Nutanix Exam Nutanix AHV Virtualization & VM Management 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which hypervisor is natively bundled with Nutanix AOS at no additional license cost?
- VMware ESXi
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) (Correct answer)
- Citrix XenServer
Correct answer: AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor)
AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) is Nutanix's native, license-included hypervisor built on KVM/QEMU, eliminating third-party hypervisor licensing costs.
Question 2: Which Nutanix management interface is used to create and manage virtual machines on AHV?
- VMware vCenter
- Prism Element or Prism Central (Correct answer)
- Microsoft SCVMM
- Nutanix Move
Correct answer: Prism Element or Prism Central
VMs are created and managed through Prism Element (single-cluster) or Prism Central (multi-cluster), Nutanix's native management planes.
Question 3: How are VM disk images stored in a Nutanix AHV environment?
- VMDK files on an NFS datastore
- VHD files on an iSCSI LUN
- vDisks within the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (Correct answer)
- Raw disk-mapped volumes on local storage
Correct answer: vDisks within the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric
Nutanix stores VM disks as vDisks within the Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF), providing built-in redundancy, performance, and data locality.
Question 4: What AHV feature enables a running VM to be moved to a different host without any downtime?
- Cold migration
- Snapshot and restore
- Live migration (Correct answer)
- Cluster node expansion
Correct answer: Live migration
AHV live migration transfers a running VM between hosts transparently with no service interruption, similar to VMware vMotion.
Question 5: Which Nutanix tool is specifically designed to migrate VMs from VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V to AHV?
- Prism Central import wizard
- Nutanix Move (Correct answer)
- Nutanix Calm
- Nutanix Era
Correct answer: Nutanix Move
Nutanix Move (formerly Xtract) is the dedicated cross-hypervisor VM migration tool that handles disk conversion and cutover automatically.
Question 6: Which virtual network adapter type is recommended for optimal VM network performance on AHV?
- E1000
- RTL8139
- VirtIO (Correct answer)
- VMXNET3
Correct answer: VirtIO
VirtIO is the paravirtualized network driver recommended for AHV VMs, offering the best throughput and lowest CPU overhead on KVM-based hypervisors.
Question 7: What is the correct method to install a guest OS on a newly created AHV VM using an ISO image?
- Import an OVF template
- Clone from an existing VM
- Mount the ISO as a CD-ROM device and boot from it (Correct answer)
- Use PXE network boot only
Correct answer: Mount the ISO as a CD-ROM device and boot from it
In AHV, you attach an ISO file as a virtual CD-ROM to the VM and configure it to boot from that device for OS installation.
Nutanix Exam Nutanix AHV Virtualization & VM Management 1
Which hypervisor is natively bundled with Nutanix AOS at no additional license cost?