VCP550 · Question #76
An administrator is planning a vSphere Fault Tolerance implementation for 6 virtual machines. Which two virtual disk types are supported with FT? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. Raw Device Mapped LUN configured for Virtual Compatibility Mode C. Virtual disk thick provisioned, eager zeroed. vSphere Fault Tolerance supports only RDM disks in Virtual Compatibility Mode and thick-provisioned eager-zeroed VMDKs due to its snapshot and replication requirements.
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An administrator is planning a vSphere Fault Tolerance implementation for 6 virtual machines. Which two virtual disk types are supported with FT? (Choose two.)
Options
- ARaw Device Mapped LUN configured for Virtual Compatibility Mode
- BRaw Device Mapped LUN configured for Physical Compatibility Mode
- CVirtual disk thick provisioned, eager zeroed
- DVirtual disk thick provisioned, lazy zeroed
How the community answered
(43 responses)- A74% (32)
- B19% (8)
- D7% (3)
Why each option
vSphere Fault Tolerance supports only RDM disks in Virtual Compatibility Mode and thick-provisioned eager-zeroed VMDKs due to its snapshot and replication requirements.
RDM in Virtual Compatibility Mode is supported with FT because vSphere retains control over I/O operations and can take snapshots of the disk, which is required for FT's secondary VM replication and fast-failover mechanism.
RDM in Physical Compatibility Mode passes raw SCSI commands directly to the LUN, bypassing vSphere's I/O management layer; this prevents the snapshot and replication operations that FT requires to maintain the secondary VM.
Thick provisioned eager-zeroed is the only VMDK format supported by FT because all blocks are pre-allocated and zeroed at creation time, enabling the continuous block-level replication that FT relies on without encountering uninitialized storage regions.
Thick provisioned lazy-zeroed disks are not supported by FT because blocks are only zeroed on first write, meaning uninitialized regions exist that cannot be reliably replicated by FT's synchronization process.
Concept tested: vSphere Fault Tolerance supported virtual disk types
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-57929CF8-4F05-4B8C-9CAF-3F4C376A0F2C.html
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