NCP-EUC · Question #56
A company is using Citrix for virtual desktops on Nutanix with AHV. The studio has 10,000 users who will be connecting to this infrastructure and have deployed a dedicated Files cluster for holding…
The correct answer is D. Leave the CVM RAM at 32GB and increase the FSVM RAM to 96GB. On a dedicated Nutanix Files cluster, the Controller VM (CVM) handles storage I/O for the hypervisor layer and does not serve VDI workloads directly, so its default 32GB RAM is sufficient. The File Server VMs (FSVMs), however, are responsible for all SMB/NFS file serving for up…
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A company is using Citrix for virtual desktops on Nutanix with AHV. The studio has 10,000 users who will be connecting to this infrastructure and have deployed a dedicated Files cluster for holding the user home shares. Since this is a dedicated cluster with dual Intel 6242 28 GHz 16 Core processors and 192GB of RAM, what should be done for the FSVM and CVM configuration to allow for optimal performance?
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- AIncrease the CVM vCPUs to 16 and the FSW vCPUs to .
- BIncrease the CVM RAM to 64GB and the FSVM RAM to 96GB.
- CLeave the CVM vCPUs et 12 and increase the FSVM vCPUs to 8,
- DLeave the CVM RAM at 32GB and increase the FSVM RAM to 96GB.
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(25 responses)- A8% (2)
- B4% (1)
- C4% (1)
- D84% (21)
Explanation
On a dedicated Nutanix Files cluster, the Controller VM (CVM) handles storage I/O for the hypervisor layer and does not serve VDI workloads directly, so its default 32GB RAM is sufficient. The File Server VMs (FSVMs), however, are responsible for all SMB/NFS file serving for up to 10,000 users' home shares. With dual 16-core Intel 6242 processors and 192GB of total RAM available, increasing the FSVM RAM to 96GB directly improves metadata caching, file handle throughput, and concurrent session handling - the bottleneck for a high-density user home share workload. Increasing CVM RAM or vCPUs beyond defaults on a dedicated Files cluster yields no meaningful benefit and wastes resources.
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