An administrator is planning a new vSphere deployment using shared storage. The solution must support: - vMotion - Storage vMotion - Fault Tolerant virtual machines - VAAI primitives - RDM disks Which

CIFS is a file-sharing protocol that does not support RDM disks or VAAI block primitives, and VMware does not support CIFS as a vSphere datastore type.

iSCSI is a block-level storage protocol that satisfies every listed requirement: it supports vMotion and Storage vMotion for VM mobility, Fault Tolerance for continuous availability, VAAI hardware acceleration primitives (ATS, XCOPY, WRITE SAME), and Raw Device Mappings (RDM) because RDMs require direct block-level LUN access that only block storage protocols like iSCSI or Fibre Channel can provide.

NFS is a file-based protocol that supports vMotion and Storage vMotion but cannot provide RDM disks because RDMs require a block-level LUN that NFS does not expose.

vSAN is a software-defined storage solution that does not support RDM disks, as RDMs require a discrete physical LUN that vSAN's abstracted storage model does not present.