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The storage administrator is preparing an action plan to upgrade a Fibre Channel storage array. The current plan will result in extended downtime for a VMFS LUN that is part of a SDRS cluster. What steps can be taken in a vSphere 5.x environment to minimize the impact of the downtime? (Choose two.)
A. Ensure there are multiple active paths to the LUN
B. Ensure DRS is configured properly
C. Use Storage vMotion to migrate the affected VMDKs
D. Place the datastore into maintenance mode
Correct Answer: CD
Explanation/Reference:
Ensure there are multiple active paths to the LUN
False, this will not help during the downtime of the LUN.
Ensure DRS is configured properly
False, this is about sDRS not DRS. What is going offline is not a host, but a fiber storage array, so making sure DRS is working won’t help.
Use Storage vMotion to migrate the affected VMDKs
Correct. While sDRS should handle this if fully automated is selected, doing the migrations manually is feasible as well.
Place the datastore into maintenance mode
Correct. This will allow sDRS to migrate the VMDS from that datastore to another datastore.
