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8TB to 9TB ABC Corp currently has 50 VMs currently running in production and is interested in sizing a DR cluster. The RTO is 4 hours and the RPO is 2 hours . Each VM has 100GB of data, with a 5% daily change rate .for retention the customer wants to keep 2 weeks of snaps on the DR cluster. What is the minimum amount of storage capacity for the remote cluster to meet the customer's data retention 1. 6TB to 7TB 2. 8TB to 9TB 3. 10TB to 11TB 4. 14TB to 15TB: 480GB SSD & 1GBNIC A customer is asking for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application containing a 500GB database. The customer has a VSAN ReadyNode quote already and looking for a comparable Nutanix solution. They share the following specifications 3 hosts 2 x E5-2640v4 CPU 512GB RAM 1 x 480GB SSD 2 x 8TB HDD 2 x 1GB NIC Which two aspects of the requested configuration should cause concern and need for further discovery? (Choose two.) Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA) A customer is conceded that IT will not be able to take advantage of Nutanix's frequent feature releases due to the man hour requirements of maintaining compliance with industry regulatory controls. Which item should the SE discuss at the next customer visit with IT? 1. Data at Rest Encryption (Software) 2. Two-factor Authentication 3. Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA) 4. Factory-installed self-encryption drives (SED): Shadow Clones A customer is provisioning 1,000 linked clone desktops with View Composer for their call center. During a short period between shift changes,desktops must be rebooted. Which Nutanix feature will help to mitigate the desktop boot times? 1. Shadow Clones 2. Performance Tier De-duplication 3. Content Based Read Cache 4. View Acceleration Array Intergration": Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total) 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? 1. Intel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total) 2. Intel E5 2620v4 ( 8 cores each @ 2.1GHZ, 16 Cores total) 3. Intel E5 2643v4 ( 6 cores each @ 3.4GHZ, 12 Cores total) 4. Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total) What do you plan to evaluate? After a meeting with a new prospect to demo Nutanix for a Splunk opportunity, the prospect requests a POC. To qualify the need for a POC, which question should an SE ask the prospect first? 1. Are you considering other solutions? 2. What do you plan to evaluate? 3. Is this project budgeted? 4. Which version of Splunk are you running? Review workload sizing details & Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration An SE builds a sizer scenario for a prospect's remote site running on an NX-1365S-G5. Using only the sizer BOM. which two actions can be performed? (Choose two.) 1. Review budgetary pricing 2. Review workload sizing details 3. Review power consumption requirements 4. Review applicable discounts from deal registration 5. Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration Self-Encrypting Drives & Nutanix Software Encryption" An SE is building a solution for a federal goverment prospect that u??? Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meens the ??? encryption (choose two) 1. Nutanix Acropolis Pro Licensing 2. Self-Encrypting Drives 3. A supported Key Management Server 4. Nutanix Software Encryption 3080 An SE is working with a financial institution prospect on a VDI environment refresh. The institution currently has 5000 named VDI users, with a peak of 2800 concurrent users. How many VDI VMs does the SE need to size for, factoring in an additional 10% for growth? 1. 2880 2. 3080 3. 5000 4. 5500 Use the latest copy of VMs on external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME Public Cloud denies customers access to vCenter or ESXi hosts But they do replicate a copy of the virtual disks to external storage. Which method should the customer use to migrate the VMs to a local Nutanix Cluster? 1. Use Xtract for VMs to migrate VMs from ACME Public Cloud vCenter to local Nutanix cluster. 2. Deploy Nutanix Community Edition in ACME Public Cloud and replicate VMs to local Nutanix cluster. 3. Use Calm to automate and orchestrate deployment on the local Nutanix cluster. 4. Use the latest copy of VMs on external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster Pulse A prospect discloses they have had multiple instances of unplanned downtime in the last 3 months due to server hardware failures. The team has been through multiple reorganizations in support of a struggling cloud migration project. As a result, cummunication whithin the team has suffered and some notifications from their SNMP based monitoring solution have been ignored. Which Nutanix feature should the SE highlight? 1. Pulse 2. Insights 3. Prism 4. Watchtower Nutanix AHV & Nutanix Calm A prospect facing an upcoming Vmware ELA renewal has a management directive to move to the public cloud due to perceived cost savings. Their virtualization team is currently struggling with refactoring applications for AWS. As a result, the virtualization team is pushing to evaluate VXRail and renew their VMware ELA. Which two aspects of Nutanix shoud the SE Highlight? (Choose two) 1. Nutanix AHV 2. Cloud Connect 3. Nutanix Calm 4. Multi-cluster Management 5. Multi-hypervisor Support What are the retention requirements? & How much data needs to be replicated? & What is the WAN speed and latency between source and target sites? A prospect indicates a requirement to replicate data offsite for a production workload. Which three questions the SE ask about the prospect's requirement? (Choose three.) 1. What are the retention requirements? 2. How much data needs to be replicated? 3. What OS will be deployed on the server VMs? 4. What is the WAN speed and latency between source and target sites? 5. Will Prism Pro be licensed for each cluster? Reference Architecture A prospect is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration. Which type of document should the SE provide? 1. Best Practice Guide 2. Reference Architecture 3. Filed Advisory 4. Knowledge Base Article TSAnet & Nutanix Software Only HCL A prospect is evaluating HEP SimpliVity and Nutanix Software-Only on HPE servers and receives FUD from the competition regarding HPE not supporting or officially partnering with Nutanix. which two items should be leveraged to overcome concern about product supportability? (Choose two) 1. TSAnet 2. SimpliVity competitive briefing 3. NX appliances 4. Nutanix Sizer BOM 5. Nutanix Software Only HCL Calm A prospect is evaluating Nutanix for a large number of Oracle RAC deployments. Time to deployment is a top priority, and the prospect has developed a self-service tool in-house to expedite these deployments. Which Nutanix feature should be discussed? 1. Calm 2. Xtract for Databases 3. ABS 4. REST API Data Locality & Erasure Coding A prospect is experiencing disk performance issues in their database environment. The prospect's databases currently run on physical servers and an iSCSI SAN with spinning disks. Which two Nutanix features should an SE discuss with this prospect to address their disk performance issues? (Choose two) 1. Snapshots 2. Data Locality 3. De-duplication 4. Erasure Coding 5. All Flash Nodes Nutanix community Edition A prospect is interested in evaluating Nutanix at no cost for a few months, but wants to useexisting test hardware to deploy a few VMs. Their primary interest is in experiencing platform management and not application or benchmark performance. Which approach should an SE recommend? 1. Nutanix NX POC 2. Nutanix community Edition 3. Nutanix Go 4. Nutanix Test Drive Acropolis Block Services (ABS) A prospect is replacing a 3-tier virtualization infrastructure made up of several ESXi hosts and a SAN. The prospect recently bought a new 4-socket server to host their SQL server workload which uses the same SAN. Which feature allows the prospect to continue using their new server without buying another SAN? 1. Heterogeneous clusters 2. Acropolis Block Services (ABS) 3. Virtual Fiber Channel Controller 4. Acropolis Container Services(ACS)": 5 A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event hardware issues. what is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster? 1. 4 2. 5 3. 6 4. 7 Calm & Prism 1-Click operations A prospective customer wants to build a private cloud in addition to provisioning workloads across multiple public cloud providers. Presently, the staff lacks the time and skillset for on-premises infrastructure management. Which two features should qualify this project as a Nutanix opportunity? (choose two) 1. Flow 2. Calm 3. Cloud Connect 4. All falsh nodes 5. Prism 1-Click operations Multi-site management & Pay as you grow A prospect needs to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect's core datacenter is only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have 25 satelite offices. Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VMs locally. Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE hlight to address the prospects concerns? (Choose two) 1. Multi-site management 2. Pay as you grow 3. Automated data storage tiering 4. Software only 5. Single node backup Option C A prospect provides sizing details for a new application that will require 15TiB of usable storage. The prospect needs to plan for an additional 20% storage growth as part of the initial purchase. Including capacity to fully re-protect in the event of a node failure, which configuration provides minimal cost while meeting the capacity requirement? 1. Option A 2. Option B 3. Option C 4. Option D SX is limited to two 4-node clusters & SX licensing will not support many-to-many cluster replication A prospect's business is growing 100% year over year. The prospect is interested in Nutanix for their main datacenter due to the alility to scale quickly and easily. They have three remote sites that will be refreshed within the next year. Each site needs to replicate to their many datacenter. The SE proposes the Nutanix NX line,and the prospect asks to utilize the Xpress line. For which reason is the Xpress line the wrong choice? (Choose two) 1. SX is limited to two 4-node clusters. 2. SX has a lower services cost for installation. 3. SX is limited to one 4-node cluster. 4. SX licensing does not support cluster-to-cluster replication 5. SX licensing will not support many-to-many- cluster replication Data Locality A prospect's existing SAN-based environment regularly experiences unpredictable storage performance and latency spikes during peak utilization. The most highly affected workload is general server virtualization. Which Nutanix feature addresses this pain point? 1. AHV-Turbo Mode 2. Data Locality 3. Shadow Clones 4. Persistent OpLog Acropolis Block Services A prospect's storage administrator is concerned about deploying Nutanix for their vSphere server virtualization environment due to anticipated increases to data retention for compliance purposes and associated costs. Which Nutanix feature shoud an SE discuss to convince the prospect to move forward? 1. Linear scalability by adding more nodes 2. acropolis Block Services 3. Adding Storage Only nodes 4. Extending storage container with existing SAN storage 24-hour windows during any period A prospect that is currently virtualized using Dell servers is willing to provide a Live Optics report to assist with sizing a partial infrastructure refresh with Nutanix. Which two items from an approach for sampling accurate sizing data with Live Optics? (Choose one) 1. 24-hour windows during a period of peak utilization 2. 12-hour windows during any period 3. 24-hour windows during any period 4. 12-hour windows during a period of peak utilization ABS A prospect uses Vmware, Oracle, and Microsoft products for a critical application. The prospect prefers an all flash array because they have significantly invested in servers for their Oracle enviroment to save on licensing costs. which feature should be discussed to address this objection? 1. AHV 2. Hyper-V support 3. ABS 4. All flash nodes Have you rewied additional features Nutanix like Calm or Beam yet? A customer has successfully deployed Citrix XenDesktop on Nutanix, They value the product but view Nutanix as a VDI appliance. The customer mentions a cloud initiative. Which open-ended discovery question should the SE ask to start a conversation about expanding beyond VDI workloads? 1. Does your company use Microsoft Exchange? 2. Are you using Time Stream for the VDI workloads? 3. What is your process for evaluating new methodologies and technologies? 4. Have you reviewed additional features Nutanix like Calm or Beam yet? Share database related Nutanix case studies with the customer. Customer requests a 30-day POC to test Microsoft SQL Server performance on Nutanix compared to existing infrastructure. Which action should be taken to avoid the POC? 1. Recommend the customer install Nuatnix Community Edition. 2. Offer a 10% discount if the customer issues an order without a POC. 3. Share database related Nutanix case studies with the customer. 4. Recommend X-ray to facilitate performance testing and use the Xtract tool to minimize the migration. Beam A customer who uses Nutanix for mission critical workloads is considering migrating public cloud workloads to Nutanix. The customer has experienced difficulty auditing where applications reside and understanding cloud costs on a per application basis. Which Nutanix product should be discussed to address the customer's needs? 1. Xi 2. Beam 3. Calm 4. Prism Pro Garther magic Quadrant During a meeting with a fortune 100 prospect, an SE achieves technical buy-in from the architecture team. The prospect shares that their management recently attended an executive briefing with Cisco and was impressed by the vision presented. Management is pushing the arching the architecture tea to adopt Cisco as their HCI standard based on a beief that Nutanix is not a major player. Which resource should an SE highlight? 1. Garther magic Quadrant 2. ESG Performance Analysis 3. Net Promoter Score 4. Reference architectures Data locality During a meetin with a prospect a storage administrator comments that they're currently using 16Gb Fibre Channel for their SAN and believes that 10Gb Ethernet can't provide adequate bandwidth or low latency. As a followup to the meeting, which Nutanix Bible section would be most helpful in overcoming the storage administrator's objection? 1. Data locality 2. Storage Tiering and Prioritization 3. Cluster Components 4. Drive Breakdown 5. Do you have any infrastructure refreshes planned for this year? Identity appropriate POC hardware & A test plan with agreed upon success criteria During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect and SE agree to evaluate Nutanix and a computing platform using XRay. The prospect is currently using 3-tier architecture and considering Nutanix and HPE Simplivity. Which two details must be discussed with the prospect before the POC starts? (Choose two) 1. Model of Fibre Channel switch 2. Gather details of customer's existing 3-tier hardware 3. ldentify appropriate POC hardware 4. A test plan with agreed upon success criteria 5. What type of external storage will be connected Defined and measurable success criteria During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect asks to do a POC so they can experience Nutanix in their environment. What is the most important item the SE must have in place with the prospect before moving forward with a POC? 1. Start date of the POC 2. Defined and measurable success criteria 3. Meeting frequency 4. Number of Nodes/Block to be used during the POC View Cases From Which page on can an open case be directly escalated? 1. Home 2. View Cases 3. 360 View 4. Case Detail Expand the cluster by adding an additional node. & Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack In a competitive POC scenario, the prospect is testing Nutanix against VxRail and Hyperflex. The customer is interested in an ""All in One"" solution that's simple to deploy, manage, and grow. Which two test plan items should the SE map to POC success criteria? (Choose two) 1. Deploy HCIbench to determine maximum IOPS. 2. Deploy Calm to automate application deployment. 3. Expand the cluster by adding an additional node. 4. Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack. 5. Enable all data efficiency settings. When deploying an Oracle RAC database In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled? 1. when deploying Horizon View virtual desktops 2. when deploying Splunk 3. when deploying an Oracle RAC database 4. when deploying Citrix virtual desktops ABS Oracle HCL for Certified Joint Support with Nutanix has Oracle Linux and Oracle VM via iSCSI listed. What Nutanix feature is used by this certified configuration? 1. OSS 2. AFS 3. ACS 4. ABS Data Locality & Auomatic Data Tiering A prospect is evaluating solutions to support a project. The SE proposes a hybrid model as recommended by size in addition to nutanix, the prospect is evaluating an all flash storage array. The storage administrator is concerned about the performance the hybrid configuration and claims that the flash array is less expensive the it Director sees the benefits of Nutanix but needs to address the team's concerns. Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concems of the storage administrator? (Choose two) 1. Data Locality 2. NVMe support 3. 40Gb/s support 4. Capacity Planner 5. Automatic Data Tiering System availability issues & Slow response time from the infrastructure group (SLA's) that could result in product release delays prospective customer explains their current infrastructure and upcoming goals. They are a fast-growing software company with approximately 3000 employees. Engineering accounts for approximately half of total staff and is behind on product releases. This department has been building their own infrastructure using available hardware, SaaS offerings, and public cloud. There's a new CIO attempting to gain control of existing and incoming information systems while supporting the agile environment responsible for their rapid innovation with a minimal staff. From this information, which two addressable pain points or gaps should be discerned?(Choose two) 1. System availability issues 2. SQL Server performance issues 3. ""Shadow IT"" that increases the risk of security breaches and brand damage 4. Slow response time from the infrastructure group (SLAs) that could resulf in product release delays 5. significantly degraded end user experience 3TB A prospect provides the following details for sizing active working set based on their existing server virtualization environment: Full backup reports: January: 10TB February: 11TB March: 12TB April: 13TB May: 14TB Average Read/Write Ratio - 75/25 When entering a Raw Input in Sizer, what should the SE use as the minimum amount of required SSD Storage? 1. 1.5TB 2. 3TB 3. 4.5TB 4. 6TB 4:1 Refer to the exhibit. A prospect provides the data shown captured from their existing environment using RVTools. The prospect has additional historical CPU utilization data that indicates peak CPU utilization never exceeds 50% on either physical host. Which vCPU:pCore ratio should be used in Sizer? 1. 2:1 2. 3:1 3. 4:1 4. 5:1 vInfo Refer to the exhibit. Assuming a prospect is currently using Thick Provisioned virtual disk, at a minimum, which two tabs should be evaluated in an RVTools report to determine required resources for sizing? (Choose two.) 1. vInfo 2. vNetwork 3. vPartition 4. vCluster 5. vDisk N+2 Refer to the exhibit Based on the sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration? 1. FTT1 2. N+0 3. N+1 4. N+2 N+0 Refer to the exhibit. Based on the Sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration? 1. RF3 2. N+1 3. N+0 4. N+2 B & D Refer to the exhibit. In Sizer, in which two ways can an SE accommodate a specific number of physical host-based software licenses that a customer has available for a project? (Choose two) 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. E 6. F 6x NX-3060-G6 (6x 1920GB SSDs per node) & 3x NX-3060-G5 (2x 1920GB SSD per node) + 3x NX-3055G (4x960GB SSD per node) Refer to the exhibit. Using the Sizing Options shown, which two configurations are valid when using Sizer in Automatic mode?(Choose two.) 1. 6x NX-3060-G6 (6x 1920GB SSDs per node) CONTINUED...