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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 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 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?
An administrator wants to utilize Network Visualization to monitor the physical and logical network on the Nutanix cluster. The first-hop switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still not being displayed.
What is causing this problem?
A customer wants to know the details of network validation testing.
Where can the consultant find this information?
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?
What reference materials should be provided to the customer during the Knowledge Transfer?
A consultant wants to expand a Nutanix cluster based on Dell PowerEdge servers and notices the nodes have arrived software-less.
Which two actions should the consultant take to expand the cluster? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
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?
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?
After the successful creation of clusters, the customer wants to ensure that alerts are sent automatically to Nutanix support.
Which Nutanix feature should the consultant ensure is enabled?
In a 20-node ESXi deployment, the customer needs additional resiliency to survive the loss of two nodes concurrently.
Which configuration should the consultant use to ensure that the appropriate resources are available?
A consultant is preparing to add new nodes into an existing cluster. The current cluster AOS version is 5.8. The new expansion node is currently running AOS 5.9 code. The cluster must continue to run at its current AOS version.
Which method can be used to successfully add the node?
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?
A VM does not have enough resources for the demand, which leads to performance bottlenecks. The VM is exhibiting one or more of 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?
In preparing to install a new cluster for a company, a consultant needs to complete an installation worksheet.
Which values must be documented prior to initial base system setup?
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 will be doing an install for an enterprise customer. The consultant has racked up, powered on, and connected their Foundation software to the new nodes. The Foundation VM is not discovering the hardware.
What should the consultant do to resolve this issue?
An administrator needs to configure snapshots for DR scenarios. The databases get refreshed on Friday nights regularly. The search service application re-indexes the new application on Saturday nights regularly. The remaining front-end and middle tier VMs are static but do get minor version updates weekly.
The administrator needs to have 2 weeks of daily snapshots for all the VMs in an app group and 2 weeks application consist local snapshots only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on the same group of VMs.
Which two options should the administrator use to configure snapshots?
A consultant notes that a customer environment requires Nutanix storage containers to be mounted on non-Nutanix hosts for manual data migration workflows.
What configuration should the consultant validate to ensure setup was performed properly?
Refer to the exhibits.
An administrator has reported that a new VM is not performing well.
After analyzing the information presented in the exhibits, which option shows the best conclusion regarding this workload?
A consultant is deploying a two-node cluster at a remote branch office.
Which component must be available to complete cluster configuration?
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
Which IP addresses can be configured for the Foundation VM and Consultant Laptop?
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?
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 consultant successfully creates a Nutanix cluster. The consultant needs to configure containers for the customers business critical applications and general server workloads. The customer requirements are to achieve maximum storage space savings and optimize
I/O performance.
What setting(s) should the consultant enable on the storage container(s)?
A consultant deploys a four-node VMware ESXi cluster and vCenter server. An HA/DRS cluster is configured for all four nodes. The customer deploys five new VMs on the cluster.
During the knowledge Transfer, a network cable on one node is removed to demonstrate HA and migration of the VMs to another host. In the HA/DRS cluster settings, the VM Restart Priority for all CVMs is set to Disabled. The customer observes warnings that the CVM on the ejected host is no longer powered on.
Which ESXi HA/DRS cluster setting is missing?
What is the minimum number of nodes required for a Nutanix Cluster to support Replication Factor 3 (RF3) on a storage container?
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 preparing to foundation over a customer network that has the following criteria:
* VLAN segmented network
* VLAN tags on the nodes must be imaged prior to starting the foundation process.
For each node, the consultant has done the following:
* Connected to the Network Crash Cart of the Node
* Logged in using “root” credentials
What should the consultant do next?
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 showing the Prism Element Web Console to a customer and wants to check that cluster health is OK. During validation, the Health menu raises critical alerts about components using default passwords.
The cluster is based on ESXi as hypervisor, where Prism Central and Nutanix Files are deployed. Passwords have already been changed for a few components, but some of them have been left by default.
How can the consultant check and handle that situation?
A consultant is working to setup the network before starting the Foundation process.
How should the consultant complete this task?
Which subnet should a consultant be aware is reserved for internal connectivity within a Nutanix cluster?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 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?
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?
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.)
How should a consultant verify that a Nutanix cluster can tolerate a single-node failure?
A consultant notices while assigning VLAN tags to hosts and CVMs in a running cluster, that Prism Element displays alerts indicating a node is down.
What should the consultant do to prevent these alerts?
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?
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?
Refer to Exhibit:
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?
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?
In which part of the Knowledge Transfer can the customer learn how to create, escalate, comment, and close cases?
Which two components must be identified to validate that software compatibility requirements are met for Nutanix Cluster Installation? (Choose two.)
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?
An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is this happening?
A consultant is installing Nutanix AOS on Cisco UCS.
Which method should be used to install AOS on UCS hardware platforms?
After an onsite cluster deployment, a consultant prepares the deliverables for a project closeout.
Which two data in the As-Built Guide require adjustment or might be missing completely? (Choose two.)
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?
In which two ways can the IPMI address be set on a Nutanix hardware installation? (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?
A consultant is onsite with a customer running Foundation VM (FVM) and discovers that there is no connectivity between the FVM and their laptop. The consultant verifies the following:
* The consultant’s laptop and Nutanix nodes are plugged into a flat switch.
* The laptop, switch and nodes are plugged into supported power supplies.
* The laptop network adapters and FVM are configured with their corresponding IP addresses.
What is the cause for the connectivity failure to the FVM?
A customer has requested help deploying a small single-VM instance of Prism Central in their environment that will be used for managing less than 100 guest VMs and registered to a single 5-node cluster. Due to business needs, the customer also plans to consume additional service features within the PC platform.
The consultant discusses with the customer and ultimately decides to deploy a small 3-VM instance to better account for possible resource overhead required once the additional services are enabled on the cluster.
The additional services the consultant must enable to meet the customer’s requests are as follows:
•Nutanix Disaster Recovery
•MS-SQL Server Monitonng
•Flow Microsegmentation
Why won’t the plan to deploy a small PC instance work for this customer?
A customer wants to use NIC teaming on an ESXi host using a vSphere Standard Switch configured with the Route based on physical NIC load load balancing option. The customer does not see the option when editing the Teaming and Failover settings for the switch.
How should the consultant resolve this issue?
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 command should be used to configure the bond? (choose two)
A customer is considering increasing the Redundancy Factor from 2 to 3 for a Nutanix cluster in their existing environment.
Which option would provide the company with the optimal solution?
After a recent installation using a flat switch, a consultant notices issues migrating the Nutanix nodes to the customer’s network. The customer states that they are using VLANs on the production switch but not on the dedicated switch for IPMI. The customer does not require a manual configuration of the host and CVM.
What network changes need to be made to correct the issues?
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?
During the knowledge transfer session, a consultant conducts a storage management demo. In the Creating a Storage Container workflow, the customer notices the Advertised Capacity parameter and asks for an explanation.
How should the consultant respond?
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 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?
After finishing customer education during a new cluster deployment, the consultant wants to make sure all in-scope tasks have been completed.
Which document can the consultant use to verify all tasks have been closed out?
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?
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.)
An administrator is implementing a VDI solution. The workload will be a series of persistent desktops in a dedicated storage container within a four-node cluster. Storage optimizations should be set on the dedicated storage container to give optimal performance including during a node failure event.
Which storage optimizations should the administrator set to meet the requirements?
During which part of the Knowledge Transfer does the customer learn about Nutanix basics and their environment at a high level?
Where in the Support Portal is the Best Practices guide for vSphere Networking located?
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?
A consultant is running the Foundation VM using desktop virtualization software. No nodes are discovered.
What should the consultant verify first?
An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix cluster. The application is very transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio.
What should the administrator do?
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.)
An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/S of write throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.
Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?
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?
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?
What are the two most important prerequisites to be validated before the consultant goes onsite? (Choose two.)
TESTED 22 Nov 2024
