NCP Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting 3

Question 1

Which NCC plugin checks that all CVMs can communicate with each other over the backplane network?

Accepted Answer

network_connectivity_check

Answer

The network_connectivity_check NCC plugin verifies backplane network reachability between all CVMs in the cluster.

Question 2

After applying a hypervisor patch, VMs on one host fail to vMotion/live migrate. Which Prism alert category would surface this issue?

Accepted Answer

Compute

Answer

Live migration failures are classified under Compute alerts in Prism since they relate to host and VM compute resources.

Question 3

A cluster running AHV shows high storage latency only during backup windows. What is the BEST initial diagnostic step?

Accepted Answer

Review I/O prioritization settings and check if backup tasks are throttled

Answer

Reviewing I/O prioritization and throttle settings determines if backup workloads are competing for storage bandwidth without proper QoS.

Question 4

Which command on a CVM lists all currently running Nutanix services and their status?

Accepted Answer

genesis status

Answer

Running 'genesis status' on a CVM displays the status of all Nutanix services managed by the genesis process.

Question 5

Prism Central reports a VM with an anomaly score spike. What does an anomaly score represent in Prism Pro?

Accepted Answer

A behavioral deviation score based on machine-learning baselines for VM metrics

Answer

Prism Pro's anomaly detection uses machine learning to baseline VM behavior and flags deviations as anomaly scores.

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