Nutanix Exam Introduction to Nutanix 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Nutanix component is responsible for managing distributed storage across all nodes in a cluster?
- Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
- Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) (Correct answer)
- Prism Element
- Controller VM (CVM)
Correct answer: Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF)
The Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) aggregates local storage from all nodes into a single shared pool visible to all VMs.
Question 2: In Nutanix, what is the role of the Controller VM (CVM)?
- It hosts user workload VMs directly
- It handles all storage I/O and cluster management on each node (Correct answer)
- It replaces the hypervisor on every node
- It serves as a dedicated backup appliance
Correct answer: It handles all storage I/O and cluster management on each node
The CVM runs on every Nutanix node and handles all storage I/O operations and cluster services for that node.
Question 3: What Nutanix feature automatically moves frequently accessed data to faster storage tiers?
- Erasure Coding
- Data tiering via Intelligent Tiering
- Storage Tiering / Info-tiering (Correct answer)
- OpLog
Correct answer: Storage Tiering / Info-tiering
Nutanix uses intelligent storage tiering to automatically promote hot data to SSD/NVMe and demote cold data to HDD or cloud tiers.
Question 4: Which Nutanix product provides a multi-cloud management and cost governance platform?
- Prism Pro
- Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) (Correct answer)
- Flow Network Security
- Calm
Correct answer: Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) provides intelligent operations, cost governance, and automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Question 5: What does 'RF2' mean in the context of Nutanix data protection?
- Data is compressed and deduplicated twice
- Two copies of data are maintained across different nodes (Correct answer)
- Data is replicated to two external sites
- Two erasure coding parity blocks are used
Correct answer: Two copies of data are maintained across different nodes
RF2 (Replication Factor 2) means Nutanix keeps two copies of all data on different nodes, tolerating one node failure.
Question 6: Which hypervisor is natively included with Nutanix at no additional license cost?
- VMware ESXi
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Nutanix AHV (Correct answer)
- Citrix Hypervisor
Correct answer: Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) is built into Nutanix and included at no extra cost, based on KVM.
Question 7: What is the minimum number of nodes required to form a production Nutanix cluster?
- 1
- 2
- 3 (Correct answer)
- 4
Correct answer: 3
A minimum of 3 nodes is required for a production Nutanix cluster to maintain RF2 data protection and cluster quorum.
Nutanix Exam Introduction to Nutanix 2
Which Nutanix component is responsible for managing distributed storage across all nodes in a cluster?