VMware vSphere 6 Beta Foundations — Question 9

An administrator is designing a vSAN cluster for a number of new workloads. The design calls for the use of erasure coding with RAID 5.
Which statement is true about what is needed to meet the needs of this scenario?

Answer options

• A. vSAN Standard licensing is sufficient
• B. vSAN Enterprise licensing is required
• C. An all-flash configuration is required.
• D. Six nodes are required at a minimum.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

To use RAID 5 with erasure coding in vSAN, an all-flash configuration is mandatory because RAID 5 requires high I/O performance and low latency that only all-flash can provide. The other options are incorrect as they do not address the specific requirement of an all-flash setup for RAID 5.