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A financial services company is deploying a new 5-node Nutanix cluster for a critical OLTP database application. The compliance department mandates that the system must tolerate the simultaneous failure of any two nodes without data loss or unavailability. Which configuration must be applied to the storage container housing the database files?

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A systems administrator is reviewing the Prism Element dashboard and observes a critical alert indicating that a CVM is down. The cluster is configured with RF2. What is the immediate impact on the VMs that were running on the affected host?

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During a routine health check, an administrator finds that the Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) has reported a PASS WITH WARNINGS status. What is the recommended next step?

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An IT team is preparing to perform a one-click AOS upgrade using the Life Cycle Manager (LCM). Which TWO actions are automatically performed by LCM as part of the pre-upgrade checks? (Select TWO)

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A new administrator is tasked with creating a virtual machine for a test/dev environment. The VM requires 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, and a 100 GB disk. The administrator navigates to the VM creation wizard in Prism Element. Where would the administrator specify the storage container for the VM's disk?

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True or False: In a Nutanix cluster running AHV, all virtual machine network traffic must be tagged with a VLAN ID.

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A hospital's IT department is using Nutanix Files to store medical imaging data. The data is accessed frequently when new, but access frequency drops significantly after 90 days. They need a solution to reduce storage costs for this aging data without deleting it. Which Nutanix product or feature is designed for this use case?

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An administrator is investigating a performance issue reported by an application owner. They suspect storage contention. Which chart in the Prism Element Analysis dashboard is the most effective tool for correlating VM performance with cluster-wide storage activity?

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A consultant needs to determine which features are available on a customer's Nutanix cluster. Without logging into the Nutanix Support Portal, where in Prism Element can this information be found?

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An organization wants to save storage space on a container that hosts a large number of linked-clone VDI desktops. Which storage optimization feature would provide the most significant benefit for this specific workload? graph TD subgraph VDI_Container VM1_Base[Base vDisk] VM1_Delta[Delta Disk] VM2_Base[Base vDisk] VM2_Delta[Delta Disk] VM3_Base[Base vDisk] VM3_Delta[Delta Disk] end Template[Golden Image] --> VM1_Base Template --> VM2_Base Template --> VM3_Base

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