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VDCD510 · Question #66

You are planning a vSphere 4.1 to 5.0 upgrade. The production datastores are 6 TB. Each datastore consist of thee extents of 2 TB and is currently 65% full. The operations team would like to keep…

The correct answer is A. Create a new VMFS 5 datastore of 6 TB. When a datastore with VMFS v3 is upgraded with extents to VMFS v5, the logical attributes and extents are not changed. Storage I/O control cannot be used with datastores composed of

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Question

You are planning a vSphere 4.1 to 5.0 upgrade. The production datastores are 6 TB. Each datastore consist of thee extents of 2 TB and is currently 65% full. The operations team would like to keep the system as close to the current configuration as possible. The upgrade process also requires as little service impact as possible. In addition, you wish to use storage I/O control as soon as possible, due to a mission-critical business application requirement. Which of the following would be the correct approach?

Options

  • ACreate a new VMFS 5 datastore of 6 TB
  • BUpgrade the VMFS 3 datastore

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    76% (25)
  • B
    24% (8)

Explanation

When a datastore with VMFS v3 is upgraded with extents to VMFS v5, the logical attributes and extents are not changed. Storage I/O control cannot be used with datastores composed of

Topics

#VMFS upgrade#VMFS 3 to VMFS 5#storage I/O control#datastore extents

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