3A - Manage Cloud Administration

Question 1

You are the chief technology officer (CTO) of a national mutual life insurance company. At the most recent executive meeting, the board decided to transform the employee work environment from traditional bare-metal desktops with the occasional remote desktop (RDP) connection, into a full remote office, branch office (ROBO). The ROBO utilizes a virtual desktop interface (VDI) as a persistent multi-user deployment, allowing each user to access the same virtual desktop consistently with single sign-on (SSO) authentication to work remotely. All this is according to a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy.

Rather than subscribe to desktop as a service (DaaS) products offered by some cloud service providers, the board decided that the company will implement an in-house private cloud solution for the VDI. This is so the company can control costs through direct intervention without involving a third party. The board also wants to retain the ability to move towards a more flexible hybrid cloud solution in the near future to augment the new private cloud.

For these reasons, the company will purchase hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) servers (as opposed to software-defined storage or SDS) to function as hypervisor nodes. This will be in the form of a 4-node Nutanix NX block appliance in a 2U chassis. Utilizing HCI hardware will prevent siloing (also called isolation) and simplify the use of features, such as data-at-rest encryption, backup, and disaster recovery. It will also facilitate reduced operating expenses, ROI improvement, and rapid deployment of the new private cloud.

Your task is to deploy virtualized clusters using the Nutanix Foundation tool. Specifically, you will configure user settings for the VDI interface (including security and performance options), configure Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and hypervisor settings, and controller virtual machines (VMs).

Question 2

Base your decisions on the following requirements:
The users are already familiar with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V.
GPUs will not be required.
Must be Energy Star compliant.
Configure Hypervisor Boot volume with a fast RAID that uses striping.
Configure Storage volume with a high-reliability RAID that will protect data even if a drive is lost.
Typical power consumption should not exceed 1600W
PCIE NICS are required.
There must be enough CPU cores per socket to allow for 4 vCPUs to be allocated to 4 VMs simultaneously.
A minimum of 20 TB of storage is required. Anything over 100 TB is too much.
RAM must not be less than 512 GB. Anything over 1 TB is overkill.
Future Hybrid integration solution will most likely be in the form of seamlessly integrated Nutanix HCI stacks running directly on AWS EC2 bare metal instances, providing elasticity and sporadic burst ability with freshly spun public cloud clusters on an as-needed basis.
Save money where possible.
Dimensions must fit within the

following space:
Height: 3.5” (88 mm)
Width: 17.8” (449 mm)
Depth: 31” (764.75 mm)
Depth: 31” (764.75 mm)

Question 3

SPECIFICATION

Answer 3

NX-1065-G7
Max memory 512GB
Storage Type SSD
Max CPU Cores per Socket 16
Max Storage Capacity 31.68TB

Question 4

Specify a RAID level for storage volume

Answer 4

1,
5,
or 10

Question 5

Specify a RAID level for hypervisor boot volume

Answer 5

0

Question 6

Specify a hypervisor

Answer 6

Hyper-V

Question 7

Specify an operating system (OS) for virtual desktops

Answer 7

Windows Server 2019

Question 8

Select the type of IP address required by the contoller virtual machines (VMs)

Answer 8

Static

Question 9

Install server role(s) required for VDI deployment through the chosen hypervisor

Answer 9

Remote Desktop Gateway
Remote Desktop Web Access
Remote Desktop Licensing
Remote Desktop Session Host
Remote Desktop Virtualization Host
Remote Desktop Connection Broker