Objective 1.1 8 cards
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Which hypervisors can NCI run on?
AHV (included) and VMware ESXi. Check the Supported Hypervisors page for your AOS release.
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What runs on every Nutanix node to serve storage?
The Controller VM (CVM). It owns the node's disks and runs Stargate, Cassandra, Curator, Zookeeper and Prism.
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Which CVM service handles data I/O?
Stargate.
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Which CVM service stores cluster metadata?
Cassandra.
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Which IP can you use to reach Prism Element directly?
The IP of any CVM in the cluster (or the cluster virtual IP).
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What is the Distributed Storage Fabric?
AOS's scale-out storage layer. It pools every node's local disks into shared storage.
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What happens when Stargate/Cassandra keep failing on one node?
The cluster redirects that node's I/O path to another CVM (autopathing). The VMs keep running.
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Minimum nodes for RF3 / FT2?
5 nodes.