Nutanix NCP Flashcards

Which Nutanix AOS feature reduces storage consumption by identifying and eliminating redundant data blocks across VMs in a storage container?

Answer: Deduplication

Deduplication eliminates duplicate data blocks within a container, significantly reducing storage footprint especially in VDI environments with many similar VMs.

In Nutanix, what does 'Erasure Coding' (EC-X) provide compared to standard replication?

Answer: Equivalent data protection with lower storage overhead

Erasure Coding provides the same data protection as RF-2 or RF-3 while using significantly less storage capacity by storing parity data instead of full replicas.

Which Nutanix product provides a Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications on Nutanix infrastructure?

Answer: Nutanix Karbon

Nutanix Karbon (now NKE - Nutanix Kubernetes Engine) is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies deploying, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters on Nutanix.

What is the function of the Nutanix 'Stargate' service running on each CVM?

Answer: Handles all VM I/O requests and data path operations

Stargate is the data I/O gateway on each CVM that handles all read and write operations between the hypervisor and the distributed storage fabric.

In Nutanix Calm, which entity represents a deployable unit consisting of multiple services, configurations, and actions for an application?

Answer: Blueprint

A Blueprint in Nutanix Calm defines the complete application topology, including services, dependencies, credentials, and lifecycle actions for automated provisioning.

Which Nutanix feature allows administrators to specify that certain VMs should always run on specific hosts or be kept away from specific hosts?

Answer: VM-Host Affinity Policies

VM-Host Affinity Policies in AHV allow administrators to define rules that pin VMs to specific hosts or ensure VMs are spread across different hosts for HA.

What is a Nutanix 'Consistency Group' used for within a Protection Domain?

Answer: Grouping VMs so their snapshots are taken simultaneously for crash consistency

A Consistency Group within a Protection Domain ensures that all included VMs are snapshotted at the exact same point in time, maintaining write-order consistency for multi-VM applications.