VMware App Volumes 4 Specialist — Question 29

A storage administrator is consolidating 2 data centers running on an HCI platform. There is a single site deployment of VMs running on the HCI platform with vSAN encryption. The administrator would like to protect data using replication and has these tools available:
✑ vSphere replication
✑ VM encryption
✑ VMware vSAN
Considering the scenario, which statement is correct?

Answer options

• A. Encrypted VM disks are not supported with VMware vSAN, only encrypted vSAN datastore.
• B. If a source VM has encrypted disks, the VM storage policy must be encrypted.
• C. If source VMs have encrypted disks, the target storage policy cannot include a VM encryption rule.
• D. If VMs have encrypted disks, the VM storage policy has a choice of encrypted or not encrypted.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A, as VMware vSAN does not support encrypted VM disks but does support encrypted vSAN datastores. Option B is incorrect because the VM storage policy does not have to be encrypted if the source VM has encrypted disks. Option C is wrong since the target storage policy can include a VM encryption rule even if source VMs have encrypted disks. Option D is also inaccurate because if the VMs have encrypted disks, the storage policy must be set to encrypted.