A developer requests that a VM connects to a block device from an older ISCSI disk array, in order to support an application being transitioned to Nutanix. What should the Nutanix administrator do…

Question

Options

• AUse Flits to map a network drive letter.
• BAdd the VM to the whitelist to allow it to access the block device.
• CUse Volumes to add the device as a drive letter.
• DAdd the array to the whitelist to access the storage container directly.

• B
  11% (2)
• C
  84% (16)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

Nutanix Volumes (formerly Acropolis Block Services) presents iSCSI block storage to guest VMs and external hosts. To provide the VM access to iSCSI block storage during the application transition, the administrator should use Nutanix Volumes to create and present an iSCSI volume group to the VM, which the guest OS will recognize and mount as a block device (drive letter). Whitelisting in Nutanix Volumes controls which initiator IQNs (clients) can access a volume group, but the core task of exposing block storage to the VM is done through the Volumes feature itself. FLITS (A) is not a standard Nutanix feature name, and directly whitelisting an external array (D) does not give the VM access.

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