NCP-MCI-6.10 · Question #109
What can be used to easily group a set of VMs?
The correct answer is D. Tags. Tags in Nutanix Prism Central are the lightweight mechanism for grouping and organizing VMs by applying arbitrary key-value labels. They allow flexible VM grouping without affecting placement, resources, or project boundaries.
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What can be used to easily group a set of VMs?
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- ACatalog Items
- BLabels
- CProjects
- DTags
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(48 responses)- A2% (1)
- B6% (3)
- C4% (2)
- D88% (42)
Why each option
Tags in Nutanix Prism Central are the lightweight mechanism for grouping and organizing VMs by applying arbitrary key-value labels. They allow flexible VM grouping without affecting placement, resources, or project boundaries.
Catalog Items are reusable service or application definitions used in Self-Service Portal provisioning, not a VM grouping mechanism.
Labels in Prism Central are typically used for affinity and anti-affinity scheduling constraints, not for broadly grouping VMs.
Projects are multi-tenancy and quota boundaries for self-service workloads, not a simple VM grouping tool.
Tags are key-value metadata attributes that can be applied to VMs in Prism Central to create logical groupings independent of cluster, project, or resource boundaries. They enable administrators to filter, search, and apply policies across sets of VMs that share a common attribute, making them the correct tool for simply grouping VMs together.
Concept tested: Nutanix Prism Central VM tagging for grouping
Source: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide:mul-tags-vm-t.html
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