NCP-US Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage (NCP-US) v6 exam Questions and Answers

Nutanix Files is a file storage service that supports SMB and NFS protocols. Access Based Enumeration (ABE) is a Windows feature that filters the list of available files and folders on the file server to include only those that the requesting user can access. Nutanix Files also supports replication to a DR site using Async DR.

According to Nutanix Support & Insights1, “When you create a lifecycle policy for a bucket, you can choose whether to apply it only to new objects that are added after creating the policy or also apply it retroactively to existing objects.” Therefore, if this option is not selected, then existing data will not be moved by the tiering rule.

https://www.nutanix.com/blog/objects-33-improved-efficiency-and-time-to-value

This is because this bundle contains LCM file manager component that is required for LCM inventory to work in dark site mode.

• Download lcm_file_analytics_x.x.x.tar.gz bundle from Nutanix portal which contains File Analytics software binaries.
• Download lcm_file_manager_x.x.x.tar.gz bundle from Nutanix portal which contains LCM file manager component that handles file operations such as upload, download and delete.
• Transfer both bundles to a dark site web server that is accessible by LCM.
• Configure LCM settings in Prism Element to use dark site mode and specify the URL of the dark site web server.
• Perform LCM inventory which scans for available software bundles on the dark site web server.
• Upgrade File Analytics using LCM which downloads and installs File Analytics software binaries from lcm_file_analytics_x.x.x.tar.gz bundle.

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=File-Analytics-v3_2:File-Analytics-v3_2

LCM is a framework that automates software upgrades for various components of your Nutanix cluster. MSP is a service that provides authentication, authorization, auditing, and metering for Nutanix services such as Objects. Objects Manager is a web-based interface that allows you to manage your Objects clusters.

According to the Nutanix Support & Insights website1, capacity runway is an estimate of how long your cluster can support its current workload before running out of resources2. The exhibit shows that your cluster has a storage runway of only 1 month, which means you will run out of storage space soon. However, your CPU and memory runways are much longer (more than 2 years), which means you have plenty of CPU and memory resources available. Therefore, it might be possible to reduce the storage capacity requested by your workload or optimize your storage utilization to extend your storage runway. Alternatively, you could also increase the storage capacity for physical nodes or add new physical nodes to the configuration, but these options might be more costly and complex.

Connect with MPIO to the iSCSI Data Services IP. The iSCSI Data Services IP (DSIP) is a virtual IP address that provides load balancing and failover for iSCSI traffic across all CVMs in a cluster. The MPIO (Multi-Path I/O) option enables multiple paths for iSCSI traffic between Windows clients and Nutanix Volumes. The Cluster Virtual IP (CVIP) is used for management and communication between CVMs and should not be used for iSCSI traffic.

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2049-Nutanix-Volumes:BP-2049-Nutanix-Volumes

Audit Trails is a feature of Nutanix File Analytics that allows you to monitor file activities on your file servers. You can search for files by name or path and view audit details such as operation type, user name, IP address, timestamp and status. You can also filter by operations such as open or read to verify if key users have opened the document.

https://next.nutanix.com/community-blog-154/file-auditing-and-analytics-for-your-nutanix-files-enterprise-cloud-31950

• The administrator should avoid allocating over half the RAM on a host to a FSVM because the FSVM would cross NUMA node boundaries (option A).
• NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) is a memory architecture that divides the system memory into multiple regions that are assigned to different processors or cores.
• If a FSVM crosses NUMA node boundaries, it will have to access memory from different regions, which will result in higher latency and lower performance for file operations.
• To avoid this issue, the administrator should ensure that the FSVM memory allocation is within a single NUMA node boundary.