VMware Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR Specialist — Question 10

Due to a planned power outage, an administrator decides to shut down the vSAN cluster using the Shutdown Cluster Wizard. The administrator starts by checking the vSAN health service to confirm the cluster is healthy and then powers off all virtual machines (VMs) including vCLS VMs.
Which step needs to be taken before starting the Shutdown Cluster Wizard?

Answer options

• A. Place all ESXi hosts into maintenance mode
• B. Disable cluster member updates from vCenter Server
• C. Turn off High Availability
• D. Shutdown vCenter

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Deactivating High Availability is necessary before shutting down the vSAN cluster to prevent any issues related to failover during the shutdown process. The other options, while important for cluster management, do not specifically address the requirement to ensure High Availability is turned off before beginning the shutdown procedure.