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Storage Management and Data Services Flashcards

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  1. Which Nutanix service is responsible for managing metadata and ensuring data locality on the platform?

    Answer: Cassandra

    Cassandra is the distributed metadata store in Nutanix AOS that tracks the location of all data blocks across the cluster, enabling fast lookups and data locality.

  2. What is the primary purpose of Nutanix Shadow Clones?

    Answer: To cache frequently read VM disks on local nodes to reduce network I/O

    Shadow Clones cache read-only VM disk data locally on nodes that frequently access it, reducing cross-node network traffic and improving read performance.

  3. What does the Stargate service in Nutanix AOS primarily handle?

    Answer: All data I/O operations including reads and writes

    Stargate is the data I/O gateway service in AOS that handles all read and write operations, applying storage policies like compression, deduplication, and replication.

  4. In Nutanix, what is the minimum number of nodes required to enable Erasure Coding (EC-X)?

    Answer: 4 nodes

    EC-X requires a minimum of 4 nodes in the cluster because it needs to distribute data strips and parity blocks across enough nodes to achieve meaningful fault tolerance.

  5. Which Nutanix protocol allows VMs to access block storage volumes directly, bypassing the hypervisor datastore?

    Answer: iSCSI

    Nutanix Volumes (formerly Acropolis Block Services) exposes iSCSI LUNs that can be attached directly to VMs or physical hosts, enabling block-level access to Nutanix storage.

  6. What Nutanix data service provides native file storage (NAS) capabilities on the Nutanix platform?

    Answer: Nutanix Files (formerly AFS)

    Nutanix Files (formerly Acropolis File Services/AFS) provides scalable SMB and NFS file shares natively on the Nutanix cluster using dedicated FSVMs.

  7. When Nutanix compression is set to 'Inline', when does compression occur?

    Answer: Immediately as data is written to disk

    Inline compression processes and compresses data immediately in the write path before it is persisted to disk, maximizing storage savings from the moment data is written.

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