79 questions
An HA event occurs, which causes a SQL virtual machine to restart on different node.
What impact will this action on Data Locality?
Active VM data will be localized
Data on adjacent node will be localized
VM data will remain as originally written and reads will occur across the network
All VM data be simultaneously migrated as part on the VM migration
A customer is running AHV in their Nutanix cluster and wants to provide their users with the ability to restore individual files from snapshots.
What is the minimum level of licensing that must be applied to the Nutanix cluster ?
Pro
Starter
Pro with the Advanced Replication SKU
Ultimate
A customer needs to increase availability in their Nutanix environment by enabling rack awareness. The current configuration consists of : 1 RF2 cluster consisting of 7 identical NX-3170 1U nodes , All Storage efficiencies are disabled.
Which two changes should the systems engineer propose to meet the customer requirements ? (Choose two)
Add 1 additional NX-3170 1U node
Distribute nodes across 2 separate racks
Add 2 additional NX-3170 1U nodes
Distribute nodes acros 3 separate racks
An 8-node hybrid cluster is configured with a Fault Tolerance level of 2 (RF3). All nodes are identical.
Which simultaneous failures will result in VM data being unavailable?
Single SSD failure on one node and single SSD failure on another node
Two HDD failures on one node and a single SSD failure on another node
CVM being powered off on one node and two HDD failure on another node
SSD failures on two nodes and a CVM powered off on another
Compared to a 3-tier architecture, which two benefits does Nutanix bring to an organization? (Choose two)
Elimination of siloed storage with file, block, and object storage in a single platform
Tedious sizing of compute and storage requirements
Ability to avoid generational infrastructure silos using modern life cycle management
IT complexity outdated infrastructure proesses and skil sets in silos
A Customer plans to migrate a business critical, high transaction application to Nutanix. Currently the application is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12 CPU cores at > 80% utilizations.
To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the System Engineer recommend for this workload?
(2) CPUs (8-Cores each @ 2.1GHz), 16 Cores total
(2) CPUs (8-Cores each @ 1.8GHz), 16 Cores total
(2) CPUs (10-Cores each @ 3.4GHz), 20 Cores total
(2) CPUs (16-Cores each @ 2.8GHz), 32 Cores total
A customer’s current AHV cluster for mixed server woldoads consist of 7 NX-3060 G6 nodes with Intel Skylake processors spread across two blocks. Growing demand for resources requires the customer to order three additional NX-3060 G7 nodes with Intel Cascade Lake processors.
Which supported approach allows the customer the most efficient use of their additional resources?
Create new cluster using a new block populated by the three additional nodes
Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks and adding a new block populated with two nodes
Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks with the three additional nodes.
Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks by adding a new block populated with three additional nodes.
A prospective customer wants to migrate database workloads to Nutanix. They are currently running these workloads on a 3-tier vSphere architecture made up of 5 host connected to a hybrid SAN over 10G iSCSI. The hosts each have 256GB RAM and 2 Broadwell 2.8Ghz 12 core processors. The largest database VM is configured with 64GB of memory. Some databases are fairly old and single threaded. Current performance is deemed acceptable.
Which configuration component is most important to maintain the customer experience on Nutanix cluster and minimize costs?
Make sure the cluster is all flash to speed up data accsess
Make sure the cluster uses 512G per host to protect NUMA boundaries.
Make sure the cluseter uses 25G nics to speed up the network
Make sure the cluster uses similar speed processor regardless of generation
A customer previously purchased a Nutanix solution of nine NX-3060-G7 nodes. The customer asks for help to increase the resiliency of their environment after power outages to individual racks in their datacenter Their current solution consists of two NX-3460-G7 blocks and a single NX-3160-G7 block placed in a single rack.
What should the systems engineer recommend to this customer ?
Buy three additional NX-3060 Upgrade nodes and place them into the NX-3160 block Enable Rack Awareness
Move one node from each NX-3460 block over to the NX-3160 blocks. Enable Block Awareness
Move one node from each NX-3460 into the NX-3160 block. Spread the blocks over three racks and enable Rack Awareness
Buy one additional node and place it, into the NX-3160 block. Spread the blocks over three racks. Enable Rack Awareness.
An IT Manager is struggling to keep up with the ever-increasing demands from the business to provide services more quickly. The main problem relates to the existing architecture and a mix of vendors who are slow to release updates to their products.
Which core facet of Webscale architecture should the Nutanix systems engineer discuss?
Enterprise class features
One-Click upgrades
Continous innovation
Rich analytics
A prospective customer asks about failure handing. They have heard all HCI is the same and want to know what happens if 2 nodes fail within 1 hour of each other.
If there is capacity in the cluster, how will this failure scenario be handled ?
Nutanix waits 60 minutes to recover from failures; data loss may occur
Every block of data is written to every node in a Nutanix cluster
Nutanix begins rebuilds immediately on a failure.
The Nutanix RAID array will leverage the hot spare.
A custormer's database administrator is concerned about restoring data locality for their VMs after they migrate during an AHV upgrade. Which feature that addresses the issue should the systems engineer highlight?
All VM data is moved from the source to the destination node with the VM.
AHV's built-in scheduler automatically restores data locality
Mirroring the database on two VMs eliminates the need for data locality
Shadow clones mitigate the need for data locality.
Based on their current workload. a customer request the systems engineer to create a solution that does not exceed 80% CPU utilization when a node is placed in maintenance mode (N+0).
When creating the Sizer Scenario in Automatic Mode, how can the systems engineer accomplish this?
Customize the CPU threshold in the scenario's sizing options.
Use Customize to increase the CPU Core count until the CPU utilization is 80%
Select a higher-end processor when defining the workload.
Modify the solution by adding compute only nodes to the cluster
A prospective customer is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration. Which type of document should the systems engineer (SE) Provide?
Best Practice Guide
Reference Architecture
Filed Advisory
Knowledge Base Article
Using the Sizing Options shown, which two configurations are possible configuration that Sizer could provide in Automatic Mode? (Choose Two)
6x NX-3060-G7 (6x 1920GB SSDs per node)
3x NX-3060-G7 (2x 1920GB SSDs per node) + 3x NX-1075S-G7 (4x 3.84TB SSD per node)
4x NX-1075S-G7 (4x 3.84TB SSDs per node) + 4x NX-8035-G7 (6x 3.84TB SSD per node)
6x NX-8055-G7 (2 x 7.68TB SSD + 10x 6TB HDD per node)
When reviewing Nutanix cluster upgrades, a customer engineer is concerned that their VM will be forced to repeatedly migrate between nodes.
Which Nutanix feature allows VMs to remain on a host during an AOS upgrade?
Data Locality
Shadow Clones
CVM Autopathing
RF3
A customer needs to image nodes that are either bare metal or require a different hypervisor.
Which Nutanix tool should be used?
Era
Foundation
Move
Prism Central
A prospective customer uses both Oracle and Microsoft products for critical applications. The prospect prefers an all flash arry over HCI, because they have made a recent, significant investment in physical servers for their Oracle enviroment to save on licensing costs.
Which feature should be discussed to address this objection?
VM Flash Mode
AHV
Hyper-V support
Volumes
A prospective customer's migration to their new SAN started six months ago and is still not complete. The VP of IT states the previous migration to the existing SAN took almost eight months to complete.
How should the systems engineer describe Nutanix hardware refreshes to this propective customer?
With AHV, vMotion between clusters occurs faster than on a SAN-based cluster.
New nodes can be added to an existing cluster, and then the old nodes can be removed
Manual hardware refreshes take time, and the systems engineer understand the customer's current situation
Setting an AHV node's EVC mode is a very fast process that will shorten the upgrade time
A customer performs a 1-click, non-disruptive upgrade on a 3-node Nutanix cluster. While the CVM on Node A is rebooting, a VM on Node A overwrites an existing block of data.
How does Nutanix AOS ensure data integrity during the upgrade?
AOS leverages Erasure Coding to maintain resiliency.
AOS only overwrites the available copy and waits until the original copy is back online before restoring resiliency.
AOS marks the replica as read only and waits until the original replica is back online to prevent corruption
AOS writes two copies across the remaining nodes to maintain resiliency.
What is an important consideration when using RVTools output for sizing a solution?
It only captures provisioned storage.
Only powered on VMs are included in the data.
It is a point in time snapshot of the environment.
No Information on the physical host is collected.
A systems engineer is building a private cloud for internal developers that should include self-service and life cycle management for both kubernetes containers and SQL databases.
Which additional license feature must be purchased to provide this capability?
Nutanix Era
Nutanix Flow
Prism Pro
Nutanix Beam
A prospective customer wants to refresh their current on-premises infrastructure that. consists of 4 ESXi hosts. each with 20 cores and 512GB of RAM, and 1.2PB of usable SAN storage They have recently renewed their ESXi licensing, and all data must remain within their physical network. They are concerned that a hyperconverged solution will not meet their storage requirements without requiring a significant increase in the number of required ESXi hosts and licenses.
Which Nutanix capability should the systems engineer review with the customer?
Replace the hypervisor with AHV
Build Cluster on a public cloud
Position storage-only nodes
Use Volumes to provide storage
A customer asks for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application. The customer has a vSAN ReadyNode quote already and is looking for a comparable Nutanix solution. They share the following bill of materials: 3 Hosts , 2x E5-2640v4 CPUs , 512GB RAM , 1 x 480GB SSD , 2 x 8TB HDD , 2 x 1GB NIC
What are two reasons to avoid sizing to match a competitor's bill of materials ? (Choose two)
Sizing data from the competition was shared.
There is no visibility to the actual customer requirement
The assumptions made in the competitor's sizing cannot be determined.
Nutanix Collector is better at capturing the metrics needed
A customer intends to build out their VDI environment over a period of 18 months. They require a consistent user experience as their numbers grow.
What element of the Nutanix WebScale architecture would a systems engineer discuss with them?
All intelligence in software
No single point of failure
Nutanix can run on multiple hardware vendor platforms
Linear performance with predictable scaling
A prospective customer has a requirement for Data-at-Rest-Encryption for all their data.
Which two license options are available to address this requirement? (Choose two)
Pro with the Encryption SKU
Ultimate
Pro
Starter with the Encryption SKU
A System engineer (SE) is gathering requirements to size a hybrid cluster to replace a prospect's existing IT test and development environment. The prospective customer has indicated the cluster contains no business critical applications and has provided the aggregate vCPU and RAM requirements of the existing cluster.
Which two additional items does the SE require to size the cluster?(Choose two)
Existing Drive Count
Virtual Switch Configuration
Working Data Set
Storage Capacity
During an initial discussion. a prospective customer indicates they are strongly considering vSAN for their HCI initiative. The prospect's workloads are mostly read-intensive and they have over 1PB of archival data. The prospect expects to save on costs using storage efficiencies that their existing platform does not support.
Which two Nutanix differentiators should the systems engineer discuss? (Choose two.)
Compression on Hybrid Nodes
Volume Group Load Balancing
Data Locality
CVM Autopathing
When discussing node failures. a customer raises the concern that if a node that host 100TB of data goes offline. building data must take an extended period of time.
Which feature of the Nutanix solution should the systems engineer point out to address the issue?
Use of redundant hypervisor boot-drives
Support for all-flash or NVMe platforms
Leveraging a replication-factor of 3
Distribution of rebuild tasks across all nodes
Which two items are considered by Sizer, when calculating the required cluster resources with only the Raw input workload type for a multi-VM workload? (Choose two)
The vCPU:pCore ratio applied for specific VMs
Large VM NUMA requirements
The required RAM for the CVM<br />
The vCPU:pCore ratio applied to all VMs
One of a prospective customer's security analysts asks about Nutanix's security functionality. The security analyst asks if Nutanix has any feature or capability that reduces the effort required to assess the security with in the Nutanix infrastructure.
Which benefit does Nutanix SCMA provide to this prospect?
Automatically updates/patches cluster components to the latest code levels
Enables One-Click remediation of non-compliant security settings
Notifies the customer of newly discovered/announced vulnerabilities
Automates security compliance checking and remediation
A prospective customer is evaluating solutions to support a project. The systems engineer proposes a hybrid model as recommended by Sizer. The prospect is concerned about the performance of a hybrid configuration and is evaluating an all flash array.
Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concerns of the prospective customer? (Choose two)
AHV Turbo Mode
Data Locality
Automatic Data Tiering
Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler
A systems engineer sizers an environment based on the customer's requirement of N+2 resiliency for the entire cluster.
In which two ways could the configuration be changed to meet the customer's requirements ? (Choose Two)
Increase the RAM capacity per Node
Increase the number of Nodes
Increase the CPU capacity per Node
Increase the SSD capacity per Node
A systems engineer is creating a workload for a Sizer Scenario that requires Disaster Recovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 6 hours. The "Protect VMs and other Entities" setting is set to Yes. Async is selected for the RPO.
Which two other options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster? (Choose two)
Disaster Recovery
Backup
Remote Snapshot
NearSync
A prospective customer provides the data shown captured from their existing environment using RVTools. The prospect has additional historical CPU utilization data that indicates peak CPU utilization never exceeds 50% on either physical host, but they want to keep their current vCPU:pCore ratio.
Based on the data provided, which vCPU:pCore ratio should be used for the Raw input workload in Sizer?
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
Based on their current workload. a customer request the systems engineer to create a solution that does not exceed 80% CPU utilization when a node is placed in maintenance mode (N+0).
When creating the Sizer Scenario in Automatic Mode, how can the systems engineer accomplish this?
Customize the CPU threshold in the scenario's sizing options.
Use Customize to increase the CPU Core count until the CPU utilization is 80%
Select a higher-end processor when defining the workload.
Modify the solution by adding compute only nodes to the cluster
A systems engineer needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup using Veeam. The prospect requires an RPO of 24 hours, and the ability to restore from the past 7 days of backups. The prospect's data change rate is 1%.
How should the SE configure the SE configure Sizer for this scenario?
N/A
N/A
N/A
What information can be gathered about the configuration of the VM storage?
Majority of VMs are Thin Provisioned.
Storage capacity is a problem
VMs have many disks.
Total disk usage is high
A systems engineer is creating a configuration in Sizer for a customer that is building an app for use as an ebooks repository.
The app requires the following two workloads :
1. 50 generic web server VMs, each with 2 vCPUs on a 4:1 vCPU ratio, 8 GB of RAM, and 100GB of storage each 2.
A fileserver workload with 80TB of usable storage available, which contains mostly PDF's and pre-compressed data.
Any reduction in performance of the web servers must be avoided. After entering the workload with default options, the Sizer outputs the configuration shown in the exhibit.
Which adjustment does the systems engineer need to make to the scenario to meet the performance requirements ?
Switch to manual and change the CPUs of the node configuration to a dual 10 core model
Switch to manual sizing and increase the RAM of the node configuration to 384 GB
Increase the vCPU:CPU ratio of the Webserver workload to 6:1
Increase the RAM of the web server workload to 10 GB per VM.
A prospective customer provides RVTools data from their existing environment, and only wants to size for those VMs in use. When entering a RAW Input workload into Sizer, What amount of RAM should be used for the workload?
42 GB
48 GB
52 GB
64 GB
In Sizer, in which two ways can a systems engineer accommodate a specific number of physical host-based software licenses that a customer has available for a project?(Choose Two)
A
B
C
D
A customer needs to deploy 5000 virtual desktops on Nutanix. The requirements call for an active /active deployment, such that an entire site can be made unavailable due to maintenance or disaster without impacting desktop availability.
What is the minimum number of nodes necessary to meet the customer's requirements?
13
26
52
104
What is the main function of Oplog?
-A persistent write buffer to coalesce bursts of random writes before destaging to the extend store
-A memory cache to coalesce all writes before destaging to the extent store
-A persistent write buffer to coalesce all writes before destaging to the extent store
-A memory cache to coalesce bursts of random writes before destaging to the extent store
Which CVM service is responsible for providing storage to the hypervisor?
Genesis
Stargate
Curator
Zookeeper
In addition to the total number of physical CPU cores, which hardware component is used to calculate the cost of Capacity Based Licensing for a Nutanix Cluster?
RAW SSD storage (in TiB)
RAW HDD storage (in TiB)
RAM (in TiB)
RAW total storage (in TiB)
Within a RVTools output, which tab provides actual utilization information on thick provisioned disks?
vPartition
vDisk
vCluster
vInfo
An SE needs to leverage Change Block Tracking when using Xtract to migrate VMs from ESXi to AHV.
Which two source VM requirements should the SE verify? (Choose Two)
Minimum guest OS version
VMware Tools installed
Virtual Hardware version
Nutanix Guest Tools installed
A customer has a requirement to run a single instance Oracle Database VM on AHV that is driving over 250,000 IOPs.
Which AOS feature should be positioned to deliver the highest level of performance?
Volume Group Load Balancer
Data Locality
Shadow Clones
App Mobility Fabric
When planning an Oracle database deployment on Nutanix, which best practice should the SE consider?
Creating one storage container per database
Ensuring deduplication is enabled
Choosing nodes with more cores and lower clock speed
Chossing nodes with higher clock speed and fewer cores.
A prospect facing an upcoming VMware ELA renewal has a management directive to move to public cloud due to perceived cost savings. Their virtualization team currently struggling with refactoring applications for AWS. As a result, the virtualization team is pushing to evaluate VxRail and renew their VMware ELA.
Which two aspects of Nutanix should the SE highlight? (Choose Two)
Multi-hypervisor support
Nutanix Calm
Multi-cluster management
Nutanix AHV
A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event of hardware issues.
What is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster?
4
5
6
7
A prospect is conducting a Nutanix POC process that will measure the time to recover from a power loss, the impact of running multiple workload on the same cluster, and peak storage performance. The POC results will be presented to the CIO.
How can this be achieved with the least room for error?
Use X-Ray to generate a single workload and VDBench for the secondary workload.
Use X-Ray with the included scenario and deliver the X-Ray PDF Report
Use IOMeter and manually power off the nodes. Use the IOMeter UI to generate a report.
Use HCI Bench manually power off the nodes during testing and export Prism Analysis data