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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?
For a new AHV cluster installation, a customer has 20 NX-8155-G6 nodes with quad port SFP NICs.
The customer wants to meet the following guidelines:
* Take advantage of all available 10GbE links
* Achieve maximum throughput per VM
* Use of redundant ToR switches
* Fastest reconvergence during link failure
How should the load balancing be configured on the host?
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?
While creating 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?
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A Foundation install must be done on four NX nodes for a new customer. A consultant need to set up the network onsite before imaging the nodes through the Foundation tool.
The nodes are equipped with two SFP28 25GbE NICs with dual ports, and a 10GBase-T NIC with dual ports as well The customer’s ToR switches are 25GbE datacenter switches, already in production.
What is the appropriate hardware to perform the most reliable imaging of these NX nodes?
Which two components must be identified to validate that software compatibility requirements are met for Nutanix Cluster Installation? (Choose two.)
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? (Choose two.)
After uploading a hypervisor ISO during the Foundation process, a consultant sees a message that the MD5 sum for the hypervisor is not found in the Whitelist file.
Which step should the consultant take next to resolve this issue?
An administrator needs to maximize storage potential in a six-node cluster. The container is configured with the following:
What should the administrator configure to increase space savings?
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?
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/Host
Which steps should be taken to determine which problem should be addressed first?
A consultant is setting up a new vSphere cluster. 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 settings should be turned on to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
A Nutanix cluster is deployed with the following configuration:
• Three four-node blocks (A, B, and C)
• All Flash Redundancy Factor 2
What is the effect of simultaneous disk failures on two nodes located in block A?
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?
A consultant is using the Foundation applet to create a cluster. During the process the consultant refreshes the progress bar web page and is concerned when nothing loads.
What should the consultant do to verify that Foundation has completed successfully?
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?
A consultant is reviewing a customers Pre-delivery Questionnaire.
The customer wants to deploy their cluster with ESXi as the hypervisor with vSphere Distributed Switch. The customer will be using Cisco Nexus 9k as their switch choice In the kick-off call, it is confirmed that the customer has a business requirement to use LACP in their environment.
What should the consultant ensure that the customer configures on the port-channel interface before deployment?
A Nutanix cluster has 10TB usable storage. The customer wants to create a 100GB datastore for ISO images to eliminate too much storage being consumed by unnecessary images.
Which setting should be used to accomplish this goal?
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.
A consultant is planning to use a flat switch for installation.
What is the network requirement for Foundation VM, CVM, Hypervisor, and IPMI
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?
During a technical call with a customer, it is identified that this installation will be software only on Dell servers. The out-of-band management interfaces will not be given IP addresses until the consultant is onsite.
Which Foundation method should be used for this type of installation?
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?
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?
During the knowledge transfer session, a consultant conducts a storage management demo. In the Creating a Storage Container workflow, the customer notices the Reserved Capacity parameter and asks for best practices related to it.
How should the consultant respond?
Refer to the exhibit.
A Microsoft SQL 2016 deployment is shown in the exhibit. The administrator receives user reports that database queries take too long to return.
Which optimization should be made to this configuration to improve performance?
The customer notices storage latency issues with their new Nutanix AHW cluster. The deployment includes the following components:
◦ 2 ToR switches
◦ 7 nodes
Which command should the consultant run to identify issues?
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?
A customer has a mail server and needs Nutanix to send email notifications about errors that might occur in Prism. The following information is included under SMTP Server Settings
◦IP Address of mail server
◦Port Security Mode
◦From email address
What should the consultant set up before arriving onsite?
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?
A customer wants to ensure that the Data Protection configuration using Protection Domains is fully functional.
The consultant has configured a protection domain for newly-created VMs with static IP addresses on multiple VLANs. The network administrator confirmed that the correct subnets exist at both physical sites.
After performing a failover operation, the virtual machines are turned back on but have no network access.
Which statement describes this issue?
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator logs in to Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the Hardware Diagram section.
What should the administrator do?
An administrator needs to install prism central for their 2550 multi-cluster environment.
How should they deploy the application?
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?
Refer to the exhibit.
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 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 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?
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 customer design calls for link aggregation. Despite the consultant verifying all hosts are correctly configured for fallback per Nutanix best practices, initial testing reveals the aggregate bond fails to pass traffic and shows a status of configured.
What is the most likely cause for the bond disabling and reporting a "configured" status?
Refer to the exhibit.
The customer has an existing NX-3160 block and is adding a second node into it.
Where should the node be installed?"
A consultant has finished imaging all assigned clusters and is ready to close out the engagement
Which action is part of the Closeout Checklist?
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A customer is preparing to expand a cluster with a consultant. The production cluster is comprised of one NX-3460-G7 and two NX-8235 G8 blocks. The running AOS version is 5.20.4.6 and Hypervisor version is ESXi 6.7 U3b. vCenter is also running a 6.7 version.
One NX-3235-G9 block will be added to that cluster (ESXI-NUTA-09 and ESXI-NUTA-10).
The consultant has verified Nutanix documentation and customer’s As-Built guide:
•NX-3060-G7 and NX-8035-G8 are hybrid HCI nodes
•ESXi 6.7 U3b is unsupported for the new G9 hardware model
•AOS 5.20.X and ESXi 6 X are end of support
•NX-3060-G7 and NX-8035-G8 hypervisors can be upgraded to the latest ESXi supported version
What actions should be taken before beginning the cluster expansion?
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?
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?
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.)
While preparing for a new four-node cluster installation, the consultant has a Tech Review Call with the customer. The hardware is as follows:
* 4 nodes in 1 Block
* 8 x 10 GbE Ports
* 4 x 1 GbE IPMI Ports
* Adequate Ethernet ports are available
* Ethernet cables are correct and available
* Adequate rack space is available
Which remaining item must be confirmed as available onsite?
A customer needs a 20-node cluster built. The consultant only has a 16-port flat network switch, and the customer is using VLAN tagging for the hosts and CVMs.
How should the consultant create the cluster?
The consultant is deploying a 20-node AHV cluster, as part of a Nutanix Files deployment.
How many FSVMs can the consultant deploy in this environment?
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?
Refer to the exhibit. 
An administrator logged into Prism Element, notices the following in the home dashboard, and showing the exhibit.
Which action should the administrator take next?
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 TB
Each 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 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?
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?
A customer wants to expand an existing cluster with three additional nodes. After running the Foundation process on the new nodes, the customer realizes that the wrong IPs where used and the nodes are configured on a different network. The customer decides to create a new cluster instead.
Which method should be used to recreate the cluster?
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?
An administrator recently added in 3 nodes to an existing 5 node cluster. While 1 node came with its own block, the other 2 nodes where added to an existing share. After adding the nodes, the administrator sees that the hardware tab displays the correct number of nodes, but incorrect position in the diagram tab.
What should the administrator do to resolve the issue?
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?
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?
In which part of the Knowledge Transfer can the customer learn how to create, escalate, comment, and close cases?
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?
A consultant completes a manual cluster creation of AHV. When the consultant logs into Prism Element, critical error messages appear regarding the hypervisor and NTP.
What component or setting, if misconfigured, would cause these errors?
After installation, network ports are properly configured with the default active-backup bonding.
One 10GbE port goes to switch 1. Another 10GbE port goes to switch 2. A consultant tests failover by manually pulling one of the cables and notices it is taking too much time to failover, which is causing excessive packet loss.
What should the consultant enable to resolve this issue?
A consultant needs to verify the make and model of the systems that will be imaged with Foundation. The consultant does not have the Bill of Materials (BOM) available to review.
When should the consultant verify the make and model to prepare for the cluster deployment?
During the Foundation imaging process, nodes are successfully imaged, but the cluster creation fails.
Which log should the consultant review to determine the cause?
A customer needs to meet the following requirements for their business critical application:
* SQL Servers must be on specific hosts to lower licensing costs.
* Oracle RAC servers must be on separate hosts for licensing reasons
Which policy or policies should be implemented to meet these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit.
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?
A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backed up to a remote location. The remote location is connected using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms.
Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?
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?
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.)
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?
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 IO path of the volume group’s iSCSI targets?
A customer would like to re-image an existing cluster. The Foundation Applet and Foundation VM is unavailable to them.
How can the consultant access Foundation-as-a-Service (FaaS)?
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?
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?
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?
For a new AHV cluster installation, a customer has 20 NX-8155 nodes with quad port NICs. The customer wants to meet the following guidelines:
◦Take advantage of all available 10G links
◦Achieve maximum throughput per VM
◦Use of redundant ToR switches
◦Fastest reconvergence during link failure
How should the load balancing be configured on the host?
A consultant is performing a Nutanix Cluster installation on Dell XC Core hardware. The consultant decides to use Foundation Portable for Mac to perform the installation. When the consultant arrives onsite, Foundation Portable is unable to locate the new nodes.
Which log should the consultant check to troubleshoot this issue?
How should a consultant validate the installed version of an NVIDIA driver in a Nutanix VDI deployment?
Refer to the exhibit.
On a four-node NX-3460 cluster, two 10G NiCs are connected to redundant Cisco ToR 5K switches as shown in the first exhibit Port On a four-node NX-3460 cluster, two 10G NICs are connected to redundant Cisco TOR Sk switches as shown in the fist exthibt. Port failover must be tested.
The network configuration output from the CVM is shown in the second exhibit. To test fallover, a shut command is executed on the switchport that connects the node to the 5k1 switch.
Refer to the exhibit.
A customer has an ESXi cluster with two 10GbE NICs on each node and the following requirements.
◦Solution must follow Nutanix Best Practices
◦Network configuration should be redundant
◦A vSphere Distributed Switch will be utilized
Which load balancing configuration should be used?
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 upgrade
What is causing the current state?
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 an administrator do to resolve this issue?
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?
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?
A consultant needs to image nodes that cannot be discovered with the Foundation VM
The nodes are connected to a flat stitch and
are already part of a Nutanix cluster.
What course of action would result in Foundation success?
A consultant is completing final network failover testing on a recently deployed AHV cluster.
The cluster consists of the following:
•Three nodes
•Two uplinks connected to two switches
•Supported SFPs
The consultant removed one SFP+ out of each node. Two of the nodes (Hostl I Host2) failed over to the backup NIC correctly without any interruption but have lost communication with the third node (Host 3) hypervisor/CVM. Inserting the original SFP+ back into the problematic node allowed the network to be connected and the two healthy nodes could communicate successfully again.
manage_ovs showjnterfaces output
manage_ovs showjinterfaces output:
name mode link speed
cthO 10000 True 10000
ethl 10000 False None
eth2 10000 True 10000
eth3 10000 False None
manage_ovs show.uplinks output:
Bridge: brO
Bond: brO-up
bond_mode: active-backup
interfaces: ethl ethO
lacp: off
lacp-fa I 1 back: false
lacp_speed: slow
What should the consultant validate first?
TESTED 22 Dec 2024
