Examen: VMware HCI Master Specialist (5V0-21.21)

Exam Details

The Master Specialist HCI exam (5V0-21.21), which leads to Master Specialist - HCI 2022 certification, is a 55-item exam with a passing score of 300, using a scaled method. Exam time is 100 minutes.

Exam Delivery

This is a proctored exam delivered through Pearson VUE. For more information, visit the Pearson VUE website.

Badge Information

For details and a complete list of requirements and recommendations for attainment, please reference the VMware Education Services - Certification website.

Minimally Qualified Candidate

The minimally qualified candidate will have achieved VCP-DCV and vSAN Specialist certification. Candidates should have 1 year of experience designing, configuring, managing, and upgrading VMware HCI environments. Candidates should be familiar with deployment and administration of VMs using Storage Policy-Based Management. Candidates should have intermediate knowledge of storage, storage hardware, monitoring, and remediation topics, as well as basic networking and security knowledge and must have completed the VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage training. The MOC should have all of the knowledge contained in the exam sections listed below.

Section 1 - Architecture and Technologies - There are no testable objectives for this

Section 2 - VMware Products and Solutions

Objective 2.1 - Given a scenario, identify the VMware products and solutions that will interact with a vSAN solution.
Objective 2.2 - Given a scenario, identify the VMware products and solutions that will consume a vSAN solution.

Section 3 - Planning and Designing

Objective 3.1 - Given a scenario, identify the appropriate vSAN cluster design.
Objective 3.2 - Given a scenario, identify the appropriate vSAN services design.
Objective 3.3 - Use vSAN design and sizing tools (sizing cache tier for workload; no of nodes; VM sizing; Live Optics; HCI Bench etc.)
Objective 3.4 - Given a scenario, identify the implications of integrating VMware solutions with vSAN.
Objective 3.5 - Given a scenario, identify how to plan and size a vSAN implementation.
Objective 3.6 - Given a scenario, identify the use cases for an HCI Mesh infrastructure.

Section 4 - Installing, Configuring, and Setup - There are no testable objectives for this

Section 5 - Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades

Objective 5.1 - Given a scenario, identify the appropriate vSAN upgrade methodology.
Objective 5.2 - Given a scenario, identify how to apply the appropriate maintenance mode option.
Objective 5.3 - Given a scenario, identify the appropriate method for managing disks and disk groups.

Section 6 - Troubleshooting and Repairing

Objective 6.1 - Given a scenario, identify the appropriate action to recover from a vSAN or infrastructure failure.
Objective 6.2 - Given a scenario, identify the appropriate action to troubleshoot performance issues in a vSAN deployment.
Objective 6.3 - Given a scenario, identify the steps to troubleshoot a stretched vSAN cluster.
Objective 6.4 -Evaluate performance information in the UI and using vsantop

Section 7 - Administrative and Operational Tasks

Objective 7.1 - Identify vSAN data placement changes (stretched clusters, fault domains)
Objective 7.2 - Identify the operational tasks required to manage an encrypted vSAN.
Objective 7.3 - Given a scenario, identify the impact of making changes to a storage policy.
Objective 7.4 - Given a scenario, identify the tasks to manage a stretched vSAN cluster.

• (Required)VMware vSAN: Management and Operations [V7]

Recommended Courses:

• VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [V7]
• VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting [V7]