An administrator has configured AHV Metro Availability with Witness and is testing failover scenarios. During testing, the administrator disconnects the primary and recovery clusters but Prism…

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Options

• AGuest VM I/O operations pause (freeze) until connectivity is restored.
• BGuest VM I/O operations pause (freeze) until connectivity between Prism Central and the primary
• CGuest VMs failover automatically to the recovery cluster.
• DGuest VMs continue to run on the primary cluster.

• A
  69% (34)
• B
  8% (4)
• D
  22% (11)

Explanation

In Nutanix AHV Metro Availability with Witness, when the inter-cluster link fails (split-brain), the Witness (or Prism Central acting in that role) determines which cluster wins quorum. Since Prism Central is connected to the recovery site and not the primary, the recovery cluster wins the quorum vote. The primary cluster loses quorum and must surrender its VMs - at that point, guest VM I/O on the primary pauses/freezes (A) as part of the controlled failover process. The Metro Availability engine then automatically brings those VMs up on the recovery cluster (C) without administrator intervention. Option B is incorrect because PC does not need to reconnect to the primary for the failover to complete. Option D is incorrect because the primary cluster, having lost quorum, will not continue running those VMs.

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