NCM - MCI - 5.15 Prep

A customer has Metro Availability configured in Automatic Resume Mode between Site A and Site B.

What happens to VMs if Primary Site A has full network failure?

An administrator must promote protection domains in Site B for VMs to restart

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An administrator logs into Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the Hardware Diagram section.

What should the administrator do?

Check status of applications running on the cluster and call support 47 of 74

A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics:

AHV nodes

SAP HANA version 2

Production database files

Which configuration should be recommended to the customer?

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

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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 used

How should the administrator create target shares for this migration?

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

A customer recently set up Asynce Replication between Site A and Site B. The customer wants to conduct a planned failover and clicks Activate on Site B.

The customer then runs the following on Site A:

ncli pd deactivate_and_destroy_vms name=<protection_domain_name>

What does this do to the customer environment?

VMs get deleted from Site A and the protection domain is no longer active

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An administrator creates a security policy that isolates their financial application from accessing the Internet. When viewing the policy in Prism Central, several connections from the application are outbound to the Internet.

What is causing this issue with the policy?

The policy has been left in monitor mode instead of enforcing mode

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

An administrator is responsible for the following Nutanix Enterprise Cloud environment:

A central datacenter with a 20-node cluster with 1.5PB of storage

Five remote sites each with a 4-node cluster with 200TB storage

The remote sites are connected to the datacenter via 1GB links with an average latency of 6 ms RTT.  What is the minimum RPO the administrator can achieve for this environment?

1 hour

An organization's Nutanix Cluster is based on VMware vSphere. The cluster is configured to download software updates automatically. The administrator needs to verify and eventually upgrade VMware hypervisor via Prism UI.

After logging into Prism, the administrator receives the message shown:

No available version for upgrade

What is causing the current state?

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

An administrator needs to forecast infrastructure requirements for a new program and its associated applications. Prior to the projected start of the new program, all existing applications will be decommissioned.

How should the administrator perform this task?

Check the Disregard Existing Workloads radio button in the Runway scenario

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An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance using AHV Turbo. Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? (Choose two.)

Workloads are multi-threaded

VMs have more than one vCPU

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.)

Download the updated firmware.tg file from the Nutanix portal

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

An administrator needs to replace an aging SAN and move to a hyper-converged infrastructure. The existing environment consists of the following hosts that are connected to the SAN:

5 x AIX hosts

3 x Hyper-V hosts

9 x ESXi hosts

2 x physical SQL Clusters (Windows Server 2012r2 hosts)

After deploying a Nutanix AHV cluster, which two actions should the administrator take to meet the requirements (Choose two.) 

Deploy volumes to support the AIX and SQL workloads

Migrate the ESXi and Hyper-V workloads using Move

An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issues. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.

Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

Set the SCSI timeout value to 60

A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements:

There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B

the administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible

Application consistent snapshots are required

Use of Nutanix VSS

Which Data Protection method should be used?

NearSync

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 sever virtual disks and attach to the VM

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A Microsoft SQL 2016 deployment is shown in the exhibit. The administrator receives reports that database queries take too long to return.

Which optimization should be made to this configuration to improve performance?

TempDB, and Logs disk Separate the Database. TempDB, and Logs onto their own disks

An administrator needs to migrate workloads from a Nutanix cluster running VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV. The migration process needs to be completed in multiple VM groups and support roll back in case any problems are found during user acceptance testing.

Which action should the administrator perform?

Use Cross Hypervisor DR to replicate VMs from ESXi to AHV

An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to  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 level

An administrator needs to expand a cluster based on AHV and running on Nutanix G5 hardware with a new Nutanix G7 system. The cluster is running AOS 5.10 but the operation fails when expanding the cluster. AOS is running on the new system. There are no issues discovering the node.

Why is the operation failing?

AOS version running on G7 is older than the version on the cluster

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An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain. 

What is causing this alert?

Metro Availability Protection domain is active on the remote site.

An administrator needs to make sure an RF3 cluster can survive a failure of two complete racks without negatively affecting performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:

30 All Flash Nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U racks

Each node is configured with 20TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 600TB Usable)

Current cluster utilization is 500TB storage

Which configuration changes should be made to make sure the cluster meets the requirements?

Expand the cluster to 60 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks

A VM does not have enough resources for the demand, which leads to performance bottlenecks. The VM is exhibiting one of more of the following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:

CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)

CPU ready time > 5%, 10%

Memory usage > 90%, 95%

Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value)

Which type of VM is being described?

Constrained VM

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An administrator has a 32-node hybrid cluster with CPU, RAM and storage utilization of 80%. A database VM is configured with VM Flash.

What is causing this IO latency?

Controller VM is experiencing high CPU ready time

An administrator receives an alert in Prism indicating that interface eth2, on an AHV host is receiving many CRC errors. After logging 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

An administrator deploys Exchange on a Nutanix cluster. The administrator creates two containers with RF2 configuration:

One container for Exchange

One container for the other VMs

The Exchange VM is experiencing I/O performance issues.

Which changes to Storage Optimization should be used on the Exchange container to enhance I/O performance?

Inline compression with EC-X

An administrator is using Nutanix Move to migrate a Windows VM from ESXi to AHV. Automated guest preparation is failing with an error:

Account has UAC enabled error. The administrator is using the local built-in administrator account for the Windows VM Admin approval mode must remain enabled.

What should the administrator do to continue with the migration with Nutanix Move?

Use a Domain Admin account for the Windows VM

An administrator needs to maximize storage potential in a six-node cluster. The container is configured with the following:

Post-process compression

Capacity deduplication

What should the administrator configure to increase space savings?

Erasure coding

A VM is exhibiting one or more of the following baseline values based on the past 30 days:

CPU usage <20%

CPU ready time <5%

Memory usages <50% (moderately) or <20% (severely)

Memory swap rate = 0 Kbps

Which type of VM is being described?

Over-Provisioned VM

A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backed up to a remote location. The remote location is concocted using a leased line and has an average latency of 7ms.

Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?

NearSync

An administrator learns that some security settings in a cluster have ben changed. The environment is out of compliance with require policies.

Which function should be used to revert any settings that have been changed from the defaults and prevent further violations?

Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)

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?

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

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

A Nutanix cluster is deployed with the following configuration:

Three four-node blocks (A,B, and C)

All Flash Redundancy Factory 2

What is the effect of simultaneous disk failures on two nodes located in block A?

VMs on the nodes with failed disks are unable to write data

The networking team makes changes to the Top of Rack switches to which the Nutanix cluster are attached. A few VMs are able to communicate with each other on the same node but are unable to connect to other parts of the network.

What is the likely cause of this issue?

There is a VLAN misconfiguration on the switch

Over the period of 2 to 3 weeks, a cluster displays the following:

Periods where Warning Alerts of memory usage over 75% are asserted

Periods where Critical Warnings of memory usage over 90% are asserted

Periods of slow of frozen VDI desktops have caused work stoppage or slowdown

VDI clones have periodically not powered up when called, causing work stoppage

Which steps should be used to prioritize the administrator's troubleshooting efforts?

Review Analysis Page for memory use pattern

Alert with VDI workload demand

Analyze current and future workload in the Capacity Runway tab for sufficient resources

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An administrator logged into Prism Element, notices the following in the home dashboard as shown in the exhibit.

Which action should the administrator take next?

Re-run NCC specifying data_resiliency_check

After the migration, some SQL queries take longer to execute than prior to migration. The following SQL best practices were applied while creating the SQL VM on Nutanix:

8 vDisks per SQL server VM

Database and Log files on separate vDisk

2 TempDB database drives and 1 TempDB log drive

What should the administrator do to improve the SQL performance?

Redistribute existing data by creating additional database file and enable autogrowth

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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 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

An administrator configures Active Directory (AD) authentication for their Nutanix environment. When login using an AD user account, the login process takes more than one minute to complete. No delay occurs when logging into a local account.

What should the administrator confirm to resolve this issue?

Active directory lookups are configured to use Non-Recursive mode

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

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After performing ESXi to AHV conversion on a cluster, the alerts shown in the exhibit display on Prism.

What should the administrator do to resolve this issue efficiently?

Remove VMs from the Protection Domain and add them back in

An administrator is deploying an application using Nutanix Volumes. After configuring the volume group and connecting the guest's iSCSI initiator to the volume group, they begin performance testing.

The administrator learns that performance on the virtual disk attached to the iSCSI initiator is far less than that of a virtual disk connected directly to the VM.

Which situation is causing this condition?

The cluster data services IP address is a bottleneck, shared with other iSCSI traffic

A CEO asks the IT administrator to provide a list of required resources to protect current workloads and the two new SQL servers from a disaster. The Nutanix environment is managed by Prism Central.

Which option explains how to meet the CEO's request?

Create a new Recovery policy be selecting the VM that needs to be protected and get hardware requirements

An administrator is updating disk firmware using LCM and receives the following message:

"there have been 10 or more cluster services restarts within 15 minutes in the Controller VM"

The message appears as each drive is upgraded.

What is the reason this message is being generated?

The node has been rebooted

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 the issue?

A CVM Serving the Volume Group has gone offline

An administrator is concerned that Prism will be inaccessible if Active Directory is unable to process logins. Which method should the administrator use to access the cluster in the event of this type of outage?

Create and use an emergency local account on the cluster

A system administrator needs to shut down an AHV node in a Nutanix cluster without causing service disruption. The administrator checks data resiliency and verifies that the cluster can tolerate a node down.

Which three steps should the administrator perform next? (Choose three.)

Allow vms

sd CVM

sd node

An administrator receives a notification that storage in a Nutanix cluster is unavailable. The cluster consists of five nodes and is configured with a Fault-Tolerance level of 1 (FT-1). Upon investigation, the administrator finds the following:

All AHV hosts are powered on and the CVMs are running

Nodes A, B, And C are connected to one top of rack switch

Nodes D and E are connected to a second top of rack switch

the cluster status commend run on Node A shows that CVM services on nodes D and E are down

Which issue is causing the storage outage?

The genesis process is down on both Nodes D and E

An administrator needs to make sure an RF3 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without negatively effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:

30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack

Each node is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable)

Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage

Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the requirements?

Expanse the cluster by adding 2 additional nodes per rack, 6 nodes total

An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to the CVM in question, checks the ping_* files in the data/logs/syststats folder, and notices intermittent ping loss.

The node in question has the following network configuration:

Which action should be used to troubleshoot without disrupting the VMs running on this node?

Enable balanced-slb on br0-up and monitor if a problem persists

An administrator recently added VLAN 205 CRM in Prism Element. The workloads attached to the associated NICs are unable to establish network connectivity.

Which Layer 2 protocol allows the administrator to troubleshoot this issue from Prism Element?

LLDP

An administrator is trying to correct high cluster IOPs and Cluster Controller Latency. Networking is the suspected issue.

Which networking parameters should be configured in the Nutanix cluster?

Number of NICs connected and frame size

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

A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80% read, 20% write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source.

What should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

Increase SSD capacity

A VDI environment based on AHV Cluster is not performing well. The current environment is using only on 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?

Host view in Network menu

Host NICs tab in Hardware menu

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 optimazations 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

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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

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.

An administrator protected a DB VM running on a Nutanix cluster with NearSync Replication, which schedules to repeat every 15 minutes to a second site. The daily change rate is low. During nightly backups, the replication window is missed due to write volume.

Which two options describe the expected behavior? (Choose two.)

NearSync stops working and fails over to the remote site

The system continuously tries to get to the NearSync schedule

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User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group.

What 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

A systems administrator needs to add more VMs to their Nutanix cluster.

Which two actions should the administrator perform to determine if the cluster can accommodate the new VMs? (Choose two.)

Determine utilization with cluster runway

Utilize Optimize Resources for VM efficiency

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An administrator of a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has microsegmentation enabled and a firewall VM installed. The security team notifies the administrator that one of the VMs hosted in the environment has been exhibiting suspect network activity. The administrator wants to isolate the VM from the production network, but must still be able to access it to perform diagnostics.

What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?

Create a security policy with a service chain directing that VMs traffic to the firewall VM

An administrator is configuring an All Flash cluster to support the following workloads:

Full clone virtual desktops

Hadoop

Write heavy databases

Which three correct configuration options should the administrator use to meet the item requirements? (Choose three.)

For each procedure, indicate whether it is a correct or incorrect procedure that must be configured to meet the item requirements using the drop-down option.

An administrator has two clusters: Site A and Site B.

Async DR is configured between the clusters as follows:

Site A is the Primary Site

Site B is the Secondary inactive Site, no VMs running

Site A is fully in Production

Site B used as Backup/Disaster Recovery

The customer wants to perform a planned failover between the sites.

How should the administrator accomplish this?

Choose Migrate on the Primary site within the Data Protection Dashboard

An administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins. The administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 will reduce the login times. Production workloads are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU count on all of the VDI VMs.

What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two.)

Increase CPU utilization %

Increase CPU ready %

An administrator has a custom backup application that requires a 2TB disk and runs in Windows. Throughput is considerably lower than expected.

The application was installed on a VM with the following configuration:

Four vCPUs with one care/vCPU

4GB of Meory

One 50GB vDisk for the Windows installation 

One 2TB vDisk for the application

What is the recommended configuration change to improve throughput?

Increase the vCPUs assigned to the VM

An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs. This deployment will have the following considerations:

Individual VMs will likely generate network throughput in the range of 90-100Mbps

Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of them at a time

Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time

Multicast will not be used in the environment

The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connections

How should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while maintaining the simplest switch configuration?

Configure bond0 as active-backup

An administrator receives reports that VDI desktop performance in an 8-node Nutanix VDI environment is poor. Opening applications takes between 1 and 2 minutes.

When investigating the issue, the following conditions are found:

Cluster memory utilization: 80%

Cluster SSD utilization: 70%

Average VM CPU Wait Time: 11%

CVM CPU utilization: 75%

Which action should be taken to improve VDI performance?

Add memory to the nodes in the cluster

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 20MJB/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

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A customer has a primary datacenter with 12 Nutanix blocks distributed across three racks. The customer wants to achieve the most resiliency possible. They also have a datacenter in a branch office that is 400 kilometers away from the primary datacenter.

Which two solutions should be used? (Choose two.)

Async DR to a remote site

Rack awareness

A customer has NearSync configured. When the administrator tries to restore a snapshot from 3 minutes ago, it is not available. The snapshots are happening at 15-minute intervals instead of at the 5-minute configured interval. When the protection domain was initially set up, the snapshots were happening at the expected 5-minute interval.

What should the customer do to enable the snapshots to happen at the expected interval?

Fix a connectivity issues because the protection domain reverted to Async

An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs into a CVM to check the network configuration. The configuration is as follows:  

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Which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?

Remove on 10 Gbps interface from br0-up to make sure all 10 Gbps can be used

An organization is running a Nutanix Cluster based on AOS 5.10.x and VMware vSphere 6.7. Currently, the CVM network is segmented and Storage only nodes not present.

A new security project based on NSX is coming. VMware Distributed Virtual Switches are required. The administrator needs to prepare the environment for the new project.

Which step should the administrator use to initiate the project?

Enable Jumbo Frames to accommodate network frames

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 cluster

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 zone

Which 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 hash ntpq -pm

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?

A role mapping needs to be associated with the AD group

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

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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

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 the CVM/Host

Which 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

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

Each of the four nodes of the Nutanix cluster has the following:

24 vCPU. 20% overall usage

192 GB RAM 60% usage

2X1920 GB SSD

4X2 TB HDD

At 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 there is not enough to power on all of the new VMs

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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 port from 389 to 636

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An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts.

What must be changed to enable full inter-VM communications?

Update the switch to specifically allow VLAN 15

A customer has a four-node cluster and is using Volume Groups to provide storage services to a SQL cluster. 

In the event of a CVM failure in the cluster, what is the expected I/O path of the volume group's iSCSI targets?

vDisk directed to failed CVM are redirected to another CVM and automatically reconnected.

An administrator manages the following two Nutanix AOS 5.15 cluster environment:

Corp-cluster-01

Corp-cluster-02

The 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 crating 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

An administrator is deploying a new application to a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. The application requires security to prevent unauthorized access. The application also uses many non-standard ports that are unique to it. Security should not be changed for existing applications.

What should the administrator do to meet these requirements?

Create new categories for the VMs, and create new security policies that include the new categories.

An administrator is currently using both 10g uplink with LACP and balance-tcp. A single VM should not be allowed to use more than a single 10G uplink, and both uplinks should be utilized.

Which two commands should be used to configure the bond? (Choose two.)

ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb

ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config:bond-rebalance-interval=30000

An administrator is deploying a three-tier application on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud consisting of web, application, and database VMs. Traffic between the servers must be limited to specific services/ports. There is an application layer firewall VM deployed on one host in the cluster.

In which way should the administrator meet this requirement?

Categorize the VMs in Prism Central and utilize Flow to set a security policy

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What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?

RDMA Network Segmentation

An administrator has an existing Nutanix seven-node cluster running at RF2 that must be changed to have the following capabilites:

RF3 set for the cluster

Performance tier deduplication

What is the minimum memory needed on the CVMs to allow for these capabilities?

28GB

A new Nutanix cluster is ready for production on a remote site with no IT staff. Changes to the infrastructure will cost money and probably causes a cluster stop. The administrator needs to perform a health check on the environment that should include:

Network connectivity checks

Network performance status

Storage performance status

Which tool should be used to perform this test.

NCC

An administrator receives the warning message shown in the exhibit while validating cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV.

What should the administrator do to address this warning in vCenter server?

Keep homogeneous adapter as active and standby

An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment.

Why is this happening?

The system is deployed as a single FSVM

A customer recently set up Asynce Replication between Site A and Site B. The customer wants to conduct a planned failover and clicks Active on Site B.  The customer then runs the following command on Site A:

ncli pd deactivate_and_destroy_vms name=<protection_domain_name>

What does this do to the customer environment?

VMs get deleted from Site A and the protection domain is no longer active

A customer has the following requirement for a Nutanix cluster:

Must support high-performance Nutanix Volumes iSCSI workloads

Must utilize AHV nodes

Must use 10 GbE interface

How should the customer optimize networking?

Enable Jumbo From on just the Host

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 the problem?

SNMP is not configured properly

An organization is planning an upgrade to AOS 5.15 and wants to understand which cluster products and/or services are supported for physical traffic isolation.

Which Nutanix component supports its network traffic being isolated onto its own virtual network?

Volumes

An administrator is performing a set of routing checks and notes that Prism Central is running with 4 vCPUs and 21 GB RAM. The organization's environment is base on two Nutanix clusters with 170 VMs plus a Legacy vSphere infrastructure. No manual changes have been done on Prism Central VM.

Which configuration justifies the current Prism Central configuration?

Nutanix Leap an Nutanix Flow have been enable on Prism Central

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

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 am

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

An administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the following:

VMs are experiencing high latency

Each node is equipped with a single SSD, utilized at 95%

Each node is equipped with three HDDs, utilized at 40%

Why are the guest VMs experiencing high latency?

All VM write operations are going to HDD

An administrator is deploying Nutanix Files 3.5 and needs to configure the sizing of the FSVMs for an increased number of concurrent SMB connections over the default 750.

What should the administrator do?

During installation, click Customize on the File Server Installation screen,  change the number of connections, and finish the installation

An administrator has a VM that consumes large amounts of storage and has the following characteristics:

Create large / sequential writes

Data must be kept for years

Data is normally only accessed at the end of the year to run report

The administrator decides to use Erasure Coding to save space.

Which feature should the administrator utilize to save space for this VM?

Inline Compression

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

Reference:

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 pm

What must be changed to meet the required policy?

Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes

An administrator migrates a VM onto a new Nutanix cluster. After the migration, the administrator observers the following conditions: 

Cluster memory utilization: 64%

Cluster CPU utilization: 19%

Cluster storage utilization: 32%

Average VM CPU utilization: 25%

Average VM CPU ready%: 24%

Average VM memory utilization: 60%

Which two changes should the administrator make to improve VM performance? (Choose two.)

Reduce the number of vCPUs assigned to VMs

Reduce the number of VMs on the hosts

While crating an image placement policy on the organizations AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the administrator wants to ensure there are no restrictions on using the selected images on clusters outside of the identified set.

What type of Policy Enforcement must the administrator choose?

Soft

An administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15-based AOS cluster performance logs and notices that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has confirmed that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VMs this server is a member of.

What are two reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS Policy?

The VM was not created as an AFS virtual machine

The SQL Server VM has volume groups attached