An administrator wants to ensure that a particular VM starts before any other VM in the environment after performing maintenance. How can the administrator achieve this?

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Options

• AMarie the VM as a High Priority VM in Prism Central
• BMark the VM for Host Affinity in Prism Element
• CMark the VM as an Agent VM in Prism Element
• DMark the VM as a High Priority VM in Prism Element

• A
  73% (24)
• B
  6% (2)
• D
  21% (7)

Explanation

Two mechanisms in Nutanix control VM startup priority:

• Agent VM in Prism Element (C): Marking a VM as an Agent VM instructs the AHV hypervisor to start that VM before any other user VMs during cluster or host startup sequences. This is the primary mechanism for ensuring a VM boots first at the hypervisor level.
• High Priority VM in Prism Central (A): In Prism Central, marking a VM as High Priority influences the HA restart order and overall scheduling priority, ensuring it receives preferential treatment during recovery or startup.

Using both together provides the strongest guarantee that the VM starts before others - Agent VM handles the host-level boot order, while High Priority handles the cluster-wide HA/scheduling priority.

• Host Affinity in Prism Element (B) controls where a VM runs, not when it starts.
• High Priority VM in Prism Element (D) is a distractor - this specific designation is configured in Prism Central, not Prism Element.

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