A consultant is imaging a Nutanix cluster with VMware ESXi. Foundation returns an error that the media is not a supported ISO. The consultant checks the whitelist file in Foundation and confirms that the version of the ISO is not listed.
Which three actions should the consultant take to resolve this issue? (Choose three.)
A customer has a G6 AHV cluster with 4x10GbE NICs on each node and the following configuration:
* Networking is set to default
* Only two NICs are connected
The customer receives the following critical message:
The NIC is disconnected from the switch, or the switchport is failing.
What should the consultant verify to resolve the issue?
An administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins. The administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 will reduce the login times. Production workloads are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU count on all of the VDI VMs.
What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two.)
The following alert appears on the file server alerts tab in the file server dashboard:
Which two events can generate this alert? (choose two)
A consultant needs to upgrade the ESXi hosts on a Nutanix cluster from version 6.7 to 7.0. vSphere DRS and wMoton are working properly. The consultant needs to use One-Click Upgrade.
Which setting should be verified by the consultant?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Which container advanced setting should be configured to prevent ISO container images from exceeding a 100GB limit.
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?
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 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.)
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A customer has completed and given the pre-delivery questionnaire to the consultant. The customer has indicated that they are using HPE/OEM hardware.
Which action should the consultant take to prepare the laptop and Foundation networking for the installation?
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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?
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?
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 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.)
How should a consultant validate the installed version of an NVIDIA driver in a Nutanix VDI deployment?
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)?
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group
What are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance using AHV Turbo. Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? (Choose two.)
A consultant has completed a cluster build according to the following requirements:
•Syslog Setup with ERROR level Logging
•Proxy Setup
•SNMP v3 Trap setup
When adding the cluster to an existing Prism Central with a proxy setup, the following error is triggered in the Prism Gateway logs:
Caused by: corn.nutanix.util .base.ValidationException: Prism Central is unreachable
What configuration is likely missing?
An administrator receives an error indicating that the CVMs in the cluster are not syncing to any NTP servers. An investigation of the issue finds:
• The NTP servers are configured in Prism
• The time on all CVMs is the same
• Both the CVMs and AHV hosts are configured for the UTC time zone
Which two steps can be taken to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)
While reviewing the BOM during the kickoff call, a consultant notices that there are six NX nodes and 12 SFP+ modules, but no fiber cables are listed.
Which statement is correct regarding this scenario?
An administrator learns that some security settings in a cluster have been changed. The environment is out of compliance with required policies.
Which function should be used to revert any settings that have changed from the defaults and prevent further violations?
An administrator has a 32-node hybrid cluster with CPU, RAM and storage utilization of 80%. A database VM is configured with VM Flash.
What is causing this IO latency?
A consultant is using a customer’s switch for installation. Although the 10GbE ports for each of the hosts are connected to the switch, the nodes fail to be discovered.
What is causing the issue?
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?
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?
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?
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A consultant is trying to test port failover on the node shown in the first exhibit. A continuous ping test is performed to the host. The consultant shuts down one of the links, after which the host ping request times out. The consultant tries to troubleshoot the issue with the customer and sees the information shown in the second exhibit on their Cisco Switches:
What is causing the issue?
Refer to the exhibit.
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator receive the warning massages shown in the exhibit while validating cluster conversion from EXSi to AHV.
What should the administrator do to address this warning in v Center Server?
An administrator is performing a set of routine checks and notes that Prism Central is running with 4 vCPUs and 21 GB RAM. The organizations environment is based on two Nutanix clusters with 170 VMs plus a Legacy vSphere infrastructure. No manual changes have been done on Prism Central VM.
Which configuration justifies the current Prism Central configuration?
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 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 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?
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 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?
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?
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An administrator creates a security policy that isolates their financial application from accessing the Internet When viewing the policy in Prism Central, several connections from the application are outbound to the Internet.
What is causing this issue with the policy?
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?
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?
When utilizing the Nutanix cluster As Built Document generator, which two configuration elements should a consultant provide when running the run_as_built.exe command? (Choose two.)
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.)
What is the minimum number of nodes required for a Nutanix Cluster to support Replication Factor 3 (RF3) on a storage container?
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?
The following critical Availability Alert displays in prism Central:
The protection Policy PP-BCA-1HR includes a business critical application with a 1-hour snapshot frequency.
What is causing this issue?
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?
What are the two most important prerequisites to be validated before the consultant goes onsite? (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?
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?
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An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?
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?
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 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?
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?
Where in the Support Portal is the Best Practices guide for vSphere Networking located?
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?
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?
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?
What is the default password shipped on new NX hardware from the factory for the ADMIN user on IPMI?
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
A Nutanix host is connected as shown in the exhibit with br0-up set to active/backup. Physical Switch 1 experiences a power outage causing br0-up to failover to using eth2. The CVM and host become inaccessible. User VMs restart on other hosts in the cluster, which causes a disruption to those VMs.
Which configuration issue likely caused this outage?
Which subnet should a consultant be aware is reserved for internal connectivity within a Nutanix cluster?
A consultant is reimaging a Nutanix cluster with a supported ISO, but Foundation returns an error that the media is not a supported ISO.
Which two actions should the consultant take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)
A systems administrator configures a protection domain replication between two Nutanix clusters. After the first successful replication , the administrator tests DR by clicking activate on the remote cluster.
While VMs are active on the remote cluster, the protection domain is marked as active on both clusters.
What steps are required to return both clusters to their original state?
A 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?
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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?
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?
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
A consultant migrated multiple VMs to a new cluster. VMs were previously in VLAN 10.
Why can the VMs no longer communicate on their network?
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 deletes a large amount of data from a Volume Group presented to a Linux VM. The administrator notices that the deleted data has not been reclaimed as usable storage.
What action should be taken to reclaim the storage capacity?
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?
A customer racks all nodes in the new cluster. The customer does not allow IPv6 for node discovery.
The consultant is not allowed to use the consultant’s own flat switch in the customer’s environment.
Which step should the consultant take to resolve this issue?
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 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?
After a consultant runs Foundation, the imaging process fails.
In which two locations can the consultant find the logs? (Choose two.)
In which part of the Knowledge Transfer can the customer learn how to create, escalate, comment, and close cases?
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?
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?
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