NCA-5.15 · Question #26
An administrator should use which Nutanix component to to create in-guest clustering?
The correct answer is B. Volumes. Nutanix Volumes (formerly known as Acropolis Block Services or ABS) exposes iSCSI block storage from the Nutanix cluster to external clients or to VMs as raw block devices. This is the foundation for in-guest clustering solutions such as Windows Server Failover Clustering…
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An administrator should use which Nutanix component to to create in-guest clustering?
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- AStorage Pools
- BVolumes
- CBlocks
- DContainers
How the community answered
(20 responses)- A10% (2)
- B85% (17)
- D5% (1)
Explanation
Nutanix Volumes (formerly known as Acropolis Block Services or ABS) exposes iSCSI block storage from the Nutanix cluster to external clients or to VMs as raw block devices. This is the foundation for in-guest clustering solutions such as Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) or Oracle RAC, where multiple VMs or hosts need simultaneous access to shared block storage and manage their own clustering at the OS/application layer. Storage Pools (A) and Containers (D) are storage constructs within the Nutanix distributed file system (NDFS) used for VM disk storage, not for external block access. Blocks (C) refers to physical hardware nodes, not a software feature.
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