Discuss Nutanix NCP-EUC Exam Topic 1 Question 5

An administrator has been given a new support role for a group of 1000 users, which are all running Windows 10 Linked Clone virtual desktops,

The administrator learns quickly that the environment has been undersized with constant complaints from the user community around running out of storage. The administrator further discovers that the environment is memory constrained.

Which feature should the administrator enable to help relieve the capacity issue?

AAuto-tiering

BErasure Coding

CCompression

DDeduplication

Suggested Answer: D

Deduplication is a process that eliminates duplicate data blocks and reduces the amount of storage space required for virtual desktops. Deduplication can be enabled at both cluster level and container level on Nutanix.

Deduplication can also work with VCAI (View Composer Array Integration), which is a feature that uses Nutanix native NFS snapshot technology to clone VMs2. VCAI can improve performance and reduce storage consumption for linked-clone desktop pools.

Another feature that can help with capacity issue is Shadow Clones, which is a distributed caching mechanism that allows multiple VMs to read from a single vDisk copy stored locally on each node3. Shadow Clones can reduce network traffic and improve boot times for virtual desktops.

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13 comments · newest first

Lanie 11 months ago

Erasure coding is great for redundancy, but not for immediate capacity relief.

Roslyn 11 months ago

Wait, can auto-tiering really fix memory constraints? Sounds too good to be true.

Aide 11 months ago

Compression might help too, but not sure if it's enough.

Latrice 12 months ago

I think deduplication is the way to go for saving space.

Aleta 12 months ago

Auto-tiering can really help with storage issues!

Karan 1 year ago

I’m leaning towards deduplication since it can save a lot of space, but I need to double-check how it interacts with linked clones.

Kenda 1 year ago

I practiced a similar question on storage management, and I feel like auto-tiering could be a good option, but I’m not confident.

Chandra 1 year ago

I think compression might help with the storage issue, but I also recall that deduplication could be useful too.

Ulysses 1 year ago

I remember studying about storage optimization techniques, but I'm not entirely sure which one would be best for this scenario.

Ashanti 1 year ago

Hmm, I'm a bit unsure about this one. I was thinking maybe an increase in the number of false positives could indicate the IDS is working well, but I'm not totally confident in that.

Wava 1 year ago

I remember something about how the service provider just receives the SSO response, so it can't be that. But which one actually sends those credentials...?

Elvis 1 year ago

Hmm, this seems like a straightforward network security question. I'll think about the different components that could protect against unauthorized access to the remote network.

Micah 1 year ago

I'm a little confused by the wording of the question. Is a "factor market" the same as a "product market" where final goods and services are sold? I'll have to re-read the options closely to make sure I understand the distinction.

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