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An administrator has two identical clusters managed by separate Prism Central instances. The guest VMs have pass-through GPUs. A scheduled maintenance is set for one of the clusters. Which option would migrate VMs minimizing downtime?. Run a Recovery Plan planned failover. Use Cross-Cluster Live Migration. Perform a Nutanix Move migration plan. Migrate Asynchronous Protection Domains.

Which two URLs must be accessible from a Connected Site’s Controller VMs to allow Life Cycle Manager (LCM) to download software updates?. download.nutanix.com. mynutanix.com. release-api.nutanix.com. portal.nutanix.com.

An administrator received a request to create a new storage container for persistent desktops. Which storage optimization setting must the administrator set for the best possible capacity savings?. Erasure Coding. Inline compression with a delay of 0 minutes. Inline Deduplication of Read Caches. Post Process Deduplication.

An administrator started an LCM upgrade of the AHV hosts and realized that the upgrades will continue beyond their planned maintenance window. Which feature should be leveraged to prevent additional updates from occurring?. Run the .py script. Use the Stop Update feature in LCM. Restart genesis on the cluster to restart the LCM service. Cancel the LCM tasks via the Ergon command line (ecli).

An administrator would like to plan for new project-related growth. New project workload requirements have been included for a cluster named ClusterXYZ: · 2 Medium Sized SQL Servers · 10 VMs with 16Gb RAM, 4 vCPU, 100GB Storage Which two additional information items should be added to the capacity planning scenario to provide a proper capacity runway expectation? (Choose two.). Storage compression ratio(s) for new workload. Date(s) workload(s) will be added. Existing cluster hardware specifications. Change in Demand percentage.

An administrator is managing two clusters registered to two different Prism Central instances. After configuring a Protection Policy for synchronous replication and verifying data replication, the administrator would like to create a new Recovery Plan with automatic failover. However, the administrator finds that the Recovery Plan workflow offers only manual failure execution mode. What configuration must be fixed to execute the failover automatically?. Verify protected VM are not already part of another Recovery Plan. Modify firewall to open 2030, 2036, 2073, 2090 ports on every local and remote CVM5. Protection Policy must also have a local schedule. Primary Location and Recovery Location must be in the same AZ.

After upgradingPrism Central from PC2022.1 to PC2024.1, an administrator isunable to log inwith theirIAM domain account. What is the first troubleshooting step the administrator should take?. Ping the Domain Controller from the CVM. Ensure port 9441 is open in the firewall. Validate the trusted signing certificate of the organization. Log in with a local admin account.

An administrator is configuring a protection domain for business critical applications, including SQL, Oracle, and Exchange. The administrator needs to evaluate the requirements and limitations for application-consistent snapshots. What action should the administrator take while configuring application-consistent snapshots?. Configure one consistency group for all VMs comprising an App. Configure one consistency group for each VM. Select application consistent snapshot checkbox in consistency group settings only. Ensure that Windows VMs have in-guest mounted VHDX disks.

How can an administrator create a custom Intelligent Operations report, and run across multiple Prism Central instances?. When creating the report, select the other Prism Central instances. Export/import the report configuration in .rpt format. Configure report sharing between Prism Central instances. Manually recreate the report in each Prism Central instance.

Refer to Exhibit: An administrator notices the message shown in the exhibit when navigating to LCM from Prism Central. Which action should the administrator take to update LCM to the latest version?. Run an AOS upgrade. Run an AHV upgrade. Perform an Inventory Scan. Download and install the latest LCM version from a CVM.

An administrator noticeshigh CPU usage on a VMand wants to determine whether addingmore vCPUs would improve performance. Which two metrics should be analyzed to make this decision? (Choose two.). VM CPU Ready Time. VM CPU Usage. Host CPU Usage. Host Memory Swap Out Rate.

Which Nutanix tool provides real-time insights and anomaly detection for a Nutanix environment?. Prism Central. Insights. NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check). LCM (Life Cycle Manager).

Which update in LCM can an administrator apply on a per-node basis?. AOS. BMC. NCC. AHV.

What happens if an agent VM is powered off and then manually started on another host?. Agent VM become unresponsive. Agent VM cannot be migrated back to the original host. Agent VM migrates back to the original host once it's powered on. Agent VM migrates to another host automatically.

Which Nutanix feature helps analyze and predict VM performance issues?. Karbon. Prism Pro X-Play. AHV Turbo. Calm.

An administratormigrated a physical MySQL databasefrom alegacy 3-tier environmentto a Nutanix cluster. After migration, the administrator finds that atpeak load, the number of IOPS is lower than expected, andlatency is higher. Which two steps should the administrator take to improve performance? (Choose two.). Ensure that the SQL data vDisks are thick provisioned. Create additional vDisks for SQL data. Use LVM to stripe the SQL data across multiple vDisks. Ensure that the SQL data vDisks are thin provisioned.

What is the default file system used by Nutanix storage?. NTFS. XFS. NDFS (Nutanix Distributed File System). EXT4.

An administrator is experiencing performance issues within a VM and believes that more vCPU should be added to the specific VM. The cluster as a whole appears to be performing well. Which two metrics should be analyzed to determine if adding more vCPUs is warranted? (Choose two.). VM CPU Usage. VM CPU Ready Time. Host Memory Swap Out Rate. Host CPU usage.

An administrator has configured Metro Availability but a few hours later got an NCC warning: Node x.x.X.X: WARN: Break replication timeout of Metro protection domain 'M1' is below the recommended minimum. What is a possible resolution for this issue?. Update the break_replication_timeout to 10 seconds. Update the break_replication_timeout to 5 milliseconds. Update the break_replication_timeout to 15 milliseconds. Update the break_replication_timeout to 15 seconds.

What happens when a VM is associated with multiple VM-Host affinity policies?. The newest policy takes precedence. The VM is automatically removed from all policies. All policies are applied simultaneously. The oldest policy is applied.

An administrator needs to create asingle chartshowing multiplestorage bandwidth metricsa VM is consuming. Which type of chart should the administrator create?. Metric Chart. Entity Chart. Hypervisor Performance Chart. VM Summary Chart.

An administrator configured aremote site for Protection Domain replication, butnetwork performance and stabilityare impacted. How can the remote site configuration be adjusted to fix the issue?. Configure Network Address Translation (NAT) between the two Nutanix clusters. Configure the Protection Domain with many-to-many replication. Configure a Bandwidth Throttling Policy. Configure the remote Cluster VIP as a proxy.

In a scale-out Prism Central deployment, what additional functionality does configuring an FQDN instead of a Virtual IP provide?. Segmentation. SSL Certificate. Load balancing. Resiliency.

An administrator needs to compare the performance of two VMs that are running on separate Nutanix clusters. When creating an Analysis chart in Prism Central Intelligent Operations, the administrator discovers that it is not possible to add VM metrics for IOPS and CPU utilization to the same chart. How should the administrator resolve this issue?. Create an Entity chart instead of a Metric chart. Ensure that both VMs have the same number of vCPUs provisioned. Migrate one of the VMs so that both VMs are running on the same cluster. Create separate charts for metrics with different units of measurement.

An administrator needs to calculate baseline Capacity Runway on a newly registered AHV cluster. The cluster has been operating for 16 days, but no runway projections appear. Why are no Capacity Runway projections being displayed?. Capacity Planning requires at least 30 days of data. Capacity Planning requires at least 6 months of data. Capacity Planning requires at least 3 months of data. Capacity Planning requires at least 21 days of data.

An administrator is configuringProtection Policiesto replicate VMs to aNutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2)over the internet. To comply with security policies, how should data be protected during transmission?. Configure Data on a self-encrypting drive. Configure VMs to use UEFI Secure Boot. Enable Data-at-Rest Encryption. Enable Data-in-Transit Encryption.

An administrator recently attempted to enable Data-in-Transit Encryption on a scale-out Prism Central clusterto ensure service-level traffic is encrypted between cluster nodes. After attempting to enable the feature, it did not function because of firewall restrictions. Which CVM-specific port must be allowed through the firewall for Data-in-Transit Encryption?. 2009. 2010. 2020. 9440.

A new employee has inherited a partially configured Disaster Recovery (DR) schema. Source workloads have been identified and Nutanix Guest Tools has been installed. There are two Protection Polices in place, one with an asynchronous schedule with a 1-hour RPO and a second policy utilizing synchronous replication. All of these workloads need to be recovered at a DR location and this will be orchestrated by Prism Central Recovery Plans. What is the best way to setup this recovery orchestration?. Identify the workload startup order and create Recovery Plans corresponding to the startup order. Setup a Recovery Plan for the asynchronous replication and convert the synchronous replication to a Protection Domain. Setup two Recovery Plans, one for the asynchronous replication and one for the synchronous replication. Setup a single Recovery Plan utilizing stages of recovery delays as needed.

An administrator has been tasked with performingfirmware upgradesfor all Nutanix sites. When attempting to performfirmware upgrades via Life Cycle Manager (LCM)at aremote site with a single-node cluster, no firmware updates are listed as available. The administrator confirmed that the currently installed firmware isseveral revisions behind. Why are no firmware upgrades listed in LCM for this cluster?. Single-node clusters only support one-disk firmware upgrades. LCM is not supported on single-node clusters. LCM cannot perform firmware upgrades on single-node clusters. LCM does not have connectivity to the internet.

An administrator would like to create a Playbook where VM protection has failed for VMs in category: CriticalApps:Alerts. The administrator needs to create an alert for only the VMs in the CriticalApps:Alerts category. The alert must send a notification to the on- call personnel in the event that a VM Protection Failed Alert is triggered. How should the administrator complete this task?. Create a Playbook with a Manual trigger. Create a Playbook with an Alert Matching Criteria trigger. Create a Playbook with an Event-based trigger. Create a Playbook with an Alert-based trigger.

Due to application requirements, an administrator needs to modify an AHV VM in order to support a large number of distinct, concurrent connections. The VM has the following configuration: • VCPUs: 4 • RAM: 20 GB Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Which modification can the administrator make to improve network performance for network I/O-intensive applications running on this VM?. Enabling RSS Virtio-Net Multi-Queue. Adding more VCPUs. Adding more RAM. Enabling AHV Turbo Technology.

An administrator is trying to delete a protected snapshot but is unable to do so. What is the most likely cause?. Ransomware has encrypted the snapshot. The snapshot has been corrupted. There is an active recovery occurring at that time. There is an approval policy that was denied.

What is the main function of NearSync Replication in Nutanix?. Provides synchronous data replication with zero RPO. Replicates data with an RPO of less than 1 minute. Backs up VM snapshots to external cloud storage. Migrates workloads between clusters automatically.

What is the best way to automate the deployment of 100 Linux VMs with similar configurations but different hostnames, local configurations, and install packages?. Manual configuration. Cloud-Init configuration. SysPrep Configuration. VM template configuration.

In Nutanix, what is the purpose of Storage QoS?. To increase the size of virtual machines dynamically. To manage data locality within a Nutanix cluster. To limit IOPS consumption of specific workloads. To enable deduplication and compression.

What guest customization options are available when creating a VM template?. Custom Script. Guided Script. Sysprep. Cloud-init.

A Linux VM provides services for multiple clients on a single large subnet. The number of clients varies over time. The clients consist of VMs and physical systems. The administrator observed network performance problems on the Linux VM when going over 2,000 client connections. Which action can be performed to mitigate the issue?. Enable RSS VirtIO-Net Multi-Queue. Configure vNIC to operate in trunk mode. Add multiple vNICs to the virtual machine. Change VirtIO-Net vNIC to e1000 model.

An administrator is configuring Protection Policies to replicate VMs to a new Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) connected via the Internet. To comply with an organizational security policy, data sent via the Internet must be encrypted. Which feature should be taken into account to be compliant?. Configure Data on a self-encrypting drive. Configure VMs to use UEFI secure boot. Enable Data at Rest Encryption. Enable Data-in-Transit Encryption.

An administrator is managing a4-node clusterwithdifferent hardware generations: Two G5 Nodes# 2 CPUs (12 cores), 1 SSD (1.92 TB), 2 HDDs (4 TB). Two G7 Nodes# 2 CPUs (16 cores), 2 SSDs (1.92 TB), 4 HDDs (4 TB). The cluster will bedecommissioned from productionand used forDisaster Recovery (DR) purposeswithan RPO of 1 hour. What is the best approach when replacing G5 nodes without impacting performance?. New node must have at least 2 SSDs. New node must be G7 or G8. New node must have 2 CPUs with 12 cores. New node must be hybrid.

An administrator wants toensure that user VMs on AHV hostscan take advantage ofbandwidth beyond a single adapter in a bond. Which uplink Bond Type should the administrator configure to accomplish this?. No Uplink Bond. Active-Active. Active-Active with MAC pinning. Active-Backup.

When expanding a cluster, what is required to automatically discover nodes?. IPv6 multicast allowed on physical switches. New nodes have same hypervisor versions. IPv4 multicast allowed on physical switches. New nodes have same AOS versions.

When expanding acluster, what is required toautomatically discover new nodes?. New nodes must have the same hypervisor version. IPv6 multicast must be allowed on physical switches. New nodes must have the same AOS version. IPv4 multicast must be allowed on physical switches.

What Nutanix feature helps improve performance by ensuring that VM data remains on the same node where the VM is running?. Data Tiering. Data Locality. Replication Factor. Prism Insights.

An administrator observes an alert in Prism for ahybrid SSD/HDD cluster: "Storage Pool SSD utilization consistently above 75%." What is the potential impact of this condition?. The cluster is unable to sustain an SSD disk failure. The cluster may be nearly out of storage for metadata. The cluster is at risk of entering a read-only state. Average I/O latency in the cluster may increase.

Which tool in Nutanix can be used to gather logs for troubleshooting and support?. Nutanix Move. X-Ray. NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check). LCM (Life Cycle Manager).

Due toapplication requirements, an administrator needs to support amulticast configurationin anAHV cluster. Which AHV feature can be used to optimize network traffic so that multicast traffic is only forwarded to the VMs that need to receive it?. LACP. UDP. IGMP Snooping. Network Segmentation.

How can a VM or Volume Group (VG) be associated with a Storage Policy?. Assign the Storage Policy directly on the VM or VG. Assign the VM or VG directly to the Storage Policy. Migrate the VM or VG to the Storage Container assigned to the Storage Policy. Assign the VM or VG to the same Category as the Storage Policy.

An administrator is responsible for resource planning and needs to plan for resiliency of an RF3 cluster. The cluster has 100 TB of storage. How would the administrator plan for capacity in the event of future failures?. Set Reserve Capacity For Failure to None. Set Reserve Memory Capacity (%) to 20. Set Reserve Capacity For Failure to Auto Detect. Set Reserve Storage Capacity (%) to 20.

Refer to Exhibit: An administrator sees the alert shown in the exhibit. What should the administrator do to ensure the nutanix user can no longer SSH to a CVM using a password?. Rename the nutanix user. Block port 22 on the CVM firewall. Enable Cluster Lockdown. Delete the nutanix user.

A Disaster Recovery administrator has setup a Protection Policy for 50 workloads - all configured in a similar fashion in terms of OS, storage, network, and performance. The RPO is 60 minutes with a specified retention of 10 copies local, 5 copies remote, and crash consistency. After configuring the Protection Policy and activating it, the administrator has noticed that recovery points are not showing up in DR. Yet, everything within the Protection Policy looks correct and recovery points are showing up on production side. What is the most likely issue?. Nutanix NGT is not installed on the source VMs. The storage container RF factor of the protected VMs is not the same as the RF factor in the DR cluster container. Windows updates need to be run on all the affected VMs. The storage container name of the protected VMs is not the same as the DR cluster storage container.

Refer to Exhibit: After adding new workloads, why is Overall Runway below 365 daysandthe scenario still shows the cluster is in good shape?. Because the Target is 1 month. Because there are recommended resources. Because Storage Runway is still good. Because new workloads are sustainable.

Refer to Exhibit: After adding new workloads, why is Overall Runway below 365 daysand the scenario still shows the cluster is in good shape?. Because Storage Runway is still good. Because new workloads are sustainable. Because there are recommended resources. Because the Target is 1 month.

An administrator is trying to configure Metro Availability between Nutanix ESXi-based clusters. However, the Compatible Remote Sitesscreen does not list all required storage containers. Which two reasons could be a cause for this issue? (Choose two.). Source and destination hardware are from different vendors. The remote site storage container has compression enabled. The destination storage container is not empty. Both storage containers must have the same name.

Which Nutanix solution integrates with third-party backup tools for long-term data retention?. Nutanix Move. Nutanix Leap. Nutanix Mine. Nutanix Beam.

Which Nutanix solution integrates with third-party backup tools for long-term data retention?. Nutanix Move. Nutanix Leap. Nutanix Mine. Nutanix Beam.

Which Nutanix feature predicts future resource utilization and capacity needs?. Xi IoT. Nutanix Beam. Prism Pro Capacity Planning. Nutanix Move.

An administrator migrated a physical MySQL database to a Nutanix cluster. After migration, peak load IOPS are lower than expected and latency is higher. Which two steps should the administrator take to improve this behavior? (Choose two.). Create additional vDisks for SQL data. Use LVM to stripe the SQL data across multiple vDisks. Ensure that SQL data vDisks are thin provisioned. Ensure that SQL data vDisks are thick provisioned.

What feature allows receiving a weekly message about infrastructure performance summary?. Admin Center Life Cycle Manager. Prism Central Syslog. Infrastructure VMs List. Intelligent Operations Reports.

Due to requirements from the network team, a Nutanix administrator must create User VMs on VLAN 10 on multiple AHV clusters. What network configuration should the administrator consider in order to ensure consistent connectivity for User VMs on VLAN 10?. Bond Type. MAC Address Prefix. Virtual Switch Configuration. MTU.

After adding new workloads, why is Overall Runway below 365 days and the scenario still shows the cluster is in good shape?. There are recommended resources. Because the target is 1 month. Because new workloads are sustainable. Because Storage Runway is still good.

An administrator needs to perform an LCM upgradeon an AHV host with GPUs. What additional step is required before upgrading the host?. Create an agent VM on each host that has GPU drivers installed. Run LCM in dark site mode so it can update AHV independently. Use Direct Uploads to upload appropriate driver bundles. Update NCC to the latest version and re-run Inventory.

A Disaster Recovery administrator has set up a Protection Policy for 50 workloads, all configured similarly. The RPO is 60 minutes with a specified retention of 10 local copies, 5 remote copies, and crash consistency. After activation,recovery points are not appearing at the DR site, even though they are visible on the production side. What is the most likely issue?. Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) is not installed on the source VMs. Windows updates need to be applied to all affected VMs. The storage container name on the DR cluster does not match the production cluster. The storage container RF factor does not match in both clusters.

An administrator receives complaints about VM performance. After reviewing theVM’s CPU Ready Timedata shown in the exhibit, which step should the administrator take to diagnose the issue further?. Check the number of vCPUs assigned to each CVM. Review host CPU utilization. Assess cluster SSD capacity. Enable VM memory oversubscription.

Which networking component in AHV is responsible for providing network connectivity to virtual machines?. Controller VM (CVM). Virtual Switch (vSwitch). Nutanix Files. RDMA.

Which two actions occur by default on a node that is placed inMaintenance Mode? (Choose two.). Non-migratable VMs are powered off and restarted on other hosts in the cluster. All eligible VMs on the host are migrated to other hosts in the cluster. All eligible VMs on the host are powered off. Non-migratable VMs are powered off.

Which two entities can be categorized? (Choose two.). Storage Containers. Alerts. Virtual Machines. ISO Images.

An administrator is preparing for afirmware upgradeon a host and wants to manuallymigrate VMs before executing the LCM upgrade. However,one VM is unable to migratewhile others migrate successfully. Which action would fix the issue?. Enable Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling (ADS) at the cluster level. Update Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP). Disable Agent VM within the VM configuration options. Configure backplane port groups that are assigned to the CVM.

An administrator experiences a Recovery Plan failure for a cross-hypervisor (ESXi to AHV) DR test. Guest VMs do not recover at the DR location. Which configuration is required for a successful event?. Deploy Legacy BIOS boot on hosts within the cluster. Nutanix Guest Tools must be installed on source guest VMs. Use raw device mappings. Utilize delta disks.

An administrator is managing an environment based on two different AHV-based and ESXi-based clusters. Workloads are evenly distributed and in a healthy state. A Linux VM running on ESXi is not performing well at the storage level and is configured as follows: • VCPU: 8 • VRAM: 32 • vDisk: 3, first 100 GB, second 250 GB, third 250 GB What is the easiest way to test VM performance, while minimizing downtime?. Increase the number of vCPUs. Migrate the VM to the AHV cluster. Enable vDisk sharding at AOS level. Collapse the second and the third disk into a single one.

An administrator needs to create astorage containernamed TestData with the following conditions: Replication Factor (RF) = 1 (RF1) Inline Compression enabled Deduplication disabled Maximum storage capacity = 100 GiB How should the administrator complete this task?. Log into Prism Element and create the storage container with anAdvertised Capacity of 100 GiB. Log into Prism Element and create the storage container. Log into Prism Central and create the storage container with a Reserved Capacity of 100 GiB. Log into Prism Central and create the storage container.

A user created areportin theIntelligent Operations Analysis Dashboardbut forgot to download it. However, after logging back into Prism Central, the administrator finds that thereport is no longer available. What is the most likely cause?. A user with Cluster Viewer role deleted the report. The user-generated report was archived. Reports are automatically deleted after 24 hours. The report is stored in the cluster’s Prism Element.

A company is evaluating Nutanix DR to protect some business critical applications and tasked an administrator to find an optimal configuration providing highest resiliency and lowest RPO to the production environment. The company's production environment is deployed on two physical sites with each hosting one AHV-based cluster. What configuration will meet the company's requirements?. Deploy one Prism Central instance on each site and configure synchronous replication using Protection Policy. Deploy Prism Central instance on one of the sites. Configure NearSync replication using Protection Domains. Deploy Prism Central instance on each site. Configure Metro Availability using Protection Domains. Deploy Prism Central instance on one of the sites, configure Prism Central Disaster Recovery, and setup Metro AHV.

An administrator has been tasked with monitoring performance across a number of different entities in the Nutanix cluster. The CIO has asked the administrator to provide Analysis charts that show performance as granularly as possible. Given this request, what is the smallest preset time interval (in hours) that the administrator can select in a Metric or Entity Chart?. 1. 3. 12. 24.

An administrator is responsible forresource planningand needs to plan forresiliencyof a10-node RF3 cluster. The cluster has 100TB of storage. How should the administrator plan for capacity in the event of future failures?. Set Reserve Storage Capacity (%) to 20. Set Reserve Capacity for Failure to None. Set Reserve Capacity for Failure to Auto Detect. Set Reserve Memory Capacity (%) to 20.

The team leads of a development environment want to limit developer access to a specific set of VMs. What is the most efficient way to enable the team leads to directly manage these VMs?. Create a role mapping for each team lead and assign appropriately. Create a project for each team lead and assign access. Create a VPC for each team lead and give them VPC Admin. Create Security Policies to isolate users.

An administrator is working with a local network engineer to design the network architecture for a Disaster Recovery (DR) failover. Because DNS is well designed and implemented, DR will utilize a different subnet from production. To make planning and execution easy to implement, the network engineer would like to utilize the same last octet in DR. What is the best way to achieve this?. Utilize a custom script to update the IP address after instantiation in DR. Utilize Plan Offset-based IP mapping. Log into the VMs after the DR event and update the IP address last octet. Setup IPAM so the address can be dynamically assigned during DR.

The team leads of a development environmentwant tolimit developer accessto a specific set of VMs. What is the most efficient way to enable the team leads to directly manage these VMs?. Create a role mapping for each team lead and assign appropriately. Create a VPC for each team lead and give them VPC Admin. Create a Project for each team lead and assign access. Create Security Policies to isolate users.

In an RF2 cluster, what is the minimum number of nodes requiredto allow a host removal?. 2. 3. 4. 5.

What additional step is required for LCM to upgrade an AHV host that has GPUs?. Use Direct Uploads to upload appropriate driver bundles. Run LCM in dark site mode so it can update AHV independently. Create an agent VM on each host that has GPU drivers installed. Update NCC to the latest version and re-run Inventory.

An administrator wants todisable password-based SSH accessfor thenutanix useron a CVM to improve security. What action should the administrator take?. Rename thenutanix user. Blockport 22 on the CVM firewall. Enable Cluster Lockdown. Delete the nutanix user.

A company is evaluating Nutanix Disaster Recovery (DR) to protect multiple business-critical applications. Some applications are built using a3-tier architecture and have interdependencies. After failover, the VM's static IP address is retained, but DNS configuration is lost. How should an administrator proceed to resolve this issue?. Configure Self-Service Restore. Create custom in-guest scripts to preserve the statically assigned DNS IP addresses. Install Network Manager command-line tool (nncli) in the protected Windows VMs. Configure a Protection Domain.

Refer to Exhibit: In ascale-out Prism Central deployment, what additional functionality does configuring an FQDN instead of a Virtual IP provide?. Load balancing. Resiliency. Segmentation. SSL Certificate.

An administrator has configured AHV Metro with Witness and wants to document different failover scenarios. As part of the failover tests, the following link losses were simulated: • Loss of connectivity between the two metro clusters • Loss of connectivity between the primary cluster and Prism Central However, Prism Central and the recovery cluster remain connected. Which two system behaviors are expected? (Choose two.). Guest VM I/O operations pause until connectivity between the primary and recovery clusters or the primary cluster and Prism Central is restored. Guest VM I/O operations pause until connectivity between the primary and recovery clusters or any of the clusters and Prism Central is restored. Guest VMs continue to run on the primary cluster. Guest VMs fail over automatically to the recovery cluster.

An administrator using adark site deployment for LCMis attempting toupgrade to the latest BIOS. After completing an inventory scan, the administrator doesnot see the expected BIOS version available for upgrade. What is the most likely reason the latest BIOS is not shown?. AOS needs to be upgraded first. The latest compatibility bundle has not been uploaded. The BMC version needs to be upgraded first. The dark site webserver is not accessible.

An administrator receives analert in Prismstating: "Storage container <container_name> on cluster <cluster_name> will run out of storage resources in approximately 1 day." However, the cluster hasplenty of available space remaining. What configuration setting is causing the container to run out of space while the cluster has space remaining?. Advertised Capacity is set too low. Reserved Capacity is set too high. Compression is set too low. Replication Factor is set too high.

A user has created a report in the Intelligent Operations Analysis Dashboard but forgot to download it. After logging back into Prism Central, the administrator finds that the report is no longer available. Which option explains this behavior?. Reports are automatically deleted after 24 hours. A user with Cluster Viewer role deleted the report. The report is stored in the cluster's Prism Element. The user-generated report was archived.

An administrator needs to apply a firmware upgrade to a host and wants to manually migrate VMs before executing an LCM upgrade. All VMs but one are able to be live migrated. Which action would fix the issue?. Configure backplane port groups that are assigned to CVM. Update Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP). Disable Agent VM within VM configuration options. Enable ADS (Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling) at the cluster level.

An administrator has received complaints about VM performance. After reviewing the VM’s CPU Ready Time data shown in the exhibit, which step should the administrator take to diagnose the issue further?. Enable VM memory oversubscription. Review host CPU utilization. Assess cluster SSD capacity. Check the number of CPUs assigned to each CVM.

An administrator is executing a storage performance test between two Microsoft Windows VMs. The first VM was deployed by using a template, while the second one was created from scratch. Results show that VMs have very different metrics when using the same performance test. The first VM reaches 8000 IOPS, while the second struggles reaching 500/800 IOPS. Currently the AHV cluster is not under pressure. How can the administrator determine why these results were produced?. Verify both VMs have installed Nutanix Guest Tools. Enable AHV Turbo on the second VM. Compare vDisk bus type between VMs. Check number of VCPUs assigned to VMs.

An administrator has deployed two Nutanix clusters and is now establishing synchronous replication between them. However, the replication is failing immediately. Which two responses show the reason and corrective action an administrator can take to resolve the issue? (Choose two.). If the primary and the recovery clusters are in different subnets, open the ports manually for communication. If the primary and the recovery clusters are on the same subnet, open the ports manually for communication. Use the command modify_firewall to open the ports on eth1 interface. Use the command modify_firewall to open the ports on eth0 interface.

The administrator sees an alert stating that the “nutanix” user should not be allowed to SSH to the CVM using a password. What should the administrator do to ensure the nutanix user can no longer SSH to a CVM using a password?. Enable Cluster Lockdown. Block port 22 on the CVM firewall. Rename the user. Delete the nutanix user.

An administrator has been tasked with creating a new storage container named Test Data. The Test Data storage container must meet the following conditions: • Replication Factor 1 (RF1) • Inline Compression enabled • Deduplication disabled • Maximum storage capacity of 100 GiB How should the administrator complete this task?. Log into Prism Central and create the storage container with a Reserved Capacity of 100 GiB. Log into Prism Element and create the storage container. Log into Prism Element and create the storage container with an Advertised Capacity of 100 GiB. Log into Prism Central and create the storage container.

An administrator wants tolive-migrate a vGPU-enabled VMfrom one host to another within the same cluster. What requirements must be met before initiating the migration?. The target host has sufficient resources to support the VM. The vGPU profile needs to be changed. The VM must be configured as an agent VM. The host affinity for the VM must be set to a specific host.

Within Intelligent Operations, Capacity Configurations have been set to Auto Detect for Reserve Capacity For Failure. For an RF2 cluster with 10 nodes, what effect does this have on Capacity Runway?. Reserves storage and memory from the largest node to account for a single node failure. Reserves RAM and CPU from the fastest node to account for a single node failure. Reserves CPU, RAM and storage from the largest node to account for a single node failure. Reserves 10% of CPU, memory and storage to account for a single node failure.

An administrator wants to ensure that user VMs on AHV hosts can take advantage of bandwidth available beyond a single adapter in a bond. Which uplink Bond Type should the administrator configure?. Active-backup. Active-Active with MAC pinning. Active-Active. No uplink bond.

An administrator is experiencingstorage performance issueson aWindows Server 2019 VMwith the following configuration: vCPU: 1 VRAM: 8 GB vSCSI: VirtIO SCSI Controller vDisk: 2 (100 GB, 250 GB) vNIC: VirtIO Fast Ethernet TheAHV cluster is healthy, andother Windows VMs are performing well. Which configuration change should be reviewed to enhance VM performance?. Add a second virtual storage controller (vSCSI). Enable Balance-TCP on bridge (br0). Increase Controller VM (CVM) resources. Increase the VM’s number of vCPUs.

An administrator is configuring Nutanix Disaster Recovery (DR) for across-hypervisor setup (ESXi to AHV) but finds that guest VMs do not recover properly at the DR location. What is required for a successful cross-hypervisor DR event?. Utilize delta disks. Deploy Legacy BIOS boot on hosts within the cluster. Use raw device mappings. Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) must be installed on source guest VMs.

An administrator is configuring areplication scheduleonmultiple remote locationsdeployed using asingle-node cluster. The goal is to achieve thelowest possible RPO (Recovery Point Objective). How should the administrator configure the replication schedule?. Configure NearSync replication. Configure a schedule for 16 minutes up to 59 minutes. Configure Async replication. Configure a schedule for 1 minute up to 15 minutes.

An administrator has been tasked with performing firmware upgrades for all their Nutanix sites. When attempting to perform firmware upgrades via Life Cycle Manager (LCM) at a remote site with a single-node cluster deployed, no firmware updates are listed as being available. The administrator confirmed the currently installed firmware is several revisions behind. Why are there no firmware upgrades listed in LCM for this cluster?. LCM does not have access to the internet. Single-node clusters only support one-click firmware upgrades. LCM cannot perform firmware upgrades on single-node clusters. LCM is not supported on single-node clusters.

Which Nutanix feature helps optimize storage space by removing duplicate blocks of data?. Data Locality. Compression. Deduplication. Replication.

If an administratorcreates a report with no retention policy configured, how many instances of the report areretained by default?. 5. 10. 15. 20.

Which task should be performed first when upgrading host memory?. Gracefully stop the host by using the out of band management interface. Remove node from the cluster. Execute "shutdown -h now" from the AHV command line interface. Place node into the maintenance mode.

An administrator is receiving repeated approval requests to delete a protected snapshot that has already been approved. What is the likely cause?. There is an error with the SMTP server. The Policy Engine wasn't implemented. The administrator is an approver on the approval policy. There are multiple approvers on the approval policy.

What would cause an LCM pre-check event with the test_esx_entering_mm_pinned_vms check during an AOS upgrade?. HA priority settings are misconfigured. Host has insufficient memory. VMs on the host have high CPU usage. Affinity rules are configured to prevent VM migration.

Which Nutanix product is used for automating application deployment across clouds?. Xi Frame. Calm. Flow. Prism Central.

An administrator is working with anetwork engineerto design thenetwork architecture for a DR failover. Because DNS is well-designed, theDR site will use a different subnetbutretain the same last octet in the IP address. What is the best way to achieve this?. Use a custom script to update the IP address after instantiation in DR. Set up IPAM so the address is dynamically assigned during DR. Manually log into VMs after the DR event and update the last octet. Utilize Recovery Plan Offset-based IP mapping.

Upon reaching the maximum instances of retained reports, what occurs?. New reporting is delayed. Reporting failure is reported. Manual deletion is required. Oldest report is deleted.

Which Nutanix feature allows users to clone multiple VMs from a single template efficiently?. One-Click Upgrade. Fast Clone. Prism Central. Image Service.

A company has custom applications storing data on Volume Groups (VGs). The data and application VMs must maintain integrity in case of a cluster failure and require the lowest possible RPO. An administrator is evaluating Nutanix DR options. How should the administrator achieve this goal?. Configure Metro AHV using protection policies and recovery plans, use PC as a Witness. Configure Synchronous replication using protection policies and recovery plans. Configure Synchronous replication using protection policies and recovery plans. Place VMs and VGs in the same consistency group. Configure NearSync replication using protection domains. Place VMs and VGs in the same consistency group.

Which predefined view in Prism Central’s Intelligent Operations should be used to determine which VM is consuming excessive resources and causing performance issues for others?. Inactive VMs List. Overprovisioned VMs List. Bully VMs List. Constrained VMs List.

An administrator was tasked with configuring a Nutanix Disaster Recovery solution and has established synchronous replication between the sites. For additional resiliency, each site is running its own Prism Central instance managing the local AHV cluster. An administrator was notified that a failover is required for a planned datacenter maintenance on the primary site. In which two ways should the administrator proceed? (Choose two.). Perform on-demand live migration between the clusters. Conduct a planned failover from the standby site. Conduct an unplanned failover from the primary site. Conduct a planned failover from the primary site.

Which feature deploys a temporary VM that allows an administrator to log in and apply OS patches to a VM template?. Create VM from Template. Complete Guest OS Update. Update Configuration. Update Guest OS.

An administrator needs tooptimize a VM’s storageby leveragingcompression features. The VM’svDisksare currently stored in adefault storage container with no optimizations enabled. How should the administrator proceed?. Migrate vDisks to the Production storage container. Recreate the VM in the Production storage container and copy data. Migrate the VM to the Production storage container. Recreate the vDisk in the Production storage container and copy data.

Which prerequisite should be met before any LCM updates are performed?. Update AOS. Update Foundation. Update AHV. Update BIOS.

An administrator needs tocreate a storage containerforVM disks. The container must meet the following conditions: 10 GiB of the total allocated space must not be used by other containers. The container must have a maximum storage capacity of 500 GiB. What settings should the administrator configure while creating the storage container?. Set Advertised Capacity to 10 GiB and Reserved Capacity to 500 GiB. Set Advertised Capacity to 10 GiB. Set Reserved Capacity to 500 GiB. Set Reserved Capacity to 10 GiB and Advertised Capacity to 500 GiB.

Refer to Exhibit: An administrator is looking at thememory cluster runway diagramas shown in exhibit, in Prism Central. The environment hasthree hostswith the following configuration: CPU: 2x Intel Xeon Gold (8 cores, 2.6 GHz) RAM: 256 GB per host Storage: SSDs and HDDs The Intelligent Operations feature has been active for one month, but no further configurations were applied. What does the dotted red line mean?. It is the default trend analysis static threshold that can be manually set. It is the maximum memory the administrator can assign to VMs. It is the calculated memory over subscription limit for currently running VMs. It is the usable capacity based on cluster configuration options.

Which feature allows a Nutanix administrator to perform non-disruptive upgrades of software and firmware?. Prism Central. One-Click Upgrade. Pulse Monitoring. Data Replication.

An administrator needs to configure NTP on Prism Central running on a Hyper-V cluster. How should the administrator complete this task?. Add an external NTP server. Add the DNS server IP. Add a server with a DNS hostname. Add the IP of the Domain Controller.

An administrator want to create a VM with memory overcommit features enabled in Nutanix environment. Which statement best describes how the administrator will perform this VM creation?. Memory overcommit can be enabled while creating a VM using Prism Element Web Console. Memory overcommit can only be updated using the Prism Central console. Memory overcommit can only be updated using the Prism Element Web Console once VM created. Memory overcommit can not be enabled for VM from the Prism Central console.

An administrator has been tasked by the company's leadership to justify and explain the decision to utilize the new Nutanix Disaster Recovery solution. The environment contains: • 100 workloads • Workloads have varying boot orders • Workloads span multiple subnets • Workloads span across different business units How should the administrator most efficiently organize and manage the workloads?. Utilize RESTful APIs to script creation of Recovery Plans. Utilize Categories to organize VMs in Recovery Plans. Utilize a 1:10 ratio of Recovery Plan to VMs. Utilize a VM naming schema that allows sorting.

Which feature in Nutanix AHV provides network microsegmentation to enhance VM security?. Flow. Acropolis SDN. Nutanix Prism. vSwitch.

A cluster has an RF3 storage container with many VMs. Before the cluster runs out of space, the administrator has created a new RF2 storage container and would like to live migrate the vDisks. Which check should be done before performing vDisk migration?. Validate network latency is below 5 milliseconds. Remove VMs from Protection Domains or Protection Policies. Verify Multichannel Support is enabled. Ensure storage optimization options match between storage containers.

A consultant is configuring syslog monitoringand wants to receive CRITICAL logsfrom the Audit module. Which severity level setting should be configured to get the desired output?. 0. 2. 5. 7.

An administrator is trying to troubleshoot the environment after NCC raised an alert: Detailed information for remote_site_connectivity_check: Node x.x.x.x: WARN: Failed to connect to the remote site <remote_site>. Which two steps should an administrator follow to provide a solution? (Choose two.). Confirm that the remote cluster is reachable, and ports 2009 and 2020 are open between the clusters. Configure Network Address Translation performed by any device in between the two Nutanix clusters. If the remote site has been re-configured and the cluster has a new cluster incarnation ID, re-create the remote site. Check if ping packets with an MTU of 9000 reach the destination cluster.

An administrator has successfully configuredMetro Availability for a Protection Domain. However, after a few days, anNCC warning is raised: "Following VMs are accessing data from remote clusters: VM-1 from remote cluster Remote-ML" What is the first action an administrator must take to fix the issue?. Run the command: ncli pd list metro-avail=true | egrep "Protection Domain Stretch Role" | grep "ACTIVE". Use must-affinity rules to avoid automated VM migration to the standby datastore. Migrate the VM to its primary site and set appropriate rules for DRS and affinity. Run the command: ncc health_checks metro_availability_checks data_locality_check --cvm_list=X.X.X. 20.

An administrator needs to ensure that aVM is powered on before the rest of the VMswhen starting a host. Which configuration option allows this behavior?. Recovery Plan. Host Affinity. High Availability. Agent VM.

In afive-node cluster, an administrator noticed thatthree VMsare consuming too many resources on a single host. Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling (ADS) is not able to migrate these VMs. What is the most likely reason preventing ADS from migrating these VMs?. VMs use a Volume Group. VMs use GPU pass-through. VM-VM anti-affinity policy is set. VMs use external Network Attached Storage.

Per organizational requirements, an administrator has uploaded a signed SSL certificate to Prism for Common Access Card (CAC) authentication. Once the certificate has been uploaded successfully, the certificate appears to be valid but CAC authentication is not functional. What is a potential cause of this problem?. There is no Certificate Revocation List (CRL) configured. RSA key size is incorrect. Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is not enabled. Signature Algorithm is incorrect.

Which hypervisors are officially supported by Nutanix for running virtualized workloads?. VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV. Citrix XenServer, KVM, Nutanix AHV. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware ESXi, KVM. OpenStack, Proxmox, Nutanix AHV.

LCM Framework Check A Lcm prechecks detected 3 issues that would cause upgrade failures. Check test lacp_configuration' failed: test_lacp_configuration: Unable to find Vcenter details for connection. Please refer to KB 14277 Check test esx_ha_enabled' failed: Unable to find Vcenter details for connection Check test_es_entering_mm_pinned_vms' failed: Unable to find Vcenter details for connection X LCM Framework Check An administrator is attempting to upgrade the NIC firmware on a Nutanix cluster and sees the error displayed in the exhibit. Which log is the most appropriate to analyze the LCM precheck failure?. genesis.out. lcm_ops.out. lcm_wget.out. catalog.out.

An administrator is planning for an upcoming maintenance window. The administrator would like to minimize the chance of an upgrade failure during the maintenance window to ensure the updates will complete without issue. What action should the administrator take to reduce the risk of any potential failures during an upgrade?. Upgrade AOS to the latest version from LCM. Run an Upgrade Precheck from LCM. Reboot each CVM one-at-a-time to ensure the reboots are successful. Reboot each host one-at-a-time to ensure the reboots are successful.

The customer expects to maintain a cluster runway of 9 months. The customer doesn’t have a budget for 6 months but they want to add new workloads to the existing cluster. Based on the exhibit, what is required to meet the customer's budgetary timeframe?. Add resources to the cluster. Postpone the start of new workloads. Delete workloads running on the cluster. Change the target to 9 months.

What feature does Nutanix provide to enable asynchronous replication for disaster recovery?. Metro Availability. Protection Domains. Snapshots. Prism Element.

An administrator is tasked with ensuring the resiliency of Tier-1 workloads. As such, the administrator creates a Protection Policy with a crash-consistent snapshot period that meets RPO while maintaining 10 recovery points locally and 5 at DR location. Since it is difficult to quantify how long a DR event will last, management wants the Tier-1 workloads to always have 10 recovery points locally. How can this be achieved logically and most efficiently?. Change retentions within the Protection Policy to be 10 at both locations and Save Schedule. Enable Reverse Retention within the Protection Policy Schedule. Utilize a script that executes an API to take the requisite number of recovery points post- DR. Post DR, recreate the Protection Policy with new/updated values.

An administrator is tasked with protection of a business critical application. The application is running on a Linux VM and is using a custom DB that require application consistent snapshots for data integrity. An administrator has written a pre_freeze and post_thaw scripts and placed them under /usr/local/sbin/. During protection domain scheduled run an alert is generated: Execution of the PostThaw Script Failed Which two resolution steps could an administrator conduct to fix the issue? (Choose two.). Ensure that scripts have nutanix user ownership and admin access. Review the NGT logs under /usr/local/sbin/post_thaw. Ensure NGT service is up and running. Execute scripts manually and ensure they succeed.

Refer to the Exhibit: An administrator needs to create two virtual machines: VM4 and VM5 that leverage the memory over-commit feature. Once VM4 is created and running, the administrator notices that it uses only 28GB of RAM. What will be the maximum RAM that can be allocated to VM5 so that it can be powered on?. 4GB. 8GB. 16GB. 32GB.

In Prism Element, how many nodes can be placed into maintenance mode at one time on 12-node FT2 cluster?. 1. 2. 3. 4.

What is supported for creating a VM Template in Nutanix?. VM is protected by Protection Domain-based DR. VM is an agent or a Prism Central VM. VM has disks located on RF2 containers. VM runs on the ESXi hypervisor.

A security team asks an administrator toset up port mirroringof aspecific source VMto atarget VM. What must the administrator ensure for this configuration to be possible?. Source VM and Target VM are on the same VLAN. Source VM and Target VM are on the same host. Source VM and Target VM are on the same subnet. Source VM and Target VM are on the same VPC.

What is required to create a category in Nutanix?. A name and a value. A policy and an entity. A service and a scope. A catalog and a template.

An administrator needs to set up aprotection policyin preparation for aDisaster Recovery (DR) test. What is the first step required to satisfy this task?. Install NGT (Nutanix Guest Tools) on VMs where applications are supported. Create an Availability Zone between Production and DR. Convert the source cluster to AHV. Create a point-in-time snapshot of source VMs.

Which storage attributes do Storage Policies manage?. Storage Containers and Volume Groups. Replication Factor and Encryption. Shares and Object Stores. Data Protection and Security.

An administrator needs to enableWindows Defender Credential Guardto comply with company policy. The new VM configurations include: Legacy BIOS 4 vCPUs 8 GB RAM Windows Server 2019 What must be changed in order to properly enable Windows Defender Credential Guard?. Update vCPU to 8. Enable UEFI with Secure Boot. Use Windows Server 2022. Update Memory to 16GB.

An administrator wants toenable application discovery on a Nutanix cluster to monitor applications. A Prism Central instance is already configured with sufficient CPU and memory. What other prerequisites must be met before enabling application discovery? (Choose two.). Sufficient Prism Central VM resources. Internet connection. API key and key ID. Network controller is enabled.

Which Nutanix feature provides real-time security hardening and compliance checks?. Nutanix Flow. Prism Security Dashboard. Nutanix Calm. Acropolis Shield.

An administrator manages multiple clusters at different geographic sites via a single Prism Central. What should be configured to optimize image uploads to all locations?. Image Placement Policy with Soft Enforcement. Custom Image Upload Role. Bandwidth Throttling Policy. Image Placement Policy with Hard Enforcement.

An administrator is trying toconfigure Metro Availability between Nutanix ESXi-based clusters. However, the Compatible Remote Site sscreen does not list all required storage containers. Which two reasons could be a cause for this issue? (Choose two.). Source and destination hardware are from different vendors. The remote site storage container has compression enabled. The destination storage container is not empty. Both storage containers must have the same name.

What is the purpose of Replication Factor (RF) in Nutanix storage?. To increase read performance by caching data in memory. To provide data redundancy by storing multiple copies of data. To migrate workloads between clusters automatically. To optimize SSD and HDD performance in hybrid clusters.

An administrator wants toclean up inactive VMsusingVM Efficiency in Nutanix. The business requires that VMs must beinactive for 120 daysbefore deletion. A Playbook was created to deleteDead and Zombie VMs with a 99-day wait period after they are marked inactive How long will have passed before these VMs are deleted? (Choose two.). For Dead VMs, the wait before deletion is 120 days. For Zombie VMs, the wait before deletion is 129 days. For Dead VMs, the wait before deletion is 129 days. For Zombie VMs, the wait before deletion is 120 days.

An administrator wants to ensure that DR snapshots are protected from inadvertent or malicious deletion without notification. What would be the best way to accomplish this?. Create and Apply an Approval Policy. Create and Apply an Alert Policy. Assign DR Admin Role to users. Create a Playbook to alert on event.

What can be used to easily group a set of VMs?. Catalog Items. Labels. Projects. Tags.

An administrator wants to ensure that VM scan be migrated and restarted on another node in the event of a single-host failure. What action should be taken in Prism Element to meet this requirement?. Set Redundancy Factor to 3. Enable HA Reservation. Configure a Protection Domain. Configure an RF1 storage container.

An administrator is protecting an application and its data stored on Volume Groups using Protection Domains. During failover tests, all application VMs restore successfully, but the application data is completely missing. How can the Protection Domain configuration be adjusted to avoid this issue in the future? (Choose two.). Select the "Auto protect related entities" checkbox. Manually add Volume Groups to Protected Entities. Place Volume Groups in a separate Protection Domain. Use application-consistent snapshots.