NCA-5.15 · Question #58
An administrator has a physical server that provides Actr/e Directory service?. IT has been hesitant to virtualize it due to its mission critical nature. What can the administrator do to ensure that A
The correct answer is A. Mark the VM as an Agent VM.. In Nutanix AHV, marking a VM as an Agent VM grants it elevated startup priority. When a host boots (or after a failure event), Agent VMs are powered on before all other user VMs. This ensures that critical infrastructure services like Active Directory are available as quickly as
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An administrator has a physical server that provides Actr/e Directory service?. IT has been hesitant to virtualize it due to its mission critical nature. What can the administrator do to ensure that Active Directory experiences the least downtime when hosted on Nutanix?
Options
- AMark the VM as an Agent VM.
- BConfigure Runbook to power on the VM first.
- CTurn off IPAM for the VM's VLAN.
- DTurn off Live Migration for the VM.
How the community answered
(30 responses)- A77% (23)
- B7% (2)
- C13% (4)
- D3% (1)
Explanation
In Nutanix AHV, marking a VM as an Agent VM grants it elevated startup priority. When a host boots (or after a failure event), Agent VMs are powered on before all other user VMs. This ensures that critical infrastructure services like Active Directory are available as quickly as possible, minimizing the window during which dependent workloads cannot authenticate. This is the recommended approach to reduce downtime for mission-critical VMs. Configuring a Runbook (B) is a Leap DR feature. Disabling IPAM (C) or Live Migration (D) would not reduce downtime and could actually worsen availability.
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