Nutanix Exam Nutanix AHV Virtualization & VM Management

Question 1

Which hypervisor is natively bundled with Nutanix AOS at no additional license cost?

Accepted Answer

AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor)

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Prism Element or Prism Central

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

vDisks within the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Live migration

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Nutanix Move

Answer

Nutanix Move (formerly Xtract) is the dedicated cross-hypervisor VM migration tool that handles disk conversion and cutover automatically.

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