Nutanix Updated NCA-6.5 Exam Questions and Answers by zayaan

Nutanix supports high availability (HA) for VMs by automatically restarting them on other nodes in the cluster in case of a node failure. The cluster CPU and memory utilization will increase temporarily until the failed node is recovered, but there will be no user impact. References: https://www.nutanix.com/content/dam/nutanix/resources/misc/ebg-nca-6-5.pdf (page 28)

In Nutanix, all the network uplink ports are connected, but only two of them are carrying traffic at any given time. This is done to provide redundancy and failover in case one of the ports fails. The two ports that are carrying traffic are chosen based on the link aggregation policy configured. The link aggregation policy can be configured to use either Active-Active or Active-Backup mode. In Active-Active mode, both ports are active and carrying traffic, while in Active-Backup mode, only one port is active and carrying traffic, the other port is on standby. Reference: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details? targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v5_11:wc-network-configuring-uplink-ports_wc-network-configuring-uplink-ports.html

When updating the LCM Framework on a dark site web server, the LCM Framework Bundle should be extracted to the "release" directory. This directory is specifically designated for holding the updated LCM Framework files, and the update process will look for the files in this location. Extracting the bundle to a different directory, such as "upgrade", "software" or "install" would not be sufficient as the LCM Framework update process may not be able to find the files. Reference: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=LCM-Guide-v2_11:lc-updating-the-lcm-framework_lc-updating-the-lcm-framework.html