Which subnet is reserved for internal connectivity within a Nutanix Cluster?
A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs.
What happens after a node failure?
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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?
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?
During Foundation, all nodes are imaged successfully. The cluster creation step fails. The consultant troubleshoots the issue and verifies that all Hosts and CVMs are up and running and responding to network pings.
Which method should the consultant select to create the cluster?
A consultant is reimaging a Nutanix cluster with a supported ISO, but Foundation returns an error that the media is not a supported ISO.
Which two actions should the consultant take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)
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A system administrator is using Range-Autofill tool to assign IP addresses to setup a multi-block cluster based on the following configuration:
Which additional changes must be made during the Foundation process to configure the cluster correctly?
A consultant configures a Nutanix cluster and integrates the hosts into vCenter using VMware best practices. The customer has requested that the Nutanix cluster only have a single datastore.
Upon configuring the cluster per the customer requirements, vCenter displays an alert regarding the heartbeat datastore. The consultant adds the das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore value = true rule. The container can be seen from each host, but the alert remains active.
What should the consultant do to resolve this issue?
After finishing foundation on an AHV cluster, a consultant is preparing to plug into the customer network given the following set of requirements:
* All network traffic on trunks is tagged
* Customer is using LACP
* A native VLAN is not in use
Which set of commands should the consultant use to ensure cluster connectivity on customer equipment?
During an AHV upgrade, a database VM automatically migrated to another host. A customer is concerned about potential storage performance impact.
Which statement addresses the customer's concern?
During a six-node cluster deployment, one node fails to image successfully and Foundation is unable to automatically configure the cluster. The consultant decides to manually complete cluster formation with the successful nodes, then expand the cluster with the remaining unconfigured node.
Which command should be used to begin the process?
A consultant successfully completes a Foundation using a flat switch. The consultant then works with the customer to move the cluster over to their production network. After the move, the CVMs and hypervisors can no longer communicate, which prevents the cluster from starting.
Which option should be used to resolve this issue?
A consultant is planning an installation and needs to collect configuration items to be used during the install. The data needed from the customer are IP addresses, Gateway, DNS servers, and NTP Servers.
Which Cluster Deployment document must be completed with the customer?
A consultant is onsite and needs to start their Foundation Virtual Machine (FVM) to image Nutanix hardware. The FVM fails to boot. The consultant decides to use a different Foundation method.
Assuming the nodes will discover, which Foundation type or configuration option should the consultant select?
A customer has HE servers with DiscoverOS and wants to install a Nutanix cluster.
Which method should a consultant use to meet the requirements?
A consultant is running Foundation. The cluster creation fails during the process. The host logs confirm that the nodes have been successfully imaged. The consultant decides to create the cluster manually.
Which command should the consultant use?
Based on customer requirements, a consultant conducted an AHV cluster deployment. Each node is configured with four NICs.
Which two components should the consultant manually update in the As-Built Guide? (Choose two.)
An administrator is performing a set of routine checks and notes that Prism Central is running with 4 vCPUs and 21 GB RAM. The organizations environment is based 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?
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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?
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A customer has completed and given the pre-delivery questionnaire to the consultant. The customer has indicated that they are using HPE/OEM hardware.
Which action should the consultant take to prepare the laptop and Foundation networking for the installation?
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The customer has an existing NX-3160 block and is adding a second node into it.
Where should the node be installed?"
A consultant is working with a customer on a new cluster deployment.
While reviewing the customer questionnaire, the consultant notices that the customer has documented their DNS servers as follows:
•CompanyDNSI 192.168.5.10
•CompanyDNS2 192.1685.20
What should the consultant consider regarding this deployment?
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?
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?
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.)
A consultant is setting up a new install of Nutanix Files for a customer, but receives this error when attempting to join the customer's Active Directory domain:
File Server
The consultant has already verified the domain credentials provided by the customer are valid and have the correct permissions.
What is the most likely cause in this scenario for a domain-join failure when setting up Nutanix Files?
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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?
A consultant completes a new cluster installation and tries to update the firmware using LCM. The update fails with the following.
operation failed, Reason: Failed to run LCM operation, error: ReadError('not a grip file',).
Which log should the consultant view to get more info?
After deployment of a Nutanix cluster, a customer has requested to validate the peak performance of the cluster.
Which tool can a consultant use to satisfy this request?
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?
A customer has the following requirement for a Nutanix cluster:
How should the customer optimize networking?
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An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?
A consultant is viewing an ESXi host via console without external network connectivity.
Which two IP addresses can be used to connect to the CVM (Choose two.)
Where in the Support Portal can it be determined if a version of AOS is supported on a particular hardware platform.
A consultant is installing Nutanix AOS on Cisco UCS.
Which method should be used to install AOS on UCS hardware platforms?
The following critical Availability Alert displays in prism Central:
The protection Policy PP-BCA-1HR includes a business critical application with a 1-hour snapshot frequency.
What is causing this issue?
During the knowledge transfer on Prism GUI, a customer asked about AHV best practices for VM High Availability on a five-node cluster and the safest configuration. The consultant informed the customer that best practices dictate that all storage containers are configured with a replication factor of 3.
What will be the behavior if the non-default Guarantee mode is selected on Prism with two AHV host failures?
A consultant is deploying a Nutanix cluster at a customer location. The consultant will be deploying the latest AOS along with the latest Nutanix hardware.
Which three references should the consultant review prior to this installation? (Choose three.)
A consultant installs a new AHV cluster and moves the cluster into the customer's environment. Alter the move, the consultants notice that traffic is not being balanced across the physical NICs. The ToR switches have been configured with LACP.
Within Prism Element, which AHV network option should be set to resolve the issue?
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A consultant is trying to test port failover on the node shown in the first exhibit. A continuous ping test is performed to the host. The consultant shuts down one of the links, after which the host ping request times out. The consultant tries to troubleshoot the issue with the customer and sees the information shown in the second exhibit on their Cisco Switches:
What is causing the issue?
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?
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An administrator receive the warning massages shown in the exhibit while validating cluster conversion from EXSi to AHV.
What should the administrator do to address this warning in v Center Server?
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?
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?
At which prompt should a consultant execute the command nanage_ovs —bridge_nawe brO show_uplinks in a Nutanix cluster?
A systems administrator configures a protection domain replication between two Nutanix clusters. After the first successful replication , the administrator tests DR by clicking activate on the remote cluster.
While VMs are active on the remote cluster, the protection domain is marked as active on both clusters.
What steps are required to return both clusters to their original state?
A consultant asks a customer to verify the ToR Switch data port configuration was done according to Nutanix best practices. The switch configuration must simplify future deployments and expansions.
Which two configuration actions will satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)
A consultant needs to review a customer’s switch port configuration to identify any issues. Other customer requirements are as follows:
* Leverage LACP
* Native VLAN will not be used
* Use Multiple Upstream switches
* Use VLANs 20-25 and 30
* LACP Fallback has been Enabled
* vPC or MLAG has been configured
What must be included in a configuration in order to meet these requirements?
A consultant creates a Windows VM after installing a new Nutanix cluster running AHV. The consultant has statically assigned an IP address to the VM but it is unable to communicate on the network.
Which action should the consultant take to resolve this issue?
A consultant is working on an expansion project for a customer that has an existing 7-node RF2 cluster. The customer has purchased four more nodes to add to the cluster. All of the hardware is identical between the existing hardware and newly purchased hardware.
Currently, the 7-node cluster has the following utilization:
•CPU: 48%
•Memory: 66%
•Storage: 91%
During the kick-off call, the customer mentioned they'd like to reserve storage capacity on the cluster if a node were to fail in the future.
What's the safest and best way to implement this on the cluster?
A consultant is unable to install virtualization software on a laptop.
Which two versions of Foundation can be used to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)
What must be set to enable node discovery when using Foundation VM?
How should a consultant validate the installed version of an NVIDIA driver in a Nutanix VDI deployment?
A consultant is planning to use a flat switch for installation.
What is the network requirement for Foundation VM, CVM, Hypervisor, and IPMI
As a part of a cluster deployment test plan, a customer asks the consultant for some additional performance and resiliency tests.
How should the consultant best satisfy this request?
A consultant has been tasked with increasing security on a Nutanix cluster by disabling password authentication when accessing the CVM and AHV hosts and instead moving to key-based SSH.
What is the easiest way for the consultant to meet these requirements?
A customer has engaged a Nutanix consultant to deploy a cluster consisting of two NX-3460-G6 blocks. The consultant arrives at the customer site and fines the following:
* One rack with a total of 5U available
* Two ToR switches with 14 total available ports
* Dual PDUs with six available sockets
What will prevent the consultant from successfully installing the cluster?
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:
• 5xAIX hosts
• 3x Hyper-V hosts
• 9xESXi hosts
• 2x 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.)
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?
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
• Storage containers have Erasure Coding enabled
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure the cluster meets the requirements?
A consultant discovers that while the Foundation VM and the consultant's laptop are able to ping each other nodes are rea discovered while trying to run Foundation on the customer's network.
What should the consultant do to resolve the issue?
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 creating the image placement policy that satisfies the stated requirements? (Choose two.)
Which two files should be downloaded to deploy Foundation VM on VMware ESXI or AHV Hypervisors? (Choose two.)
A customer already has a Prism Central (PC) instance deployed in their environment and expects the consultant to unregister the old cluster before registering the new cluster
What steps should the consultant take to safely and successfully unregister the customer's former cluster from PC?
In which part of the Knowledge Transfer can the customer learn how to create, escalate, comment, and close cases?
How should a consultant verify that a Nutanix cluster can tolerate a single-node failure?
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?
A customer racks all nodes in the new cluster. The customer does not allow IPv6 for node discovery.
The consultant is not allowed to use the consultant’s own flat switch in the customer’s environment.
Which step should the consultant take to resolve this issue?
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An administrator logged into Prism Element, notices the following in the home dashboard, and showing the exhibit.
Which action should the administrator take next?
A consultant deploys a new ESXi-based Nutanix cluster and migrates a sphere deployment to the cluster, After completing the deployment, the customer states they are experiencing VM performance issues.
Upon observing logs and performance data, the consultant identified the following symptoms.
◦ Excessive read/write 1/Os on CVMs
◦ Excessive Motion of VMs
What is causing this issue?
A consultant is unable to ping the CVM from the hypervisor using the external interface. The customer's network is configured with the 10.3.12.0/24 subnet without VLAN tagging. The CVM and hypervisor are using the same address space.
What is causing this issue?
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?
A customer buys ultimate licensing and wants to use the built-in Nutanix software encryption on their new AHV cluster. The customer needs to create three storage containers and asks the consultant to complete the process as fast as possible.
In which order should the cluster be deployed?
A customer’s security team has a policy prohibiting a consultant’s laptop from connecting within the corporate datacenter.
In which two ways should the consultant complete the customer deployment on the factory-prepared nodes? (Choose two.)
An administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the following;
• VMs are experiencing very 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?
After deploying an AHV cluster connected to Cisco Nexus 9k switches, unexpected network behavior is observed. The consultant needs to rule out physical network mis-cabling without returning to the datacenter.
Which command from the host should the consultant run?
An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is this happening?
A consultant is running Foundation discovery with Foundation VM and is unable to dynamically discover the nodes. The consumer needs another method to image the nodes.
What information does the consultant need to do bare metal Foundation?
An organization subscribes to field advisories from the Nutanix support portal. An administrator receives an email about a rare problem that could cause cluster instability and affect the entire AOS cluster. The organization is running Vmware vsphere 6.x on Nutanix.
What action should be taken to resolve this issue?
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.)
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.)
An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 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 nodes 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?
An administrator is deploying a new application to a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. The application requires a 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 requirement?
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?
A customer has a G6 AHV cluster with 4x10GbE NICs on each node and the following configuration:
* Networking is set to default
* Only two NICs are connected
The customer receives the following critical message:
The NIC is disconnected from the switch, or the switchport is failing.
What should the consultant verify to resolve the issue?
A consultant is setting up a new Hyper-V cluster. The customer requirements are as follows:
* VMs should automatically failover to another host if the host crashes
* Host CPU and Memory resources should be evenly balanced
* New VMs should be placed on the host with the most resources available
Which two Hyper-V features can be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
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.)
Which subnet should a consultant be aware is reserved for internal connectivity within a Nutanix cluster?
A customer wants to validate the Microsoft SQL workload performance for a CRM application before migration to the new Nutanix cluster.
Which activity must the consultant add as part of the test plan to fulfill this requirement?
When utilizing the Nutanix cluster As Built Document generator, which two configuration elements should a consultant provide when running the run_as_built.exe command? (Choose two.)
