VMware Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR Specialist — Question 40

A vSAN administrator needs to build a vSAN ESA cluster with RAID-5/FTT 1 adaptive storage policy.
What is the absolute minimum number of hosts that need to be part of that vSAN ESA cluster?

Answer options

• A. 6 hosts
• B. 4 hosts
• C. 5 hosts
• D. 3 hosts

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The minimum number of hosts required for a vSAN ESA cluster using RAID-5 with a fault tolerance method of 1 is three. This is because RAID-5 requires at least three hosts to store data and parity information, while the other options exceed this requirement and are not necessary.