Section 1 - Terms

Question 1

utilizes MapReduce tiering technology to insure data is intelligently places in the optimal storage tier (SSD or HDD) for the fastest performance

Answer 1

Storage Tiers

Question 2

a logical segmentation of the storage pool and contains a group of VMs and files (vDisks). These are usually mapped to hosts as shared storage in the form of a NFS Share or a SMB Share.

Answer 2

Containers

Question 3

A of physical storage devices, including SSD and HDD drives, for the cluster. Can span multiple Nutanix nodes and is expanded as the cluster scales.

Answer 3

Storage Pools

Question 4

a group of Nutanix nodes that form a distributed platform. This platform is presented to the hypervisors like any other central storage array, however all I/O’s are handled locally for performance.

Answer 4

Distributed Storage Fabric

Question 5

1. Storage Pools
2. Containers
3. vDisks

Answer 5

Nutanix Data Structure

Question 6

Nutanix Cluster component that is the data I/O manger for the cluster.

Answer 6

Stargate

Question 7

Nutanix Cluster component that is the access interface for Cassandra.

Answer 7

Medusa

Question 8

Nutanix Cluster component that is the distributed metadata store.

Answer 8

Cassandra

Question 9

Nutanix Cluster component that handles MapReduce cluster mgmt & clean up.

Answer 9

Curator

Question 10

Nutanix Cluster component that manages cluster configuration.

Answer 10

Zookeeper

Question 11

Nutanix Cluster component that is the access interface for Zookeeper.

Answer 11

Zeus

Question 12

Prism

Answer 12

Central Mgmt Interface

Question 13

Solid-State Drives are considered?

Answer 13

Metadata Drive

Question 14

A subset of storage on SSD drives that is distributed to other SSD drives on cluster nodes

Answer 14

OPLOG

Question 15

NX platform for Branch office.

• 4-nodes per block
• Single or Dual CPU & 6-16 cores
• 1 SSD (1.2 TB) & 2 HHD (6 TB)
• 64 - 512 GB of Memory

Answer 15

NX-1065S and NX-1065G

Question 16

NX platform that is compute intensive

• 4-node per block
• Dual CPU 16-24 cores
• 2 SSD (1.6 TB) & 4 HHD (2 TB)
• 128 - 512 GB of Memory

Answer 16

NX-3060-G4

Question 17

NX platform that is compute intensive

• 1-node per block
• Dual CPU 20-36 cores
• 2 SSD (1.6 TB) & 2 HHD (6 TB)
• 192 - 768 GB of Memory

Answer 17

NX-3175-G4

Question 18

NX platform that is data intensive

• 2-node per block
• Single CPU 6 cores
• 1 SSD (400 GB) & 5 HHD (6 TB)
• 32 GB of Memory

Answer 18

NX-6035C

Question 19

NX platform that is data intensive

• 2-node per block
• Dual CPU 12-16 cores
• 1 SSD (1.6 TB) & 5 HHD (6 TB)
• 64 - 512 GB of Memory

Answer 19

NX-6035-G4

Question 20

NX platform that is graphics intensive (VDI

• 1-node per block
• Dual CPU 20 cores
• 2 SSD (400 GB) & 6 HHD (1 TB)
• 256 GB of Memory

Answer 20

NX-7110

Question 21

NX platform that is business critical APPs

• 1/2-node per block
• Dual CPU 16-24 cores
• 2 SSD (1.6 TB) & 4 HHD (2 TB)
• 128 - 512 GB of Memory

Answer 21

NX-8000

Question 22

NX platform that is all-flash

• 4-node per block
• Dual CPU 12-24 cores
• 6 SSD (1.6 TB)
• 128 - 512 GB of Memory

Answer 22

NX-9060-G4

Question 23

Each node has a virtual machine which has a purpose of enables pooling of local storage from all nodes within a cluster

Answer 23

Nutanix Controller VM