QuestionQ9

Planning and Designing

An administrator has deployed a new vSAN OSA cluster containing eight hosts and must configure a storage policy for the currently deployed database virtual machines. The requirements specify that all virtual machines must remain unaffected if two hosts in the vSAN OSA cluster fail.

Which RAID configuration must the administrator use in this storage policy to deliver the best performance for the database virtual machines?

  • A RAID-1
  • B RAID-5
  • C RAID-6
  • D RAID-0
Explanation

For vSAN OSA, an FTT=2 policy can use either RAID-1 mirroring or RAID-6 erasure coding. RAID-1 mirroring provides better performance, while RAID-5/6 erasure coding prioritizes capacity efficiency and reduces performance on vSAN OSA. An eight-host cluster can support RAID-1 with FTT=2, so RAID-1 meets the two-host-failure requirement with the best database performance.

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