A systems administrator needs to add more VMs to their Nutanix cluster.Which two actions should the administrator perform to determine if the current cluster can accommodate the new VMs? (Choose two.)

Determine utilization with Cluster Runway.

Utilize Optimize Resources for VM efficiency.

Perform an Inventory with Life Cycle Management.

Determine utilization with Cluster Runway.

Enable Deduplication and Erasure Coding.

Utilize Optimize Resources for VM efficiency.

An administrator receives an alert in Prism indicating that interface eth2, on an AHV host is receiving many CRC errors. After togging into the problematic host, the following command is run to show the indicated output: What is causing this issue?

The interface is incorrectly configured with Jumbo Frames

Incorrect link speeds on the switch

The interface is incorrectly configured with Jumbo Frames

A physical layer network problem

An administrator deletes a large amount of data from a Volume Group presented to a Linux VM. The administrator notices that the deleted data has not been reclaimed as usable storage.What action should be taken to reclaim the storage capacity?

Unmount the Volume Group and then Remount the Volume Group

Shrink the Volume Group that is associated with the Linux VM

Unmount the Volume Group and then Remount the Volume Group

Enable the unman operation on the Linux VM

An administrator needs to deploy an application with a large amount of data connected via Nutanix Volumes.Which two actions should the administrator take when designing the Volume Group? (Choose two.)

Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling)

Distribute workload across multiple virtual disks

Use multiple subnets for iSCSI traffic

Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling)

Enable thick provisioning on the Volume Group(s)

Distribute workload across multiple virtual disks

Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic, regardless of direction, between two groups of VMs identified by their category.Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

An Isolation Environment Policy

An administrator configures authentication in Prism Central (PC) for the NTNX-Admins group. Users report that they are unable to log in. The administrator confirms that the Active Directory (AD) settings in PC are correct.Which condition could result in this behavior?

The users must be added to the Domain Admins AD group.

A role mapping needs to be associated with the AD group.

The users must be added to the Domain Admins AD group.

The Local authentication type must also be selected in PC.

A client chap certificate must also be added in PC.

An organizations Nutanix Cluster is based on VMware vSphere. The cluster is configured to download software updates automatically. The administration needs to verify and eventually upgrade VMware hypervisor via Prism Ul.After logging in to Prism, the administrator receives the message shown:No available versions for upgradeWhat is causing the current state?

The environment is running the latest vSphere version, so no update is required.

VMware support has expired, so downloads are not available.

vSphere binaries need to be manually uploaded.

The environment is running the latest vSphere version, so no update is required.

The cluster is unable to connect to reIease-api.nutanix-ccm:8D.

An administrator receives an error indicating that the CVMs in the cluster are not syncing to any NTP servers. An investigation of the issue finds:* The NTP servers are configured in Prism* The time on all CVMs is the same* Both the CVMs and AHV hosts are configured for the UTC time zoneWhich two steps can be taken to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)

Confirm that the NTP servers are reachable from the CVMs.

On a CVM. run the command a Hash ntpq -pn.

Confirm that the NTP servers are reachable from the CVMs.

On a CVM. run the command a Hash ntpq -pn.

Restart the chronos service on all CVMs.

An administrator is implementing a VDI solution. The workload will be a series of persistent desktops in a dedicated storage container within a four-node cluster. Storage optimizations should be set on the dedicated storage container to give optimal performance including during a node failure event.Which storage optimizations should the administrator set to meet the requirements?

Deduplication and Erasure Coding

Compression, Deduplication, and Erasure Coding

Deduplication and Erasure Coding

Refer to the exhibit. A Nutanix host is connected as shown in the exhibit with br0-up set to active/backup. Physical Switch 1 experiences a power outage causing br0-up to failover to using eth2. The CVM and host become inaccessible. User VMs restart on other hosts in the cluster, which causes a disruption to those VMs.Which configuration issue likely caused this outage?

The upstream port for eth2 is missing a VLAN.

Bridge br0-up should be configured to use balance-tcp rather than active/backup.

The CVM should have eth1 connected to the OVS.

The upstream port for eth2 is missing a VLAN.

An administrator is configuring software only. Data-at-Rest Encryption on their Nutanix cluster. They are planning to deploy a third-party key management server (KMS).Where should this server be hosted?

On hardware external to the Nutanix duster

As a single VM on the Nutanix cluster

On hardware external to the Nutanix duster

As a clustered VM setup on the Nutanix cluster

As a single VM deployed on the host that contains the Prism leader CVM

An administrator is deploying an application that requires maximum I/O throughput for scratch data. The administrator is concerned that the throughput requirement is greater than what can be provided by a single cluster node.What should the administrator do to meet this requirement?

Create a volume group with several virtual disks and attach to the VM

Create a volume group with one virtual disk attached to the VM

Create a virtual disk attached to the VM's PCI interface

Create several virtual disks attached to the VM's virtual SCSI controller

An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix cluster. The application is very transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio.What should the administrator do?

Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM, and aggregate them on guest OS level.

Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all writes go to the SSDs.

Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM, and aggregate them on guest OS level.

Add one large SSD to each node and enable Flash Mode for the VMs.

Add one large virtual disk to each VM. and use it for all application data.

An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance window. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose two.)

Stop all Nutanix Files clusters

Shut down all user VMs in the cluster

Stop all Nutanix Files clusters

Relocate the linked LDAP servers

Shut down all user VMs in the cluster

Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter

An administrator wants to utilize Network Visualization to monitor the physical and logical network on the Nutanix cluster. The first-hop switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still not being displayed.What is causing this problem?

SNMP is not configured properly.

The ISL between switches is not configured.

SNMP is not configured properly.

The cluster is using RDMA-enabled NICs.

An administrator is migrating 5MB shares from a third-party platform to Nutanix Files with the following characteristics:* Shares contain user profile directories* DFS-N will be usedHow should the administrator create target shares for this migration?

Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

Create multiple general purpose shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.

Create multiple distributed shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.

Create standard shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

An administrator manages the following two Nutanix AOS 5.15 cluster environment:* Corp-cluster-01* Corp-cluster-02The VM images must be available only on Corp-cluster-01, but cannot be checked out to cluster Corp-cluster-02. The images also cannot be checked out to any other clusters that are registered with Prism Central in the future.Which two configuration settings must the administrator choose when creating the image placement policy that satisfies the stated requirements? (Choose two.)

Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-01 as the target cluster

Set the policy enforcement to Hard.

Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-01 as the target cluster

Set the policy enforcement to Soft.

Set the policy enforcement to Hard.

Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-02 as the target cluster.

A customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10Gb connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The administrator receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms.Which action should the administrator take to resolve the NCC errors?

Replace the switch fabric extenders with 10G line rate switches

Upgrade NCC and increase the CVM memory by 4Gb

Add 2 additional 10G uplinks from the switch fabric extenders per node

Upgrade NCC and increase the vCPU of the CVM

For several days, an administrator notices the following alerts:* CVM NIC Speed Low Warning Alerts* Warning Alerts of CVM NIC not performing at optimal speed* CVM is disconnected from the network Critical Alert* Network Visualization page shows excessive dropped packets on CVM/HostWhich steps should be taken to determine which problem should be addressed first?

* Verify Host/CVM connectivity on the Network Visualization page * Use to verify the bridge and bond configuration * Review alerts/events page for the CVM disconnected error

* Access the Hardware Page to verify resources are available * Analyze ail CVM Speed Alerts in the Alerts/Events page * Analyze output for the network and interface properties and connectivity issues

* Verify Host/CVM connectivity on the Network Visualization page * Use to verify the bridge and bond configuration * Review alerts/events page for the CVM disconnected error

* Review Alerts page for NIC speed alerts and alert timing * Analyze the genesis.out log file for process failures * Assess the NIC properties in the Network Visualization > Host Properties page

* Restart networking services on the CVM * Determine the current configuration of the affected CVM via output * Access the Alerts/Events page for the CVM network connection failures

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator configures Active Directory authentication as shown in the exhibit. Upon finishing setup, users are not able to log in.What configuration change should be made to fix this issue?

Change the plct from 389 to 636 D Change the Domain to use an IP rather than a name

Change the Directory URL to use an IP rather than a name

Change the plct from 389 to 636 D Change the Domain to use an IP rather than a name

In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target.The current schedule configuration is as follows:* Repeat every 6 hours* Local Retention Policy 1* Remote Retention Policy 8* Starting time 12 amAt 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore the VM locally.

From the Remote site, activate the Protection Domain, then re-protect the entity.

From the Remote site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot

From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore the VM locally.

From the local site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot.

A customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding these VMs, the Prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?

The cluster is not resilient in the storage fabric

The customer has the ability to add more VMs up to the 100% storage utilization.

There is available capacity in the storage fabric and the cluster is resilient.

Node failure is imminent due to storage utilization.

The cluster is not resilient in the storage fabric

A company needs to replicate their VMs to a remote site and must have an RPO of less than 1 hour.When creating a protection domain, what should an administrator do to meet this requirement?

Enable Async Replication with an RPO of 60 minutes

Enable Near-Sync Replication with an RPO of 15 minutes

Enable Entity Sync on the designated VMs

Enable Availability Zones and send the VM to multiple targets

An administrator needs to replace the self-signed certificate on a cluster. Which two requirements must be met as part of the process? (Choose two.)

The signed, intermediate and root certificates are chained.

The imported files for the custom certificate must be PEM encoded.

The cluster administrator must restart the interface gateway.

The signed, intermediate and root certificates are chained.

The existing certificate must be deleted prior to replacement.

The imported files for the custom certificate must be PEM encoded.

An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.The protection domain is configured as follows:* Application consistent snapshots are enabled* The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group* The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pmWhat must be changed to meet the required policy?

Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes

Revise the schedule tc be 15 minutes

Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes

Revise the schedule to be 30 minutes

Revise the schedule to be 45 minutes

An administrator needs to initiate a new VDI project within a couple of months. Prism Central reports there are no storage resources to accommodate such workloads.The administrator sees many powered-off VMs and has the authority to delete test VMs powered off at least for 30 days. Test VMs belong to the Test category.Using Prism Central, which steps are required to identify the correct VMs to be deleted?

Filter VMs list, choose Test category and Inactive under Efficiency

Use Capacity Runway to filter by Test and Powered-off VMs

Filter VMs list, choose Test category and Inactive under Efficiency

Create a new Scenario selecting Test VMs. filter by uptime

Create a new Project selecting Test VMs, sorting by power state

Refer to the exhibit. User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM groupWhat are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)

User 1 can continue to add another 5GB file but will receive a daily notification email.

User 2 can add an 8GB file without receiving a notification email.

User 2 can continue to add another 3GB file but will receive a daily notification email.

User 1 can continue to add another 5GB file but will receive a daily notification email.

User 1 can add an 8GB file to the share without receiving notification.

User 2 can add an 8GB file without receiving a notification email.

A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics:* AHV nodes* SAP HANA version 2* Production database filesWhich configuration should be recommended to the customer?

Do not enable compression, deduplication. or erasure coding on the storage container

Start with a cluster containing three or more nodes

Enable only compression for the container that contains the Production database

Do not enable compression, deduplication. or erasure coding on the storage container

Plate the SAP HANA Database on the same socket as CVM

An administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reasons, these clusters do not have access to the Internet.Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.

Download a dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver.

Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.

Download a dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver.

Download the updated firmware .tgz file from the Nutanix portal.

Select Upgrade Software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.

A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs.What happens after a node failure?

The affected FSVM will be restarted on another node.

The affected FSVM will get live-migrated to another node.

The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its agent VM setting.

The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its VM-to-VM anti-affinity settings.

The affected FSVM will be restarted on another node.

A VDI environment based on AHV Cluster is not performing well. The current environment is using only one bridge (Bridge0). The administrator needs to verify if nodes are using all network cards associated to Bridge0.Which two menus should be used to check the current configuration? (Choose two.)

Network Configuration item in Settings menu

An administrator needs to create and start five new VMs for a Data Analytics Project (OLAP). The VM Profile is as follows:* vCPU:4* vRAM: 64 GB* vDisk: 1.5 TBEach of the four nodes of the Nutanix cluster has the following:* 24 vCPU. 20% overall usage* 192 GB RAM, 60% overall usage* 2xl920GBSSD* 4x 2 TB HDDAt cluster level, there is a single RF2 container that is 30% utilized and has an extent store capacity of 13.5 TB.Which component requires administrator attention?

Physical RAM, because it is not enough to power on all of the new VMs.

Physical Cores, because they are not enough to power on all of the new VMs.

Storage, because the capacity is not enough to create VMs.

Flash Tier because it is not enough to accommodate the workloads.

Refer to the exhibits.An administrator has reported that a new VM is not performing well. After analyzing the information presented in the exhibits, which option shows the best conclusion regarding this workload?

VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.

VM is CPU constrained since the hypervisor cannot provide the required resources.

VM is CPU constrained because more CPU needs to be added to the VM.

VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.

VM is not CPU constrained, because the VM is not running, a multithreaded application.

An administrator is notified that a bare metal database server is down. This database server is being served storage using a Nutanix Volume Group. Upon investigating, the administrator finds that the disks in the database server that map to the vDisks in the volume group have gone offline.What is causing this issue?

A CVM serving the Volume Group has gone offline.

The Volume Group Load Balancer has been disabled.

Port 9443 is blocked in the server firewall.

Port 3260 has been blocked in the server firewall.

A CVM serving the Volume Group has gone offline.

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An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/S of write throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.

Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?

The bandwidth must be increased to support this workload.

The workload must be configured to read at greater than 12.5MB/S.

The replication frequency must be less than 60 minutes.

Zero data loss nearsync must be used to support this workload.

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