Refer to the exhibit. An administrator has created a new Windows VM and given it to the user. The user states that only the C drive mapping is visible within the Windows OS. What is causing this…

Question

Exhibit

Options

• AThe user has not formatted and assigned drive letters to the additional disks.
• BThe additional disks have not been formatted as ExFAT in Prism Central.
• CThe administrator has not run the dd command line community utility.
• DThe additional disks were formatted as NTFS in Prism Central.

• A
  95% (21)
• C
  5% (1)

Explanation

When additional virtual disks are attached to a Windows VM through Nutanix (via Prism), Windows recognizes them as raw, uninitialized disks. They will not appear as drive letters (e.g., D:, E:) in File Explorer until a user or administrator opens Disk Management (or uses diskpart), initializes each disk, creates a volume/partition, formats it (typically NTFS), and assigns a drive letter.

• Option B is incorrect: disk formatting is done inside the guest OS, not in Prism Central. Prism only manages the virtual disk at the hypervisor/storage layer.
• Option C is incorrect: dd is a Linux utility and is not applicable to adding disks to a Windows VM.
• Option D is incorrect: Prism does not format disks as NTFS; disk formatting is always a guest OS operation.

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