Wich option should the administrator select from the web console to access the prism

Rest API Explorer?

 User Icon

An administrator is migrating ESXi VMs to a Nutanix AHV Cluster. The VM data is

available to the AHV system.
Wich process must the administrator complete before AHV VMs can be created?

 Import the VMs -flat.vmdk files using the Image Service

An administrator is unable to use Prism interface and is only able reach a Nutanix cluster
by SSHing into CVM.This administrator wants to see a list of the protection domains
configured on the cluster.

Which command will allow the administrator to find this information?

 ncli pd ls

Which two features requiere the Nutanix Guest tools package is installed?

 Self-Service Restore
 Volume Snapshot Service

Clusters are configured with an HTTP Proxy server an adinistrator wants to deploy Prism
Central
Wich scenario requieres the administrator to configure the HTTP proxy white lis
method?

 SSL port 9440 not open in Proxy

An administrators enviroment is planning to migrate the following workloads to a
Nutanix Cluster:

-1 tB read-Heavy SQL database with low overwrites

-5 tb Windows File server
-10 TB splunk instance

Wich Capacity optimization should the administrator select when creating the storage
container?

 In-Line Compression

Wich two items are required to manually upload an AOS update to Nutanix Cluster?

 -AOS Bniary File

 -.JSON File
If a new node is added to an existing cluster what do you need?

 -edit /etc/nutanix/factory_config.json with node position and rack unit

 -run genesis restart

Step to upgrade a new node in expanded cluster

 -Upgrade AOS with the command:

/home/nutanix/cluster/bin/cluster -u new_node_cvm_ip upgrade_node

An administrator migrates a VM with multiple disks from ESXi to AHV. All virtIO were
installed prior the migration. The VM is configured with the correct amount of vCPU and
Memory RAM and when the VM powers on dosnt boot.

Wich misconfiguration is causin the behavior?

 Nutanix Guest Tools was not isntalled before migration

Wich two interfaces can use to run ncc?

 -PRISM Web console

 -CLI
An administrator is migrating VMs to nutanix cluster and the SSD utilization increases to
75%, then continues increase. Which DSF concept is causing this behavior?

 -Redundancy Factor 2
An administrator recently executed maintenance on their network. After, they would
like to verify that this maintenance window did not have any adverse effects on their
Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC). Which two interfaces can be used to run NCC? (Choose
two)

 PRISM
 CLI
An administrator sets up a Protection Domain that replicates to a remote site. The
administrator must perform DR tests every 6 moths. Which snapshots is used when
Activate is clicked on the Remote site's Protection Domain?

 A new snapshot is taken and replicated over from the source cluster
An administrator must make sure that a business critical aplication expreriences
consistent I/O latency. Which feature should the administrator enable to meet this
requirement?

 VM Flash Mode
Which two tasks must an administrator perform before managing Nutanix licenses?
(Choose two)

 Make sure that a cluster has been created

An administrator wants to make sure that the health of a cluster is in a good state.
Which command line utility will provide information related to the health of the cluster?

 Ncc
What is the default behavior for VM High Availability for Nutanix AHV?

 VMs restarts on other hosts as available resources allow

An administrator has two VMs that should not run in the same hosts. Which three
actions should the administrator perform in ACLI to enable this configuration? (Choose
three)

 Create a VM group
 Add VMs to the VM Group
 Set the VM group policy to anit-affinity
An administrator purchases a 4th node to add to an existing 3-node block. Which two
steps should the administrator follow so that the new node appears correctly in Prism?
(Choose two)

 Update the node's factory_config.json with the correct chassis serial number
 Confirm that the CVM on the new node is running the correct AOS version
An administrator with an AHV cluster is unable to use the Prism interface and is only
able to reach a Nutanix cluster by SSHing into a CVM. This administrator wants to
perform a graceful shutdown of a VM named "VM1". Which command will allow the
administrator to execute a graceful shutdown of this VM?

 SSH to the CVM; run acli vm.shutdown

Which Nutanix feature allows for a less than 60-minute RPO and leverages Light Weight
Snapshots (LWS)?

 Near Sync
A client has a 3-node cluster. Utilization rate are currently as follows:
35% CPU
40% RAM
20% SSD
35% HDD
A node in this cluster fails. Which type of degradation will the client experience due to
this node failure?

 VMs from the failed node will be offline until they restart on the remaining nodes
Which Nutanix service can be restarted across the cluster without causing noticeable
impact to the workloads running on the cluster?

 Prism
An administrator needs to deploy a Nutanix cluster that hosts the following workloads:
-1000 persistent virtual desktop VMs
-100 generic server VMs
-5 Microsoft Exchange server VMs
-10 SQL server VMs
Which container configuration should be deployed to maximize data efficiency?

 1 container with compression enabled and 1 container with deduplication enabled

An administrator recently experienced an error in Prism. The administrator wants to
investigate the issue by searching for information in the Nutanix logs. Where should the
administrator go on a CVM to locate these process logs?

 ~/data/logs/
An administrator needs to assess the health of a cluster by running Nutanix Cluster
Chech (NCC) from the command line. Which command will run all non-disruptive NCC
checks?

 ncc health_checks run_all

An administrator needs to modify the configuration of a recently deployed Acropolis File
Server (AFS) instance. Which two are valid configuration settings under the File Server
update option? (choose two)

 File Server VM configuration

 Number of File Server VMs
A Nutanix administrator receives a request from the networking team to start sending
SNMP Traps to their central reporting solution. The administrator creates the transport.
The central monitoring tools in not able to clearly read the SNMP traps that are being
sent. What does the administrator need to provide to read the SNMP Traps correctly?

 SNMP Trap Port

Which two types are stored by the Nutanix Image Service? (choose two)

 ISO
 Disk
Which steps should an administrator take before an AHV Node can be shut down?
1-Shut down or move CVMs to another host
2-Put the node into maintenance mode
3-Shut down the UVM
4-Shut down the AHV Host

Which Nutanix product combines the Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) and Application
Mobility Fabric?

 Acropolis
An administrator migrates an SQL VM to a Nutanix Cluster and installs Nutanix Guest
Tools. A Protection Domain is created to make sure this data is backed up and
replicated. After the backup succeeds, a restore is tried. The data does not restore
properly. Which option must be checked in the Protection Domain to make this SQL
restore successful?

 Create an Application Consistent snapshot

An administrator has observed that when an all-flash AHV host restarts unexpectedly,
one VM it hosts does not restart as expected. Which cluster or VM configuration
explains this behavior?

 Affinity for the VM is set for only the host that rebooted
Which logical component of the distributed storage fabric is used to coalesce small,
random write operations performed by a VM?

 Oplog

nutanix@NTNX-15SM65520206-D-CVM:10.63.30.109:~$ manage_ovs show_uplinks

Bridge br0:
Uplink ports: br0-up
Uplink ifaces: eth3 eth2 eth1 eth0
nutanix@NTNX-15SM65520206-D-CVM:10.63.30.109:~$ manage_ovs show_interfaces
name mode link speed
eth0 1000 False None
eth1 1000 False None
eth2 10000 True 10000
eth3 10000 True 10000

 Update uplink interface br0-up to only contain eth0 and eth1

An administrator is deploying Acropolis Block Service (ABS). Which protocol utilizes
ABS?
  iSCSI

An administrator deploys AFS. The administrator needs to see which resources AFS has
consumed. Which two dashboards in Prism should the administrator click to view AFS
resource allocation? (Choose two)

 File Server
 VM
An administrator wants to be able to manage their applications from Prism Central.
Which feature must the administrator enable to allow for application management?

 Self-Service Portal
An administrator wants to present storage to an external non-Nutanix host via iSCSI.
Which construct should the administrator configure in Prism to create this iSCSI volume?

 Volume Groups
An administrator observed that the number of "Failures Tolerable" reported by the Data
Resiliency Status widget is 1 node. The cluster is configured with a Redundancy Factor of
3. Which parameters should the administrator check to verify that cluster data is at the
corrrect resiliency?

 For each storage container, select Update, check RF under Advanced Settings
An administrator has 1000 virtual desktop deployments for a testing and development
environment. The administrator does not want to leverage production DHCP services in
this solution. Which Nutanix cluster technology should the administrator implement to
meet this requirement?

 IP Address Management (IPAM)

An administrator is setting up Asynchronous Disaster Recovery between two clusters.

The Protection Domain and Remote Site configuration on the source cluster is complete.
Which two actions does the administrator need to perform in the remote cluster for
replication to succeed?

 Create a remote site for the source cluster to be created on the destination cluster
 Activate for the Protection Domain on the remote cluster to start replicating
Which settings is the default network interface load balancing algorithm on a Nutanix
AHV host?

 Active-Backup
Which two targets are valid options when selecting a Remote Site in Prism? (Choose
two)

 Physical Cluster
 Cloud
An administrator wants to view the IOPs statistics for each hosts simultaneously on the
same graph. Which type of chart on the analysis page meets this requeriments?

 Performance chart
Which three settings are required for network switch discovery in prism? (Choose three)

 Switch management IP address

 AHV Host IP addresses
 SNMP Community Name
An administrator needs to power down an AHV Node in order to replace a failed DIMM.
Which step should the administrator take after placing the node into maintenance
mode?

 Shut Down the Nutanix CVM

An administrator is preparing to migrate VMs from a legacy ESXi cluster to a new AHV
cluster. Which action must perform on the AHV cluster to migrate VM data?

 Install the Nutanix VirtIO drivers

An administrator has a 3-node cluster and needs to enable Erasure Coding on a
container. Which action must the administrator take before enabling this feature?

 Add a 4th node to the cluster

An administrator manages a 4-block, 16-node Nutanix cluster. One block experiences a
Power Delivery Unit (PDU) failure. All nodes in that block power off. VMs on the
affecterd nodes restart as expected. The cluster continues normal operation until power
is restored. Which Nutanix feature is responsible for mantaining operations in this
scenario?
  Block Awareness
An administrator needs to configure key-based SSH access to the CVMs in the cluster.
Which configuration option from the gear dropdown Prism menu should the
administrator use?

 Cluster Lockdown
A VM user permanently deletes a directory on a guest VM. The Nutanix Administrator
has enabled Self-Service Retore for this VM. Which three steps must the administrator
perform to restore the directory? (Choose three)

 Launch the Nutanix SSR utility on the VM

 Select and mount the snapshot that contains the deleted directory
 Copy the directory from the snapshot disk to the original VM disk

Which three drivers are included in the Nutanix VirtIO package? (choose three)

 iSCSI driver
 Memory Balloon Driver
 NIC Driver
An administrator encounters an error in Prisn. After searching through the Nutanix
product documentation and knowledge base, the administrator decides to engage
Nutanix Support for further assistance. Which three items will help Nutanix Support to
triage and resolve this error most efficiently? (choose three)

 Cluster name
 NCC output
 Detailed description
An administrator needs to ensure that resources are reserved so that all VMs are able to
restart in the event of a host failure. Which steps should the administrator take to
ensure the cluster is configured and operating properly?

 Under the Gear icon, select Manage VM High Availability and check Enable HA
Reservation
An administrator needs to manage VMs from Prism when the cluster is running on ESXi.
THe VM are greyed out and unavailable. Which procedure should the administrator
complete to manage VMs from Prism when using th ESXi Hypervisor?

 vCenter must be registered on Prism

An administrator is creating a new Windows VM in AHV after migrating its data from
ESXi. Which two parameters should be set identically to the VMs settings in ESXi?
(choose two)

 vCPU cores
 Memory

An administrator installs Nutanix-specific PowerShell cmdlets. the cmdlets fail to run.

Which two requirements should the administrator verify first? (choose two)

 Powershell 2.0 or later is installed

 .Net Framework 4.0 is installed
An engineer logs into a CVM to troubleshoot connectivity loss between two CVMs and
finds the following interfaces, subnets and VLANs configured:
-eth0 - VLAN 10 - 1.1.10.0/24
-eth1 - no VLAN - 192.168.5.0/24
-eth2 - LAN 20 - 10.1.20.0/24
Which Nutanix networking feature is being utilized?

 Internal Switch
An administrator´s cluster experiences a CVM failure. VMs on the nodes continue to
produce IO. The CVM for that node is unavailable. Which Distributed Storage Fabric
(DSF) concept is causing this behavior?

 Data Path Redundancy

A catastrophic failure ocurrs at the primary data center. A protection domain has been
set up. All required data has been replicated to an offsite DR location. Which button
should an administrator click on the remote site's protection domain to bring up the
replicated VMs?

 Activate
For a mission critical VM/App, what DSF feature can be configured per-VM or per VG to
ensure consistent I/O latency?

 Flash Mode
To configure uplink switch ID info in Prism, what 3 criteria is needed?
1. Switch Mgmt IP
2. Hypervisor host IP
3. SNMP profile/community name
In AFS (Acropolis File Services) how many FSVM's are deployed by default?

 3 FSVM's (can be expanded)

Which 3 VM parameters must match when creating a new AHV Windows VM, post
migration from an ESXi cluster?
1. # vCPU's
2. # cores per vCPU
3. Memory

What are the Windows system requirements to use PowerShell cmdlets when scripting
against a Nutanix cluster?
1. PowerShell v2.0 or higher
2. NET framework 4.0
Minimum number of NTP servers required in Prism to identify a "false ticker" AND
provide redundancy?

 4 NTP servers for redudancy & ID false ticker.

(only requires 3 NTP servers for false ticker ID)
Steps to place an AHV host in maintenance mode? (4)
1. aCLI from CVM
2. host.list //note hypervisor addr.
3. host.enter_maintenance_mode <hypervisor_addr>
4. SSH to CVM $ cvm_shutdown -P now
4. ssh to ahv $ shutdown -H now
Steps to start a node in AHV cluster post-maintenance? (3)
1. ssh to ahv & virsh list --all| grep cvm
2. virsh start <cvm>
2.ssh to cvm: acli
3. cvm-acli$ host.exit_maintenance_mode <ahv-ip>
4. exit
4. CVM$ cluster status
Commands to unregister a cluster from Prism Central?(3)
1. ssh to CVM
2. $ncli -h true
3. multicluster remove-from-multicluster external-ip-address-or-svm-ip=<ip>
username=<user> password=<pwd>
What are 3 use cases for compression?

 -User data(vDisk/fileserver) =post-process

 -data analytics, email or database (batch processing) = inline compress
What happens after a host failure?
-HA VMs restarted on another node,
-VM begin r/w i/o across 10g network,
-stargate migrates extents to new hosts for data locality,
-curator detects degraded RF and instructs Stargate to create new replicas,
-VMs will hang, degraded performance on IO
-non HA vms need manual restart

Command to kick of a planned failover/DR test?

 ncli> pd migrate name=<pd> remote-site=<remote>

What is the role of Cassandra service?
Distributed Metadata store, stores & manages all cluster metadata in a distributed ring
like manner. In data RF2, metadata is RF3, in data RF3, metadata is RF5.

Which hypervisors support cluster level D@RE encryption?

 AHV, ESXi & Hyper-V

Explain the ABS (Acropolis Block Services) add-on feature.

 ABS exposures backend DSF storage to external consumers, (OS's, hosts,containers

etc) via iSCSI & leverages an external data services IP to enable external consumers
to point to a single target portal. DSF handles multipathing internally to cluster via
multiple Stargates
What happens in the background during a planned DR failover?
creates & replicates snapshot of PD,
power off guest VMs,
creates & replicates snapshot of PD,
unregisters VMs/VGs,
local site => inactive,
restores VMs/VGs,
remote site => active

Use cases for erasure coding? (5)

file server,
backup,
archive,
email,
logging
(not-frequently overwritten apps)
Migrating prod VMs from ESXi to AHV, what process & file type required for Nutanix
ingestion?
-whitelist esxi cluster ip,
-storage vMotion into Nutanix DSF as temp NFS datastore,
-create new VM with disk "-flat.vmdk" imported from storage vmotion
What is the role of Stargate service?

 Data IO manager: responsible for all data mgmt & IO operations. Main interface
between hypervisor and guest VMs (NFS,iSCSI & SMB). Runs on every node to
ensure data locality.

What happens if a CVM fails?

-if stargate proc. misses >= 2 comms in 30s,
-R/W IOs are redirected to another CVM's stargate,
-data path will traverse the 10G network uplinks on r/w.
-new stargate will create a local copy of the data to restore data locality,
-//temp guest VM hang & degraded r/w performance
What happens if a boot drive fails?
-CVM will fail,
-no guest VMs impacted,
-R/W IOs are redirected to another CVM's stargate,
-data path will traverse the 10G network uplinks on r/w.
-new stargate will create a local copy of the data to restore data locality,
-//temp guest VM hang & degraded r/w performance
What happens if a metadata drive fails?
-Oplog & Cassandra an impacted,
-stargate will eventually be impacted b/c cannot comm. with Cassandra via
Medusa.
-After 5min of no-comm with failed cassandra node,
-the healthy cassandra nodes will detach failed cass from the metadata ring &
rebalance the ring (30-40min self-heal)
What happens if a data drive fails?
-No guest VMs impacted, no data loss.
-Curator instructs Stargate to recreate lost replicas & restore RF-X.
-//replace failed drive ASAP, 2nd failure raises risk of complete data loss in RF2//

Minimum # of nodes required for erasure coding?

 4 nodes
What is the max strip size when using erasure coding?

 4 (blocks) + 1 (parity) = 5

What is the usable capacity on an RF3 cluster with <X> raw storage?

 X/3
Prism central instance: what are the maximum of clusters & VMs supported?

 100 clusters, 10,000 VMs

What is the usable capacity on an RF2 cluster with <X> raw storage?

 X/2
Where are random IO workloads stored in Nutanix DSF?

 Oplog
Where are sequential IO workloads (large contiguous blocks > 512K) stored in Nutanix
DSF?

 Extent store

What is the role of the Zookeeper service?

 Distributed cluster configuration manager. Stores hosts, IPs, states etc. 3

distributed zookeeper services run per cluster, 1 elected master.

How do you reclaim licenses when removing a node from a cluster? (5)
-generate a cluster summary file in prism,
-in Ntx support portal >products>Node Lics
-reclaim unused> upload summary file.
-In reclaim tab decrement node lic count,
-then generate a new summary file and
-upload it back to the cluster

Which hypervisors support container-level D@RE encryption?

 AHV, ESXi & Hyper-V

What's the maximum size of protection domain?

 200 entities
What is a block map in Nutanix DSF?

 A metadata mapping of a vDisk to its extents

What are 3 use cases for deduplication?

full clones,
P2V migration,
persistent/personal desktops
Prism Central VM specification requirements?
256GB disk,
8GB memory,
4 vCPUs
What storage construct is used when mounting nodes to a container in a Hyper-V
cluster?

 SMB share
What storage constructs are used when mounting nodes to a container in an ESXi
cluster? (2)

 NFS datastore or iSCSi target (VG)

What storage construct is used when mounting nodes to a container in an AHV cluster?

 iSCSI target (VG)

How can you change the RF of a storage container to RF3?

 NCLI only: ncli> ctr edit name=<ctr> rf=3

What are the system requirements for to change to RF3?
-Need min 5 nodes,
-RF3 will take up 30% more storage (expand storage drives as needed),
-cannot enable on container with erasure coding, -cannot be reverted

Steps to configure RF3?

-Make sure @ least 5 nodes in cluster,
-set cluster to rf3: Prism>Gear>redundancy state= rf3,
-set container to rf-3 via ncli: ncli> ctr edit name=<ctr> rf=3
What is the overheard of erasure coding in a cluster w/ 4, 5 & 6+ nodes?
4: raw/1.5
5: raw/1.33
6+: raw/1.25
What is an extent in Nutanix DSF storage?

 An extent is logically contiguous chunks of data, grouping of extents constitute a

vDisk
CVM memory capacity required for
cache dedupe?
capacity dedupe?

 Cache dedupe: 24GB

 Capacity dedupe: 32GB
What is an extent group in Nutanix DSF storage?

 Extent groups are physically contiguous chunks of data stored as files on physical
drives.
What DSF feature provides native iSCSI storage?

 Storage containers with volume groups

What are the supported image formats w/in the image service?

 raw, vhd, vdi, vmdk, iso, qcow2

What is a consistency group (CG)?

 A CG is a subset of VMs/files w/in a protection domain that are

snapshotted/replicated in a crash consistent manner, meaning that these
VMs/files are snapshotted in crash-consistent manner to ensure application
interdependency upon restore
What is a protection domain (PD)?

 A PD is a macro-group of VMs/files or even an entire container that are protected

& snapshotted/replicated on the same desired schedule.

What tool is used & supported to customize Linux VMs?

 CloudInit

What tool is used & supported to customize Windows VMs?

 Sysprep

What is the default pulse verbosity sent to Nutanix support?

 Basic coredump
What is node/block awareness? How many blocks are required for block awareness?

 Node/block awareness is the physical separation of data replicas to ensure that is a

node or block fails, there will still be other physical nodes/blocks online with
available replicas. Min: 3 blocks for blockaware clusters.
What is the role of Cerebro service?

 Replication/DR manager: handles & delegates replication & DR invocation for DSF:

all snaphsots, replication to remote site & site migration/failover tasks invoked by
Cerebro & delegated to Stargate.
What is the role of Genesis service?
Cluster component & service manager: handles inter-service interactions (start/stop/etc)
& initial configuration. Independent process from cluster, only requires Zookeeper to be
up & active.
What are 2 types of analysis charts available in Prism?

 Metric chart: 1 metric against multiple entities

 Entity chart: 1 entity against multiple metrics
Can you mix encrypted and unencrypted drives, when the SLED feature is disabled

 No
What is the role of Curator service?
MapReduce cluster mgmt, optimization & cleanup. Manages & distributes tasks to
optimize cluster & ID degraded RF: disk balancing, proactive scrubbing, RF rebuilds.
Runs on all nodes in cluster with a leader.
-full scan every 6 hours
-partial scan every 1 hr.
what is the min amount of nodes for a mixed all-flash/hybrid system

 2
you are not required to register this type of license and it does not expire

 Starter
what appears to the hypervisor like any other centralized storage

 Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF)

where is I/O handled to provide the highest performance

 locally
If SNMP data is erroneous/unreadable in the trap receiver, what is needed?

 NTNX MIB File

_____ _______is the physical separation of data replicas to ensure that is a node or
block fails, there will still be other physical nodes/blocks online with available replicas.

 block awarness
What is the min amount of blocks for block aware cluster

 3

Replication/DR manager: handles & delegates replication & DR invocation for DSF: all
snaphsots, replication to remote site & site migration/failover tasks invoked by ______
& delegated to Stargate.

 cerebro
How big are Extent stores

 512K
For a mission critical VM/App, what DSF feature can be configured per-VM or per VG to
ensure consistent I/O latency?

 Flash Mode
Where do you set the name server

 gear - name servers

why is general purpose NFS or SMB share no recommended

 VM-centric
Is there a performance penalty for encrypting all data

 No
what module do FIPS use to validate drives and cryptographic modules

 FIPS 140-2
_______ are objects that run the diagnostic commands for NCC

 Plugins
_______ are logical groups of plugins that can be run as a set for NCC

 Modules
The plugin returned an unexpected value and must be investigated

 WARN
the plugin returned an unexpected value that however cannot be evaluated as pass/fail
 INFO

how to run more than 1 help check at a time

 ncc health_checks run_all --parallel=4

What is the max Health check run in parallel

 4
Only _______ checks are used if a module is run with the run_all plugin

 Non-intrusive
what is stored at /home/nutanix/data/logs/xxxxxxxxx from the cluster itself

 ncc-output.log
what port number to prism to prism central

 9440 and 80
how often does pulse send to nutanix support

 24 hours by default

If a SSD fails that does not hold ______ data, cluser functions will continue normally

 Cassandra
Drives in a Nutanix node store four primary types of data. What is the first one?

 Persistent data
what is persistent data

 hot-tier / cold-tier
The ______ drive serves many purposes. It holds the _____ for each host, which
provides a fast response to VMs that send write requests.

 metadata / oplog
AHV uses what to provide virtual networking

 Open vSwitch - OvS

Drives in a Nutanix node store four primary types of data. What is the fourth?

 CVM boot files

Drives in a Nutanix node store four primary types of data. What is the Second?

 storage metadata
What does OvS use to provide IP address management

 IPAM
By default OvS behaves like a layer 2 _____ ____

 learning switch
what incepts VM dhcp request and provide IP address

 ip address management - IPAM

IPAM can be used to _______ or _______dhcp in existing networks

 compliment / override
what forwards network traffic between physical and virtual interfaces

 bridges
what aggregates the physical interfaces on the AHV host

 bonded interfaces
what is the default bond mode

 active-backup
what are the other 2 load balancing modes besides active-backup balance-

 slb / tcp
finish the 1st cmd lacp: ahv# ovs-vsctl set port <bond name> __________

 lacp=active
Finish the 2nd cmd lacp: ahv# ovs-vsctl set port <bond name> _________

 bond_mode=balance-tcp

If upstream LACP negotiation fails, the default configuration is to _____ the bond, which
would _____ all traffic.

 disable / block

what does the following cmd do: ahv# ovs-vsctl set port <bond name>
other_config:lacp-fallback-ab=true

 fallback to active-backup
fill in the blank to finish cmd root@ahv# _______ list port br0

 ovs-vsctl
what is the recommended bond mode

 balance-slb

finish the cmd to configure the recommended bond mode: root@ahv# ovs-vsctl set port
<bond name> bond_________

 _mode=balance-slb
Verify the proper bond mode with the following command: ________ bond/show bond0

 ovs-appctl
The ____ adapters should be split into a dedicated bond for user VMs.

 1GB
all ____ instances combine to form a single switch

 OvS
what is the native linux bridge called

 virbr0
what is the virbr0 used exclusively for

 management
The AHV host, virtual machines, and physical interfaces use "_____" for connectivity to
the bridge

 ports
_____ ports act as bridge connections for virtual NICs presented to the virtual machines

 Tap
______ ports are used to the IP address management functionality provided by
Acropolis

 VXLAN
_______ ports provide NIC teaming for the physical interfaces of the AHV host

 bonded
what connects CVM eth1 to the linux bridge virbr0

 vnet1
What port on the CVM connects to the OVS bridge br0

 eth0
What port on OVS bridge br0 connects to the CVM

 vnet0
Acropolis uses ______ and ______ rules in OVS to intercept DHCP requests from user
VMs so that the configured IP address pools and settings are used

 VXLAN / OpenFlow
Do not modify the _____ tables that are associated with the defualt OVS bridge br0

 OpenFlow
to change CVM VLAN_ID, log on to the internal interface that has IP address
192.168.5.____

 254
allows the sharing of guest VM data on Nutanix storage tiers
Dedup
dedup for performance with purchase of starter license or higher

 cache dedup
dedup for persistent data and is available with pro license or higher

 capacity dedup
at what level must cache and capacity dedup be turned on

 container
Compression occurs during or after write operations using the ______ compression
library

 snappy
what type of compression is recommended for most workloads

 post-process
The use of a parity calculation to maintain data redundancy and optimize space savings
is called:

 Erasure
all host within the cluster have visiability to shared storage through what

 CVM
What type of snapshot methodology does Nutanix use?

 Redirect on write
If you create a vsphere _______ pool, CVM must have ___ share

 resource / top
On hyper-v the ______ IO feature, which can cause the nutanix storage to become
unavailable

 multipath
To convert ESXi to AHV ensure that __ and ___ is disabled

 HA / DRS
To convert ESXi to AHV all nodes in the cluster should be running AOS ___ or later

 4.6
Ensure that you have saved all ESXi ISOs at the foundation/isos/_____/esx

 hypervisor
Cluster conversion fails if you have Acroplolis ____ ____ deployed in your cluster

 File services
What 3 ESXi version are supported for conversion to AHV

 5.1 / 5.5 / 6.0U1U2

_____ _______ load balancing policies are not supported and will be converted to
active/passive on AHV

 active / active
VMs running _____ linux enterprise server operating system are not supported

 SUSE
What do you need to do if a VM has a static IP address configured after conversion

 reconfigure IP
ESXi to AHV after migration of VMs is completed, you need to _______ ____ the VMs on
AHV

 manually start
what are the first 3 format that can be imported into image services

 raw vhd vmdk

what are the last 3 format that can be imported into image serveces

 vdi iso qcow2

you can import the images from the ____ or ____ source URL

 http / NFS
you must install ____ drivers on the image prior to importing these images into the
image library

 virtIO
after an image is imported you must ____ a VM from the image that you have _____ and
then delete the imported image

 clone / imported
what is the vDIsk max SCSI bus type

 256
what can SCSI bus type Support guest VM that PCI bus type cant

 Windows / FreeBSD
what is the vDIsk max PCI bus type

 6
The Nutanix-Citrix integration for VDI solutions allows customers to get the
performance of ______ with the simplicity of ______.

 PVS, MCS
Nutanix _____ _____ service communicates with ntnx cvm

 Guest agent
NGT tool called ____ ____ ___ ___ performs self-service file-level recovery from the VM
snapshots

 file level restore CLI

NGT tool that facilitates by providing drivers for VM migration between ESXi and AHV,
in-place hypervisor conversion and cross-hypervisor disaster recovery features

 NTNX VM Mobility Drivers

___ ______ & hardware provider for windows VMs enables ______-consisten snapshots
of AHV or ESXi Windows VMs

 VSS requestor / consistent

NGT supports application-_______ snapshots for linux VMs by running specific _____ on
VM _____

 consistent / scripts / quiesce

what could impact the NGT instances running on the cluster

 virtual IP
Port ____ should be open to communicate with the NGT-______ VM service

 2074 / Controller
What 2 ports must be enabled to use ABS

 3260 / 3205
What version of AOS allows for ABS

 4.7
NTNX manages storage allocation and assignment for ABS through a construct we call a
______ ____

 volume group
A VG is a collection of "______" more commonly referred to as _____

 volumns / vdisks
______ are files created on NTNX containers and represent ____ to the connecting hosts

 vdisk / LUNs
We use ____ as the protocol for presenting VG storage

 iSCSI
Host attain access to ABS VG based on their iSCSI

 initiator IDs