VMware Certified Specialist - vSAN Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A vSAN administrator notices that after adding new capacity devices to an existing vSAN cluster, the cluster is not automatically rebalancing data. The administrator wants to trigger a proactive rebalance to distribute data evenly across all capacity devices. What should the administrator do?

An organization is designing a vSAN cluster to support critical workloads requiring RAID-6/FTT=2 erasure coding. The cluster will be deployed in a single site. What is the minimum number of hosts required to support this configuration while maintaining data availability during maintenance operations?

A vSAN cluster is experiencing degraded performance during peak hours. After reviewing performance metrics, the administrator observes high congestion values on multiple disk groups and notices that the cache tier is undersized relative to the capacity tier. What is the best approach to address this issue?

An administrator is deploying a two-node vSAN cluster with a witness host for a remote office. The administrator wants to ensure that virtual machines remain accessible if one of the data nodes fails. Which configuration should be implemented?

A vSAN stretched cluster is deployed across two sites with a witness at a third location. During a complete site failure of Site A, what happens to the virtual machines that were running on hosts at Site A?

An administrator needs to perform maintenance on a vSAN host that contains critical VM data. The administrator selects 'Ensure Accessibility' as the data evacuation mode. What will happen to the data on this host?

A company is implementing vSAN with deduplication and compression enabled. The administrator notices that some virtual machines show different capacity utilization values in the vSAN datastore compared to their actual provisioned size. What is the most likely explanation?

An administrator is troubleshooting network performance issues in a vSAN environment. While reviewing vSAN network diagnostics, the administrator notices packet loss between certain hosts. Which vSAN feature can help identify which physical network adapters or paths are experiencing issues?

A vSAN cluster has multiple disk groups across several hosts. An administrator notices that one disk group shows a permanent disk failure on a capacity device. What is the expected behavior of vSAN in this scenario?

An organization needs to deploy a vSAN cluster that supports both standard virtual machines and container workloads using vSAN File Services. What configuration is required to enable vSAN File Services?