NCP-EUC · Question #18
A company has deployed Horizon on a Nutanix cluster running the ESXi hypervisor. They are starting the configuration for the deployment of 1000 virtual desktops running Windows 10 in a Linked Clone…
The correct answer is C. View Composer API for Array Integration. The View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI) (C) enables Nutanix to offload linked clone operations directly to the storage layer. Instead of vSphere handling clone I/O through the hypervisor, Nutanix performs native copy-on-write clone operations at the distributed…
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A company has deployed Horizon on a Nutanix cluster running the ESXi hypervisor. They are starting the configuration for the deployment of 1000 virtual desktops running Windows 10 in a Linked Clone Desktop Pool. The company has these requirements:
- Reduced time for initial virtual desktop deployment
- Fast recompose time when updating the pool with patches and new
application installs
- Provide a high level of availability to the pool
What should the company enable, that will allow this Nutanix VDI implementation to meet the stated requirements?
Options
- AVM disk space reclamation
- BView Storage Accelerator
- CView Composer API for Array Integration
- DSeparate datastores for replicas and clones
How the community answered
(40 responses)- A3% (1)
- B13% (5)
- C78% (31)
- D8% (3)
Explanation
The View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI) (C) enables Nutanix to offload linked clone operations directly to the storage layer. Instead of vSphere handling clone I/O through the hypervisor, Nutanix performs native copy-on-write clone operations at the distributed storage level. This dramatically reduces initial deployment time, accelerates recompose operations (patching/updates), and improves availability by distributing the workload efficiently across the cluster. View Storage Accelerator (B) improves read performance via host-based caching but does not accelerate deployment or recompose. Separate datastores (D) help with I/O separation but don't provide the same level of optimization. VM disk space reclamation (A) recovers unused storage but does not address deployment speed or availability.
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