VMware Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR Specialist — Question 49

An administrator must choose between deploying a virtual witness or a physical witness for a vSAN Stretched Cluster. The administrator eventually decides to use a virtual witness.
What is a benefit of selecting this approach?

Answer options

• A. Increased vSAN datastore capacity
• B. Shared metadata between separate clusters
• C. Reduced vSphere licensing
• D. Additional compute capacity for running VMs

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Choosing a virtual witness can lead to reduced vSphere licensing costs because it eliminates the need for additional physical hardware, which often incurs extra licensing fees. The other options do not directly relate to the benefits of using a virtual witness; increased capacity and shared metadata are not impacted by the choice of witness type, and the compute capacity for VMs is not inherently influenced by the witness deployment.