Nutanix NCSE-Core Practice Questions

An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix Cluster. The application is very transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio. What should the administrator do?

A. Add one large SSD to each node and enable Flash Mode for the VMs.

B. Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM and aggregate them on guest OS level.

C. Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all write go to the SSDs.

D. Add one large virtual disk to each VM and use it for all application data.

A prospect is planning to refresh hundreds of remote locations. Each location has the following configuration:
• 2x HPE DL360 servers running vSphere, each using its own local storage
• 3-4 Windows VMs with no plans to expand
Scheduling the initial meeting to discuss the opportunity has been challenging as the prospect believes a Nutanix solution would be overpriced for their remote site needs.
What are two Nutanix capabilities the SE should highlight to address solution cost concerns? (Choose two.)

A. 1 -Node and 2-Node Clusters

B. Xi DRaaS

C. Foundation

D. AHV

An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issue. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue. Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

A. Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs

B. Add additional disks to the Volume Group

C. Set the SCSI timeout value to 60

D. Utilize Jumbo Frames

A customer has a 3-node cluster configured for RF2 with 100TB of raw disk space. The customer wants to enable Erasure Coding to gain additional usable space. What change will allow EC-X to be enabled?

A. Add 1 node to the cluster

B. Add an additional 30TB to the existing cluster

C. Increase the size of the default storage pool

D. No changes are required

Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums, software downloads, product documentation product alerts and support interactions?

A. my.nutanix.com

B. nutanixbible.com

C. support.nutanix.com

D. portal.nutanix.com

A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server database to Nutanix Currently the databases is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE recommend for this workload?

A. Intel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total)

B. Intel E5 2620v4 ( 8 cores each @ 2.1GHZ, 16 Cores total)

C. Intel E5 2643v4 ( 6 cores each @ 3.4GHZ, 12 Cores total)

D. Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total)