Free Access VMware.3V0-23.25.v2026-09-17.q73 Practice Test (Page 9)

Question 36

A VI Admin completes an automated vSAN ReadyNode firmware upgrade using vLCM. After the ESXi hosts reboot, multiple Virtual Machines become unresponsive, and vSAN Skyline Health turns Red.
```
[UI - Skyline Health > Hardware Compatibility]
Issue: "vSAN I/O Controller Driver and Firmware are not matched"
Host: esx-08
Controller: Avago LSI 3108
Running Firmware: 4.680.00 (Upgraded)
Running Driver: 7.712.00 (Legacy)
```
What operational failure caused this post-upgrade storage outage, and what is the standard remediation? (Select all that apply.)

A.The storage array immediately enters a Permanent Device Loss (PDL) state, permanently corrupting the vSAN file system.

B.The only supported resolution is to physically replace the HBA controller, as flashed firmware cannot communicate with older drivers.

C.The VI Admin successfully upgraded the physical firmware chip on the controller to 4.680.00, but failed to include the corresponding updated ESXi software driver (7.716.x) in the vLCM Image baseline, creating an HCL mismatch.

D.The remediation is to update the vLCM Image specification to include the correct certified driver (7.716.x) and push the software update to the ESXi kernel to align with the new firmware.

E.Mismatched storage driver/firmware combinations in vSAN commonly cause SCSI aborts, resulting in All Paths Down (APD) conditions that hang the Distributed Object Manager and freeze the VMs.

Question 37

An L3 Support Engineer is called into a war room. A vSAN ESA Stretched Cluster (Site A and Site B, with Witness at Site C) has suffered a complex cascade failure.
Current State:
1. Site B suffered a total power loss.
2. Simultaneously, the Witness Appliance network link at Site C was severed.
3. Site A remains fully operational with no hardware faults.
The VMs originally running on Site B are unreachable. The VMs originally running on Site A are frozen.
The Storage Policy configuration is shown below:
```
# Stretched Cluster Policy
[Site-Disaster-Tolerance]
Rule = "Dual site mirroring (stretched cluster)"
[Failures-to-Tolerate]
Rule = "1 failure - RAID-5 (Erasure Coding) [Local]"
[Advanced-Rule]
ForceProvisioning = 0
```
Based on the integration of Object Health states and Stretched Cluster topology, why are the VMs on Site A frozen, and what is the exact status of their storage objects? (Select all that apply.)

A.The local RAID-5 policy rule on Site A cannot override the primary Stretched Cluster quorum; both site-level components and local components must be evaluated.

B.The objects for Site A VMs are "Inaccessible" because Site A holds only the local replica (1 vote), while the Site B replica (1 vote) and the Witness (1 vote) are both unavailable, resulting in a loss of cluster quorum (<50%).

C.The objects are in "Reduced Availability" (ABSENT state) because the Dual Site Mirroring policy allows Site A to maintain independent quorum using its local RAID-5 parity blocks.

D.The ForceProvisioning = 0 rule prevents vSphere HA from restarting the VMs on Site A until Site B is recovered.

E.Restoring network connectivity to the Witness at Site C is the fastest operational path to restore object accessibility for the VMs on Site A.

Question 38

Select the storage capabilities supported for use with persistent volumes in the VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
Drag and drop the five supported capabilities from the vSphere Storage Capabilities list on the left and place them into the Supported Storage Capabilities list on the right in any order. (Choose five.)

Question 39

An administrator notices alerts triggering IOPS and Disk Throughput storage performance problems in the Fibre Channel datastore in a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain.
What can the administrator review to identify which Virtual Machines (VMs) may be experiencing storage IOPS and disk throughput performance issues?

A.vSAN Health dashboard.

B.vSphere Storage Inventory dashboard.

C.Live! vSphere Heavy Hitter VM dashboard.

D.Storage Operations page.

Question 40

A VI Admin is diagnosing a "Component Limit Exceeded" alert on a vSAN OSA cluster.
The cluster capacity is at 50%, but several ESXi hosts have hit their 9,000 maximum component count.
The admin queries the component tree for a large data warehouse VM.
```
[RVC Output: vsan.obj_status_report ~cluster]
Object: SQL-DW-Data (4.0 TB)
Policy: FTT=1 (RAID-1), Stripe Width = 12
Total Object Component Count: 28 components
- Replica 1: 12 Stripe chunks + 2 Concatenation chunks (Size > 255GB)
- Replica 2: 12 Stripe chunks + 2 Concatenation chunks
- Witness: 0 (No tie-breaker currently mapped)
```
Based on the RVC output and vSAN mechanics, which TWO factors directly caused this single VMDK to consume 28 metadata components? (Choose 2.)

A.The 255 GB maximum component size limit was exceeded, forcing vSAN to concatenate the larger stripes into additional sub-components.

B.The "Witness" state indicates a network partition, which spawned 28 temporary components to handle the voting logic.

C.The 4.0 TB object size triggered the automated Deduplication limit, requiring 12 extra components to store the hash tables.

D.The "Stripe Width = 12" policy forced the DOM to split the initial data payload into 12 separate data components per replica.

E.The system defaulted to a Dual-Site Mirroring topology, inherently doubling the component count.

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