VMware 5V0-22.23 - VMware vSAN Specialist v2

To ensure that any virtual machines that are created are placed in the appropriate site, the administrator needs to create VM/Host groups for the two sites and create a storage policy that includes site affinity rules and apply to VMs. VM/Host groups allow the administrator to group virtual machines and hosts based on their location or preference. Site affinity rules specify which site a virtual machine should be placed on or prefer to run on. A single VM/Host group across both sites would not allow the administrator to control the placement of virtual machines. Putting the VMs in a vSphere DRS group or in the correct VM group would not affect their site affinity. References: 1, page 12; 2, section 3.2

To ensure that a single rack failure is not going to affect the data availability, while minimizing the number of racks used, the administrator has to do the following:

Distribute servers across at least three different racks. This is because vSAN supports up to three fault domains per cluster, which can be used to tolerate one or two failures. If only two racks are used, then only one failure can be tolerated4

Configure three fault domains. A fault domain is a logical grouping of hosts that share a common failure point, such as a rack or a power supply. By configuring fault domains, vSAN can place replicas of an object across different fault domains, so that a failure within one fault domain does not result in data loss orunavailability4 References: 4: VMware vSAN Specialist v2 Exam Preparation Guide, page 13