An administrator has been evaluating a performance issue with the current Citrix VD' solution on Nutanix. During the evaluation, the administrator finds out there is a feature that is enabled called…

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Options

• ADeployment times would increase as the number deployed desktops increase,
• BDeployment times would decrease when deploying additional desktops.
• CBoot storms would be eliminated due to desktop resource contention.
• DBoot storms would be eliminated because the number of desktops would be throttled.

• A
  94% (30)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Shadow Clones is a Nutanix feature that creates local read-only copies (clones) of frequently accessed base disk images on each node. This dramatically accelerates read I/O during boot storms or large-scale desktop deployments by serving reads locally rather than traversing the network to a single source. When Shadow Clones is disabled, every node must retrieve data from the original source location across the storage network. As more desktops are deployed, contention for that single source increases linearly, causing deployment times to grow progressively longer. It does not eliminate boot storms; it alleviates the I/O pressure that causes them. Therefore, disabling it makes deployment times worse as scale increases - Answer A.

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