NCP Storage Management and Data Services

Question 1

Which Nutanix storage feature automatically moves data between SSD and HDD tiers based on access patterns?

Accepted Answer

Intelligent Tiering (ILM)

Answer

Erasure Coding

Answer

Deduplication

Answer

Compression

Question 2

What is the default replication factor (RF) in a Nutanix cluster that protects against a single node failure?

Accepted Answer

RF2

Answer

RF1

Answer

RF3

Answer

RF4

Question 3

Which Nutanix data efficiency feature eliminates redundant data blocks across a storage container?

Accepted Answer

Deduplication

Answer

Compression

Answer

Erasure Coding

Answer

Thick Provisioning

Question 4

In Nutanix AOS, what is a Storage Container?

Accepted Answer

A logical storage policy grouping that maps to a datastore

Answer

A Docker container used for application isolation

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A physical drive enclosure in the node

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A backup repository target

Question 5

Which Nutanix feature reduces storage space by encoding data with parity, tolerating failures with less overhead than full replication?

Accepted Answer

Erasure Coding (EC-X)

Answer

Deduplication

Answer

Shadow Clones

Answer

Compression

Question 6

What is the function of the Nutanix Curator service?

Accepted Answer

Performs background data integrity scans, compression, and deduplication jobs

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Manages VM snapshot schedules

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Handles live migration of VMs between nodes

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Provides REST API access to Prism

Question 7

When configuring a Nutanix storage container, what does enabling 'Thin Provisioning' mean?

Accepted Answer

Storage is consumed only as data is actually written

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Disk space is pre-allocated at creation time

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Data is compressed before being written to disk

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Snapshots are automatically taken every hour