Nutanix Exam Data Analysis & Reporting 2

Question 1

Which Nutanix Prism Central feature allows administrators to create custom dashboards with widgets showing real-time cluster metrics?

Accepted Answer

Prism Central Dashboards

Answer

Prism Central Dashboards let administrators build custom views with metric widgets for real-time monitoring across clusters.

Question 2

In Nutanix Prism, what does the 'Controller VM (CVM) CPU Usage' metric primarily indicate?

Accepted Answer

Storage I/O processing overhead on the CVM

Answer

CVM CPU usage reflects the overhead of processing storage I/O, data protection, and distributed storage fabric operations.

Question 3

An administrator notices that Prism's storage capacity report shows 'Effective Capacity' is significantly lower than 'Raw Capacity'. What is the most likely explanation?

Accepted Answer

Erasure coding and replication factor overhead reduce usable space

Answer

Replication factor (RF2/RF3) and erasure coding consume raw capacity for redundancy, reducing effective usable storage.

Question 4

Which report in Nutanix Prism Central provides a breakdown of VM resource consumption grouped by Nutanix category tags?

Accepted Answer

Chargeback/Showback Report

Answer

The Chargeback/Showback report in Prism Central groups resource consumption by category tags, enabling cost allocation per team or project.

Question 5

What is the purpose of the 'Runway' metric shown in Nutanix Prism's capacity planning?

Accepted Answer

Predicts how many days until a resource reaches capacity

Answer

Runway is a forward-looking metric that estimates the number of days before a resource (CPU, memory, or storage) is fully consumed at current growth trends.

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