Question 61
Which metric is most critical for storage performance troubleshooting?
Question 62
An architect has been tasked with designing a vSAN OSA storage solution for a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Private Cloud. The following requirements and constraints have been gathered from the client:
* 2 x 4 TB NVMe disks per host
* 6 hosts
* FTT=1/RAID-5 for all deployed Virtual Machines
* Expected Dedupe/Compression Ratio = 2 (100%)
* Reserve enough capacity to rebuild a host completely in case of a failure (Host Rebuild Reservation)
* Operational Reserve of 10%
* Expected Overhead for Filesystem, Object, etc. of 25%
What is the approximate expected usable capacity of the resulting array?
* 2 x 4 TB NVMe disks per host
* 6 hosts
* FTT=1/RAID-5 for all deployed Virtual Machines
* Expected Dedupe/Compression Ratio = 2 (100%)
* Reserve enough capacity to rebuild a host completely in case of a failure (Host Rebuild Reservation)
* Operational Reserve of 10%
* Expected Overhead for Filesystem, Object, etc. of 25%
What is the approximate expected usable capacity of the resulting array?
Question 63
A VI Admin is analyzing a performance degradation event for a massive database running on a 6- node vSAN ESA cluster.
Using the vSAN Performance Service, the admin charts the latency across the three distinct vSAN execution layers for the specific VMDK:
```
[vSAN Performance View - VMDK Layer Breakdown]
Component Latency
Virtual Machine (Guest) 22.4 ms
DOM Client (ESX-01) 22.0 ms
vSAN Network 19.5 ms
DOM Owner (ESX-04) 1.2 ms
LSOM (ESX-04) 0.9 ms
```
Based on the "Top-Down" methodology and this data matrix, which of the following statements correctly isolate the bottleneck? (Select all that apply.)
Using the vSAN Performance Service, the admin charts the latency across the three distinct vSAN execution layers for the specific VMDK:
```
[vSAN Performance View - VMDK Layer Breakdown]
Component Latency
Virtual Machine (Guest) 22.4 ms
DOM Client (ESX-01) 22.0 ms
vSAN Network 19.5 ms
DOM Owner (ESX-04) 1.2 ms
LSOM (ESX-04) 0.9 ms
```
Based on the "Top-Down" methodology and this data matrix, which of the following statements correctly isolate the bottleneck? (Select all that apply.)
Question 64
Which statement accurately defines the fundamental mechanism of Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) when applied to a Datastore Cluster in a VCF environment?
Question 65
An Infrastructure Manager is utilizing the vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) in SDDC Manager to perform a firmware upgrade on the physical NVMe drives in a vSAN ESA cluster.
```
# vLCM Desired State Specification (JSON)
{
"esx_version": "8.0U2",
"vendor_addon": "DellEMC-OpenManage-v10",
"firmware_baseline": "Dell-NVMe-Gen4-v5.3.1"
}
```
How does vLCM natively handle the disruption of upgrading live NVMe firmware inside a running vSAN Express Storage Architecture cluster?
```
# vLCM Desired State Specification (JSON)
{
"esx_version": "8.0U2",
"vendor_addon": "DellEMC-OpenManage-v10",
"firmware_baseline": "Dell-NVMe-Gen4-v5.3.1"
}
```
How does vLCM natively handle the disruption of upgrading live NVMe firmware inside a running vSAN Express Storage Architecture cluster?
