A prospective customer wants to migrate database workloads to Nutanix. They are currently running these workloads on a 3 tier Sphere architecture made up of 5 hosts connected to a hybrid SAN over 10G iSCSi. The hosts each have 256G RAM and 2 Broadwell 28 Ghz 12 core processors. The largest database VM is configured with 646 of memory. Some databases are fairly old and single threaded Current performance is deemed acceptable.
Which configuration component is most important to maintain the customer experience on a new Nutanix cluster and minimize costs?

• A.Make sure the duster uses 512G per host to protect NUMA boundaries.
• B.Make sure the cluster uses 25G nics to speed up the network!
• C.Make sure the duster uses similar speed processors regardless of generation
• D.Make sure the cluster is all flash to speed up data access

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A Prospective customer asks about failure handling. They have heard all HCI is the same and want to know what happens if 2 nodes fail within 1 hour of each other.
If these is capacity in the cluster. how will this failure scenario be handled?

• A.Every block of data is written to every node in a Nutanor cluster.
• B.The Nutanix RAID array will leverage the hot spare.
• C.Nutanix begins rebuilds immediately on a failure.
• D.Nutanix waits 60 minutes to recover from failures: data loss may occur.

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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)

• A.Nutanix AHV
• B.Cloud Connect
• C.Nutanix Calm
• D.Multi-cluster Management

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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?

• A.Nutanix community Edition
• B.Nutanix NX POC
• C.Nutanix Go
• D.Nutanix Test Drive

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A customer is evaluating Nutanix to replace their existing 200TB filer. The filer is used to store archived images. To achieve maximum storage density. RF2 and Erasure Coding are proposed. What is the minimum number of nodes required to support the maximum Erasure Coding stripe size of 4/1 (data/parity)?

• A.7 Nodes
• B.5 Nodes
• C.4 Nodes
• D.6 Nodes

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