QuestionQ132

Installing, Configuring, and Setup

A vSAN administrator is setting up a vSAN Stretched Cluster and must add the vSAN Witness Appliance to the cluster as a host.

Which two methods can the administrator use to complete this task?

Choose two
  • A Deploy and configure the vSAN Witness Appliance from the vSAN Cluster settings
  • B Deploy and configure the vSAN Witness Appliance OVA
  • C Add the vSAN Witness Appliance ESXi host to the vCenter Server
  • D Deploy and configure the vSAN Witness Appliance per site, and then add each to its respective cluster
  • E Add the vSAN Witness Appliance ESXi host to the vSAN cluster
Explanation

For a vSAN Stretched Cluster, the vSAN Witness Appliance can be provisioned either by manually deploying its OVA/OVF template and then adding the resulting ESXi host to vCenter Server before designating it as the witness, or by using the vSAN Cluster configuration wizard's built-in workflow to deploy and configure the witness appliance directly as part of setting up the stretched cluster. In both cases the witness host is kept outside the actual vSAN cluster object and is referenced separately as the fault-domain witness rather than being added as a member host of the vSAN cluster.

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