Nutanix NCP-MCA Exam - Topic 4 Question 20 Discussion

Actual exam question for Nutanix's NCP-MCA exam

Question #: 20
Topic #: 4

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator created the Playbook shown in the exhibit to allow for manual reduction of vCPU count on any selected VM within their environment. During a test run of the play on one of the VMs running in development, the administrator ran into an error that the Playbook cannot be completed against the selected VM.

Here are the details of the affected VM:

VM Name: VM2

vCPU: 4

RAM: 8 GB

OS: Windows 2016

Hypervisor: AHV

What caused this Playbook to fail?

AThis play cannot be executed against a VM on AHV.

BThe VM needs to be powered off before vCPU can be reduced.

CReduction of vCPU cannot be done on a VM with a running snapshot.

DThe play will cause the VM to go below the minimum vCPU.

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Suggested Answer: C

by Raul at Jun 29, 2022, 05:14 AM

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Lenita

4 months ago

No way, it should work on AHV!

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Sol

4 months ago

Surprised this playbook doesn't handle that automatically.

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Charisse

4 months ago

Definitely a running snapshot issue!

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Pearly

4 months ago

I think it can't run on AHV, right?

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Sue

4 months ago

The VM needs to be powered off before vCPU can be reduced.

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Thurman

5 months ago

I recall that reducing vCPU below a certain threshold can cause issues, but I can't remember the exact minimum requirements for this setup.

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Tamekia

5 months ago

I'm not entirely sure, but I feel like AHV might have specific limitations that could prevent this play from running.

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Beula

5 months ago

I think I saw a question about snapshots affecting VM configurations in one of the practice exams. Maybe that's what's causing the failure?

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Mattie

5 months ago

I remember something about needing to power off the VM before making changes to the vCPU count. Could that be the issue here?

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Leigha

5 months ago

Okay, let's see. The Aspose license and file size limits seem straightforward. I'll focus on understanding the MIME type and Elasticsearch configuration details.

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Rusty

5 months ago

Hmm, this seems like a straightforward question about scaling EC2 instances during peak times. I think the key is to find the most operationally efficient solution.

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Sabrina

5 months ago

I'm a bit confused by the options here. I know WildFire is related to file analysis, but I'm not sure how the rate of submissions is configured. I'll have to review my notes on this topic.

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Kenneth

5 months ago

Hmm, I'm a bit unsure about this one. I'll need to think through the different options carefully to determine the best approach.

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