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NCA-5.15 · Question #6

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Status of some components has been reduced to 0. making it impossible to support a node failure in the cluster. What failed…

The correct answer is A. CVM. A Controller VM (CVM) failure is the component failure that reduces Data Resiliency Status to 0 for the affected components. Each AHV node's CVM handles all storage I/O for that node and participates in the cluster's distributed storage fabric. When a CVM goes down, the cluster…

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Question

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Status of some components has been reduced to 0. making it impossible to support a node failure in the cluster. What failed component caused this issue?

Exhibit

NCA-5.15 question #6 exhibit

Options

  • ACVM
  • BDisk
  • CNode
  • DBlock

How the community answered

(25 responses)
  • A
    72% (18)
  • B
    8% (2)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    16% (4)

Explanation

A Controller VM (CVM) failure is the component failure that reduces Data Resiliency Status to 0 for the affected components. Each AHV node's CVM handles all storage I/O for that node and participates in the cluster's distributed storage fabric. When a CVM goes down, the cluster loses a storage controller, and Nutanix's resiliency calculations reflect that it can no longer guarantee tolerating an additional node failure without data unavailability-dropping the resiliency factor to 0. A disk failure (B) typically reduces resiliency by one unit but does not immediately drop it to 0 in a healthy cluster. A node (C) or block (D) failure would also impact resiliency but the exhibit's pattern points to a CVM as the root cause.

Topics

#Data Resiliency#CVM Failure#Troubleshooting#Cluster Health

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