You’re designing a new environment for a critical application that requires extremely low latency and high IOPS. The storage team wants to use all-flash nodes, but management is concerned about cost. Which Nutanix feature would allow you to create a storage pool that intelligently places the application’s hot data on flash while keeping colder data on more economical HDDs, all while presenting a single tier to the application?

A system administrator is trying to understand why a specific virtual machine’s disk performance seems slower than expected. They’ve checked the VM’s configured resources and the host it’s running on, and everything seems adequate. What is the most efficient next step within Prism to quickly identify if the issue is related to contention for shared physical storage resources?

Consider a scenario where you need to perform planned maintenance on a Nutanix block. You’ve live migrated all VMs off the hosts in that block using AHV’s migration capabilities. According to best practices, what is the critical next step you must take before powering down the nodes for hardware work?

Your company’s security policy mandates that all management traffic be isolated on a dedicated network segment. You are setting up a new Nutanix cluster. Which IP address configuration, set during cluster foundation, is primarily responsible for handling the web-based Prism Element management traffic?

During a capacity planning exercise, you notice that the ‘Reserved Capacity’ in Prism is significantly lower than the ‘Total Capacity’. Which Nutanix data reduction technology is most directly responsible for this difference by eliminating redundant blocks of data across the entire cluster?

You receive an alert that a disk has failed on a node. According to Nutanix’s self-healing architecture, what happens automatically to the data that was on that failed drive?

A developer requests a copy of a production VM to use for testing. They need an isolated, point-in-time copy that won’t be affected by changes in production. Which Nutanix feature should you use to fulfill this request quickly and with minimal storage overhead?

You are explaining the Nutanix architecture to a new team member. They ask, ‘What is the fundamental software component that runs on each node, forming the distributed system that manages all storage operations and presents NFS and iSCSI to the hypervisor?’ Your correct answer is:

Your IT governance requires detailed reporting on VM resource consumption for chargeback. You need to track historical CPU, memory, and storage usage for all VMs across multiple clusters. Which Nutanix tool is specifically designed for this multi-cluster, historical reporting and capacity planning role?

You’re designing a new environment for a critical application that requires extremely low latency and high IOPS. The storage team wants to use all-flash nodes, but management is concerned about cost. Which Nutanix feature would allow you to create a storage pool that intelligently places the application’s hot data on flash while keeping colder data on more economical HDDs, all while presenting a single tier to the application?0