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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 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?
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 receives an alert in Prism indicating that interface eth2, on an AHV host is receiving many CRC errors. After togging into the problematic host, the following command is run to show the indicated output:
What is causing this issue?
A customer has the following requirement for a Nutanix cluster:
How should the customer optimize networking?
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?
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?
Imaging fails for one or more nodes in the cluster
A log file displays this output:
Interface ethO has an uplink.
Downloading livefs files... Connecting to 10.249.230.171:8000 (10.249.230.171:8000) [80.852033] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
tar: short read livecd files not found.
What is the possible root cause?
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 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?
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 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?
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.)
Where in the Support Portal is the Best Practices guide for vSphere Networking located?
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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?
An administrator is configuring an All Flash cluster to support the following workloads:
• Full clone virtual desktops
• Hadoop
• Write heavy databases
Which three correct configuration options should the administrator use to meet the item requirements? (Choose three.)
For each procedure, indicate whether it is a correct or incorrect procedure that must be configured to meet the item requirements using the drop-down option.
An administrator 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?
A system administrator needs to shut down an AHV node in a Nutanix cluster without causing service disruption. The administrator checks data resiliency and verifies that the cluster can tolerate a node down.
Which three steps should the administrator perform next? (Choose three.)
A consultant attempts to perform an LCM inventory after successfully creating the cluster, but is met with the following error:
LCM Exception [LcmExceptionHandler]: Could not find a module for entity with reference name nutanix.ncc.update
What is the most likely reason LCM inventory/update is failing?
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 consultant is conducting a vSphere cluster deployment. As a part of operational tests, a vMotion operation is performed on a test VM, but fails with following error message:
The VMotion failed because the ESX hosts were not able to connect over the VMotion network. Please check your VMotion network settings and physical network configuration.
VMotion [184329483:1276605211167987] failed to create connection with remote host <10.10.16.14>: The ESX hosts failed to connect over the VMotion network Migration [184329483:1276605211167987] failed to connect to remote host <10.10.16.14>: Timeout
What issue could prevent the vMotion operation from completing successfully?
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 receives a notification that storage in a Nutanix cluster is unavailable. The cluster consists of five nodes and is configured with a Fault-Tolerance level of 1 (FT-1).
Upon investigation, the administrator finds the following:
• All AHV hosts are powered on and the CVMs are running
• Nodes A, B, and C are connected to one top of rack switch
• Nodes D and E are connected to a second top of rack switch
• The cluster status command run on Node A shows that CVM services on nodes D and E are down
Which issue is causing the storage outage?
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?
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Which IP addresses can be configured for the Foundation VM and Consultant Laptop?
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 viewing an ESXi host via console without external network connectivity.
Which two IP addresses can be used to connect to the CVM (Choose two.)
A customer recently set up Async Replication between Site A and Site B. The customer wants to conduct a planned failover and clicks Activate on Site B.
The customer then runs the following command on Site A:
ncli pd deactivate_and__destroy_vms name=
What does this do to the customer environment?
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?
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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?
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?
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?
Which two components are required to validate and Foundation a cluster with ESXi as the hypervisor? (Choose two.)
To ensure VM availability when a service outage has occurred, a customer has requested that automatic VM failovers must occur as part of the DR strategy for their environment.
Which failover operation is within an Unplanned Failover option?
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 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 consultant has deployed a Nutanix cluster with AOS 5.10.x, then discovers the customer’s environment is running on AOS 5.6.x. The consultant decides to re-image the cluster using the foundation Java applet. During the Foundation discovery, all cluster nodes display a status of Unavailable.
What should the consultant do to resolve the issue?
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 new Nutanix cluster is ready for production on a remote site with no IT staff. Changes to the infrastructure will cost money and probably cause a cluster stop. The administrator needs to perform a health check on the environment that should include:
• Network connectivity checks
• Network performance status
• Storage performance status
Which tool should be used to perform this test?
A consultant deploys a Nutanix cluster with AOS and ESXi. The cluster is managed by a vCenter server.
After installation, what should the consultant do to ensure the cluster will support network segmentation?
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 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?
An existing Nutanix customer has several clusters in production and is adding a new cluster. The customer wants to create an AHV cluster that has already been racked and powered on remotely, with the factory image, using Prism Central.
Which step should the consultant take next?
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)
An administrator is deploying Nutanix Files 3.5 and needs to configure the sizing of the FSVMs for an increased number of concurrent SMB connections over the default 750.
What should the administrator do?
What reference materials should be provided to the customer during the Knowledge Transfer?
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A consultant is installing AOS 5.10 and ESXi 6.5 on three nodes. During the Foundation process, ESXi 6.5 is not available as one of the choices for hypervisor.
Which solution should the consultant use?
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A consultant is conducting cluster deployment using Foundation VM on a laptop.
What troubleshooting step is required?
While trying to upgrade AOS in a cluster, a consultant receives a warning message that there are two powered-on VMs that need to be powered off for the upgrade to proceed.
What would cause this warning to be issued?
A customer wants to know the details of network validation testing.
Where can the consultant find this information?
During the cluster deployment, a consultant conducts operational tests on a vCenter-managed ESXi hypervisor.
As a part of tests, vCenter must place the host into maintenance mode, however, the task is stuck and the CVM is not shutting down automatically.
What should the consultant do to resolve the 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 creates a new cluster using ESXi as the hypervisor. After creating the cluster, the consultant begins to run Life Cycle Manager (LCM) updates. During the LCM upgrade pre-checks, an error is returned.
Which configuration is causing this issue?
An administrator has an existing Nutanix seven-node cluster running at RF2 that must be changed to have the following capabilities:
• RF3 set for the cluster
• Performance tier deduplication
What is the minimum memory needed on the CVMs to allow for these capabilities?
Which Nutanix tool does the Field Installation Guide provide instructions for?
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?
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 consultant has finished imaging all assigned clusters and is ready to close out the engagement
Which action is part of the Closeout Checklist?
An administrator recently added VLAN 205 CRM in Prism Element. The workloads attached to the associated NICs are unable to establish network connectivity.
Which Layer 2 protocol allows the administrator to troubleshoot this issue from Prism Element?
During the Knowledge Transfer, the customer askes where to find the details about their Nutanix environment, such as IP addresses, storage containers, and configuration.
Where can the consultant find this information?
A customer is deploying Nutanix AHV clusters over hundreds of remote sites worldwide. Prism Central will be used to centrally manage all clusters. Customer security policy requires the use of MS Active Directory (AD).groups to authenticate all network devices.
Which method should be consultant use to meet the requirements?
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?
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An administrator logs in to Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the Hardware Diagram section.
What should the administrator do?
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?
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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 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?
As a consultant concludes the project for deploying a new cluster, the customer expresses plans to repeat the process in-house for one of the company's dark site locations.
What three items can the consultant deliver in closing to help ensure customer's success in deploying and supporting Nutanix clusters?
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 new Nutanix customer suspects that network traffic is going over the 1G interfaces instead of the 10G interfaces.
How should a consultant confirm that the traffic is only traversing the 10G interfaces?
A consultant creates an AHV cluster and connects the Intel X550T NICs to the top of rack switch using Twinax cables. The activity and link lights are green. The cluster cannot communicate over the 10GbE link.
What is the first command the consultant should perform to troubleshoot the issue?
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?
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An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts.
What must be changed to enable full inter-VM communications?
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 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 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 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?
After the migration, some SQL queries take longer to execute than prior to migration.
The following SQL best practices were applied while creating the SQL VM on Nutanix:
•8 vDisks per SQL server VM
•Database and Log files on separate vDisk
•2 TempDB database drives and 1 TempDB log drive
What should the administrator to do improve the SQL Server performance?
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.)
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?
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 successfully installs the Foundation VM on a laptop and needs to ensure the VM can communicate externally.
Which two configuration changes should the consultant make next? (Choose two.)
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 is running the Foundation VM using desktop virtualization software. No nodes are discovered.
What should the consultant verify first?
A consultant is preparing for a cluster deployment and evaluates portable Foundation.
Laptop configuration is as follows:
•CPU: 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
•Memory: 4GB RAM
During the installation, the consultant encounters some errors and tries to troubleshoot.
What could prevent successful installation and Foundation usage?
A VM is exhibiting one or more of the following baseline values based on the past 30 days:
• CPU usage < 20%
• CPU ready time < 5%
• Memory usage < 50% (moderately) or < 20% (severely)
• Memory swap rate = 0 Kbps
Which type of VM is being described?
A consultant creates a Nutanix cluster using the 10.10.10.0/24 network and VLAN 10. The customer creates a VM network inside the Prism using VLAN 20. The customer starts to create VMs but is unable to ping the default gateway from these new systems.
What is causing the issue?
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?
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?
A customer is running out of storage in an ESXi cluster. The customer wants to add storage without paying for an additional hypervisor license.
Which option should the consultant recommend to meet the requirement?
