VCP 51-100

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An administrator runs the command esxcli storage core device list and sees the following output:

mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Display Name: RAID 5 (mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0) Has Settable Display
Name: false SizE. 40960 Device Type: Direct-Access Multipath Plugin: NMP Devfs Path:
/vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Status: off Is Local: true

What can be determined by this output?

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An administrator notices that there is an all paths down (APD) event occurring for the software
FcoE storage.

What is a likely cause?

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Which two statements are true regarding iSCSI adapters? (Choose two.)

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Which command shows the Physical Uplink status for a vmnic?

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An administrator creates a Private VLAN with a Primary VLAN ID of 2. The administrator then
creates three Private VLANs as follows:

Marketing
PVLAN ID. 4
PVLAN Type. Isolated

Accounting
PVLAN ID. 5
PVLAN Type. Community

Secretary
PVLAN ID. 17
PVLAN Type. Isolated

Users in the Accounting PVLAN are reporting problems communicating with servers in the
Marketing PVLAN.

Which two actions could the administrator take to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)

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What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)

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Which two considerations should an administrator keep in mind when booting from Software Fiber
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? (Choose two.)

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An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to
access the storage.

Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)

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Which two statements are true regarding VMFS3 volumes in ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

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Which three statements are correct regarding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)? (Choose
three.)

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Which two statements are true regarding Virtual SAN Fault Domains? (Choose two.)

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An administrator created a six node Virtual SAN cluster, created a fault domain, and moved three
of the six nodes into that domain.

A node that is a member of the fault domain fails.

What is the expected result?

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Where is a Virtual SAN Fault Domain configured?

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Which statement is true for the Path Selection Plug-In VMW_PSP_MRU?

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Which two tasks does the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) perform? (Choose two.)

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Which two statements are true regarding Storage Multipathing Plug-Ins? (Choose two.)

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What is the command to list multipathing modules on an ESXi 6.x host?

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Which two solutions require Physical Mode Raw Device Mapping (RDM)? (Choose two.)

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A device's vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) support status command line output shows:

naa.500253825002a865 VAAI Plugin Name: ATS Status: unsupported Clone Status: unsupported
Zero Status: supported Delete Status: unsupported

What is the corresponding VAAI support status in the vSphere Web Client?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

What will be the result of selecting the highlighted device?

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An administrator observes that virtual machine storage activity on an ESXi 6.x host is negatively
affecting virtual machine storage activity on another host that is accessing the same VMFS
Datastore.

Which action would mitigate the issue?

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An administrator is having a problem configuring Storage I/O Control on a Datastore.

Which two conditions could explain the issue? (Choose two.)

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Which three are requirements for configuring Storage I/O Control (SIOC)? (Choose three.)

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Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator wishes to provide Load Balanced I/O for the device shown in the Exhibit.

To meet this requirement, which setting should be changed?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is configuring a storage device as shown in the Exhibit.

What is the expected effect on the stated device after running the command?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

A vSphere 6.x environment is configured with VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs). An administrator
accesses the cluster Actions menu, as shown in the Exhibit.

Which option is used to create a VVOL on an existing VVOL container?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

What will be created upon completion of the steps in this wizard?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is attempting to enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC), but receives the
error shown in the Exhibit.

Which condition would explain the error?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

The list of devices attached to vmhba1 will be the basis for configuring a VMware Virtual SAN
using Manual Mode.

Based on the exhibit, which two combinations of devices should be used to create Disk Group(s)?
(Choose two.)

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Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is using the esxtop command to troubleshoot storage performance issues on a
virtual machine. The esxtop capture is shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

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An administrator needs to recover disk space on a previously-used thin provisioned virtual disk.
The volumes where the administrator needs to recover the disk blocks are on VAAI-compliant
storage arrays.

Which two actions should the administrator take accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

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Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator recently created a Virtual SAN but no Storage Policies were defined. A few virtual
machines were deployed to this cluster. The administrator analyzes the default Virtual SAN policy
as shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

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Refer to the Exhibit.

A Storage Policy for a Virtual SAN is set to the default policy, as shown in the Exhibit.

Which change would reduce the storage consumption by one third?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator would like to add Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) to an
iSCSI adapter. The administrator accesses the Storage Adapters menu as shown in the Exhibit.

In which tab can the task be accomplished?

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An administrator is writing a kickstart script to upgrade an ESXi 6.x host.

In which three locations can the script reside? (Choose three.)

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Which file determines the location of the installation script during a scripted upgrade?

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What three supported methods can be used to upgrade a host from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 6.x?
(Choose three.)

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Which two supported tools can be used to upgrade virtual machine hardware? (Choose two.)

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What are three recommended prerequisites before upgrading virtual machine hardware? (Choose
three.)

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An administrator wants to upgrade to vCenter Server 6.x.

The vCenter Server:

Is hosted on a virtualmachine server running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, with 8 vCPUs
and 16GB RAM.

Will have an embedded Platform Services Controller.

Hosts a Large Environment with 1,000 ESXi hosts and 10,000 Virtual Machines.

Why does the vCenter Server not meet the minimum requirements?

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An administrator has upgraded a Distributed vCenter Server environment from 5.5 to 6.0.

What is the next step that should be taken?

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When upgrading vCenter Server, an administrator notices that the upgrade fails at the vCenter
Single Sign-On installation.

What must be done to allow the upgrade to complete?

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During a vCenter Server upgrade, an ESXi 6.x host in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails.

Which statement is true?

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An administrator is upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance and wants to ensure that all the
prerequisites are met.

What action must be taken before upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance?

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An administrator is upgrading vCenter Server and sees this error:

The DB User entered does not have the required permissions needed to install and configure
vCenter Server with the selected DB. Please correct the following error(s): %s

Which two statements explain this error? (Choose two.)

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Which two vCenter Server services are migrated automatically as part of an upgrade from a Distributed vCenter Server running 5.x? (Choose two.)

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What command line utility can be used to upgrade an ESXi host?

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Which log file would you examine to identify an issue which occurred during the pre-upgrade
phase of a vCenter Server upgrade process?

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What is the minimum Virtual Hardware version required for vFlash Read Cache?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator reviews the Health of a virtual machine, as shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which three metrics can be used to determine the virtual machine’s
Workload characteristics? (Choose three.)

Quiz on VCP 51-100, created by Eric Fa on 25/07/2017.

VCP 51-100

An administrator notices that there is an all paths down (APD) event occurring for the software FcoE storage. What is a likely cause?

Which two statements are true regarding iSCSI adapters? (Choose two.)

Which command shows the Physical Uplink status for a vmnic?

What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)

Which two considerations should an administrator keep in mind when booting from Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? (Choose two.)

An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to access the storage. Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)

Which two statements are true regarding VMFS3 volumes in ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Which three statements are correct regarding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)? (Choose three.)

Which two statements are true regarding Virtual SAN Fault Domains? (Choose two.)

An administrator created a six node Virtual SAN cluster, created a fault domain, and moved three of the six nodes into that domain. A node that is a member of the fault domain fails. What is the expected result?

Where is a Virtual SAN Fault Domain configured?

Which statement is true for the Path Selection Plug-In VMW_PSP_MRU?

Which two tasks does the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) perform? (Choose two.)

Which two statements are true regarding Storage Multipathing Plug-Ins? (Choose two.)

What is the command to list multipathing modules on an ESXi 6.x host?

Which two solutions require Physical Mode Raw Device Mapping (RDM)? (Choose two.)

Refer to the Exhibit. What will be the result of selecting the highlighted device?

An administrator notices that there is an all paths down (APD) event occurring for the software
FcoE storage.

What is a likely cause?

Which two considerations should an administrator keep in mind when booting from Software Fiber
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? (Choose two.)

An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to
access the storage.

Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)

Which three statements are correct regarding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)? (Choose
three.)

An administrator created a six node Virtual SAN cluster, created a fault domain, and moved three
of the six nodes into that domain.

A node that is a member of the fault domain fails.

What is the expected result?

Refer to the Exhibit.

What will be the result of selecting the highlighted device?

An administrator observes that virtual machine storage activity on an ESXi 6.x host is negatively
affecting virtual machine storage activity on another host that is accessing the same VMFS
Datastore.

Which action would mitigate the issue?

An administrator is having a problem configuring Storage I/O Control on a Datastore.

Which two conditions could explain the issue? (Choose two.)

Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator wishes to provide Load Balanced I/O for the device shown in the Exhibit.

To meet this requirement, which setting should be changed?

Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is configuring a storage device as shown in the Exhibit.

What is the expected effect on the stated device after running the command?

Refer to the Exhibit.

A vSphere 6.x environment is configured with VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs). An administrator
accesses the cluster Actions menu, as shown in the Exhibit.

Which option is used to create a VVOL on an existing VVOL container?

Refer to the Exhibit.

What will be created upon completion of the steps in this wizard?

Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is attempting to enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC), but receives the
error shown in the Exhibit.

Which condition would explain the error?

Refer to the Exhibit.

The list of devices attached to vmhba1 will be the basis for configuring a VMware Virtual SAN
using Manual Mode.

Based on the exhibit, which two combinations of devices should be used to create Disk Group(s)?
(Choose two.)

Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is using the esxtop command to troubleshoot storage performance issues on a
virtual machine. The esxtop capture is shown in the Exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

An administrator needs to recover disk space on a previously-used thin provisioned virtual disk.
The volumes where the administrator needs to recover the disk blocks are on VAAI-compliant
storage arrays.

Which two actions should the administrator take accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

Refer to the Exhibit.

A Storage Policy for a Virtual SAN is set to the default policy, as shown in the Exhibit.

Which change would reduce the storage consumption by one third?

Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator would like to add Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) to an
iSCSI adapter. The administrator accesses the Storage Adapters menu as shown in the Exhibit.

In which tab can the task be accomplished?

An administrator is writing a kickstart script to upgrade an ESXi 6.x host.

In which three locations can the script reside? (Choose three.)

What three supported methods can be used to upgrade a host from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 6.x?
(Choose three.)