Nutanix Exam Introduction to Nutanix 5

Question 1

What is 'Nutanix Foundation' primarily used for?

Accepted Answer

Imaging and bootstrapping new Nutanix nodes and clusters

Answer

Foundation is a Nutanix tool used to image bare-metal nodes with AOS and the hypervisor, and to bootstrap new clusters during initial deployment.

Question 2

How does Nutanix Erasure Coding (EC-X) differ from RF2 replication?

Accepted Answer

EC-X uses mathematical parity to rebuild lost data, consuming less space than full replicas

Answer

Erasure Coding uses parity chunks to reconstruct lost data, achieving similar fault tolerance as RF2/RF3 but with significantly less storage overhead.

Question 3

Which Nutanix feature enables administrators to set resource limits and reservations for groups of VMs sharing a cluster?

Accepted Answer

Categories and Policies

Answer

Nutanix Categories allow VMs to be grouped logically, and policies (including resource limits) can be applied to those groups consistently.

Question 4

What is the function of the 'Nutanix Acropolis' layer?

Accepted Answer

It is the platform layer combining AHV hypervisor and Distributed Storage Fabric

Answer

Acropolis is Nutanix's core platform layer that bundles AHV (the hypervisor) and the Distributed Storage Fabric into one integrated compute and storage stack.

Question 5

In Nutanix terminology, what is a 'vDisk'?

Accepted Answer

A virtual disk file stored in the Distributed Storage Fabric that backs a VM's drive

Answer

A vDisk is a virtual disk object stored within Nutanix DSF that represents a VM's virtual hard drive, abstracted from physical storage.

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