Intro

Question 1

SAN

Answer 1

Storage Area Network

Question 2

3 layer architecture

Answer 2

Servers, Switches (Network), SAN

Question 3

Challenges of 3 tier

Answer 3

1. Complexity
2. HW Depreciation
3. Upgrades
4. Storage Bottlenecks
5. Sizing & Growth
6. Resilient but not Self Healing

Question 4

HCI

Answer 4

Integration of storage layer into the compute layer

Question 5

Nutanix HCI

Answer 5

1. Comodity Hardware
2. Shared Nothing Architecture
3. 100% Software defined
4. Hypervisor Agnostic
5. API Driven and Rich analytics

Question 6

Suported Hypervisors

Answer 6

1. ESXi
2. AHV
3. ZenServer
4. Hyper-V

Question 7

Nutanix No9de

Answer 7

1. Hardware: SSD Drives
2. Hypervisor
3. UVM
4. CVM

Question 8

CVM

Answer 8

1. VM that contains the Nutanix Software
2. Blakcbox appliance
3. Storage controller for the node

Question 9

Role of the CVM

Answer 9

1. Clusters all nodes together
2. Stargate: Data IO Manager
3. Cassandra: Metadata store
4. Prism: user Interface
5. Cerebro: replication & DR
6. Zookeeper: Config management
7. Curator: map reduce framework

Question 10

Characteristics of CVM

Answer 10

1. User mode VM
2. Only one CVM per node
3. Updated independently of HV
4. Other CVMs take over if one fails

Question 11

Block

Answer 11

chassis that contains 1-4 nodes