAN cluster to vSAN 7.0 U1. The company wants to ensure that the same vSAN process can be used in the future. During the...

An administrator wants to deploy Kubernetes on an end-to-end VMware stack, using VMware vSAN for storage. Which VMware product should the administrator install as the Kubernetes pl...

Upon investigating a workload performance issue, a vSAN administrator observed a high backend IOPs on a vSAN cluster. Which two causes explain this behavior? (Choose two.)

An administrator wants to check the performance metrics for the workloads and their virtual disks that are running on a vSAN cluster, but no statistical charts are displayed in the...

A 30-minute power maintenance window has been approved on Sunday. Due to a delay, the maintenance took 20 minutes longer to finish. During this time, the vSAN administrator noticed...

Due to the success of the recently deployed developer-only private cloud solution, a company has a new requirement to at least double the usable capacity in their all-flash vSAN cl...

After a vSAN Witness Appliance network configuration, the vSAN administrator notices that vSAN traffic flows from vmk0 (Management Traffic) rather than vmk1 (vSAN Traffic). Which s...

A customer has upgraded to vSAN 7, but there is still an existing legacy host which must be removed from the vSAN cluster. Which three steps must an administrator take to successfu...

During a vSAN design workshop, an architect collected these customer requirements: * Leverage vSAN storage policies with Erasure Coding. * Enable Deduplication and Compression. * U...

An administrator is tasked with setting up Kerberos authentication only for the vSAN File services. Which version of Kerberos must be selected if the NFS version is v4.1?

An administrator wants to enable encryption on an existing vSAN cluster that already contains virtual machines. Which additional step should the administrator take to ensure no dat...