Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional
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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.)
Refer to the exhibit.
A system administrator is using Range-Autofill tool to assign IP addresses to setup a multi-block cluster based on the following configuration:
Which additional changes must be made during the Foundation process to configure the cluster correctly?
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?
An administrator needs to install prism central for their 2550 multi-cluster environment.
How should they deploy the application?
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 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.)
Refer to Exhibit:
A consultant is conducting cluster deployment using Foundation VM on a laptop.
What troubleshooting step is required?
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?
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?
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 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?
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?
A systems administrator needs to add more VMs to their Nutanix cluster.
Which two actions should the administrator perform to determine if the current cluster can accommodate the new VMs? (Choose two.)
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?
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?
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 needs to review a customer’s switch port configuration to identify any issues. Other customer requirements are as follows:
* Leverage LACP
* Native VLAN will not be used
* Use Multiple Upstream switches
* Use VLANs 20-25 and 30
* LACP Fallback has been Enabled
* vPC or MLAG has been configured
What must be included in a configuration in order to meet these requirements?
An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs. This deployment will have the following considerations:
• Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100Mbps
• Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of them at a time
• Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time
• Multicast will not be used in the environment
• The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connections
How should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while maintaining the simplest switch configuration?
Refer to the exhibit.
A consultant is deploying a cluster using the customer-provided IP addressing information.
Which option in Foundation must be configured to ensure connectivity during the deployment?
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.)
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 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?
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 customer has HE servers with DiscoverOS and wants to install a Nutanix cluster.
Which method should a consultant use to meet the requirements?
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 working to setup the network before starting the Foundation process.
How should the consultant complete this task?
Which two components are required to validate and Foundation a cluster with ESXi as the hypervisor? (Choose two.)
In which part of the Knowledge Transfer can the customer learn how to create, escalate, comment, and close cases?
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 consultant deployed a Nutanix Files cluster using separate networks for client and storage.
For testing a SMB standard share, a VM has been deployed on storage network. However, the consultant cannot access the share.
What is the cause of the issue?
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 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 finishes creating a new ESXi cluster. The consultant connects to the nodes via laptop and a personal flat switch. The host/CVM network is on VLAN 23. The customer has the native VLAN on the ToR switches set to 23.
The customer wants to use LACP. Before placing the nodes on the customer network, the consultant tags VLAN 23 for each host and CVM. The consultant connects the nodes to the customer network and finds that they are unreachable.
What is causing this issue?
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?
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?
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 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?
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?
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 is setting up Prism Central to manage multiple Nutanix clusters. The customer requires til redundancy and tre aby to manage up to 12,500 VMs.
Which deployment option should the consultant use to meet the requirements?
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 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?
What is the minimum number of nodes required for a Nutanix Cluster to support Replication Factor 3 (RF3) on a storage container?
Before deploying a new 3-node cluster, a consultant wants to know which VLAN ID to use during Foundation.
Where can the consultant find this information?
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?
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 three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs.
What happens after a node failure?
What should a consultant consider when completing a bare-metal imaging process?
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?
What are the two most important prerequisites to be validated before the consultant goes onsite? (Choose two.)
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?
After a consultant runs Foundation, the imaging process fails.
In which two locations can the consultant find the logs? (Choose two.)
A consultant is planning an installation and needs to collect configuration items to be used during the install. The data needed from the customer are IP addresses, Gateway, DNS servers, and NTP Servers.
Which Cluster Deployment document must be completed with the customer?
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?
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?
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?
During a pre-engagement call, a customer explains that network cables are missing from the boxes. The consultant examines the bill of materials more closely to verify the quantity and type required by the hardware. The rack is already equipped with one OOBM Ethernet switch and two 10GbE SFP+ ToR switches.
Which cables should the consultant recommend to the customer for implementing in this scenario?
An administrator needs to replace the self-signed certificate on a cluster. Which two requirements must be met as part of the process? (Choose two.)
Which two files should be downloaded to deploy Foundation VM on VMware ESXI or AHV Hypervisors? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
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 is notified that a bare metal database server is down. This database server is being served storage using a Nutanix Volume Group. Upon investigating, the administrator finds that the disks in the database server that map to the vDisks in the volume group have gone offline.
What is causing this issue?
During Foundation using a customer-provided network switch, a consultant is facing time-out issues.
What action should the consultant take to resolve this 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.)
During an AHV upgrade, a database VM automatically migrated to another host. A customer is concerned about potential storage performance impact.
Which statement addresses the customer's concern?
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.)
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 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?
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?
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?
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?
In which two ways can the IPMI address be set on a Nutanix hardware installation? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
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.)
After a consultant runs a bare metal Foundation, the imaging process fails.
In which two locations can the consultant find the logs? (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?
Refer to the exhibit.
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 customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding these VMs, the Prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.
What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?
A consultant is working on an expansion project for a customer that has an existing 7-node RF2 cluster. The customer has purchased four more nodes to add to the cluster. All of the hardware is identical between the existing hardware and newly purchased hardware.
Currently, the 7-node cluster has the following utilization:
•CPU: 48%
•Memory: 66%
•Storage: 91%
During the kick-off call, the customer mentioned they'd like to reserve storage capacity on the cluster if a node were to fail in the future.
What's the safest and best way to implement this on the cluster?
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 finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is this happening?
An organization is running a Nutanix Cluster based on AOS 5.10.x and VMware vSphere 6.7. Currently, the CVM network is segmented and Storage only nodes not present.
A new security project based on NSX is coming. VMware Distributed Virtual Switches are required. The administrator needs to prepare the environment for the new project.
Which step should the administrator use to initiate the project?
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 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?
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 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?
From a hypervisor, which IP address should the consultant use to connect to the locally tossed on?
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?
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