Nutanix Exam NCP-MCA Topic 12 Question 78 Discussion

Actual exam question for Nutanix's NCP-MCA exam

Question #: 78
Topic #: 12

A developer is building a Blueprint that deploys a Redhat Enterprint Linux VM on vSphere. During the testing of the Blueprint to prepare it for users, it is discovered that the App deployment fails with the error.

What is the cause of this errors?

AvCenter Server cannot be reached.

BOpen-vm-tools is not installed or not started.

CThe rhel7 template is unavailable for the VM deployment.

DCloud-init is not correctly formatted.

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Suggested Answer: B

The error message indicates that customization of the guest operating system is not supported. This issue often arises because open-vm-tools is not installed or not running on the Redhat Enterprise Linux VM. open-vm-tools is necessary for vSphere to perform guest customization tasks, such as setting the hostname, IP configuration, and other initialization tasks.

Nutanix documentation on Guest Customization Requirements.

VMware documentation on Installing Open VM Tools.

by Kathrine at Jun 14, 2025, 11:08 PM

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Tammi

14 days ago

Hmm, my money's on the missing open-vm-tools. Gotta have those installed for the VM to work properly.

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Pamella

16 days ago

The issue is definitely with the cloud-init configuration. I've seen this error before when the formatting was off.

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