Nutanix Exam NCP-MCI Topic 6 Question 36 Discussion

High Availability (HA) in Nutanix provides priority-based VM restart capabilities to ensure that certain VMs are powered on before others in the event of a host reboot or failure.

Option C (High Availability) is correct:

Nutanix HA policies allow administrators to prioritize VM startup order to ensure that critical services (such as database VMs or management VMs) are available before others.

Option A (Recovery Plan) is incorrect:

Recovery Plans are used in Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios and do not control boot order during normal host restarts.

Option B (Host Affinity) is incorrect:

Host Affinity is used to keep a VM pinned to a specific host, but it does not control boot sequencing.

Option D (Agent VM) is incorrect:

Agent VMs (such as Witness VMs) are specialized virtual machines used for Metro Availability, not general boot priority settings.

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