Which ports must remain open to support replication between two Prism Element clusters?

An administrator is tasked with ensuring the VMs do not experience downtime during an upcoming network maintenance on the primary cluster. The VMs are protected by a Protection Policy and are configured under a Recovery Plan. What failover mechanism should the administrator use to ensure the VMs are available on the target cluster before the maintenance window?

A company ' s two clusters are part of the same availability zone. Prism Central, which holds the protection policy configuration and recovery plans, is located on Cluster A and protected by the Prism Central Backup and Restore mechanism. What is the first step to take to execute a disaster recovery plan on the datacenter hosting Cluster A?

An administrator migrates a guest VM from a legacy Protection Domain–based DR configuration to a Prism Central (PC)–based Protection Policy. Immediately after migration, the administrator considers deleting the legacy Protection Domain snapshots to reclaim storage. According to Nutanix guidance, when is it safe to delete the legacy Protection Domain snapshots?

A Nutanix protection policy is configured with:

RPO: 1 hour,

Retention period: 5 days,

Retention type: Roll-up.

After six days of continuous operation, approximately how many hourly recovery points will still be available for restores for the most recent 24-hour period?

An organization is implementing a Disaster Recovery solution to protect critical workloads by failing them over to a NC2-on-Azure cluster. The administrator needs to ensure that when VMs failover to Azure, their IP addresses are predictable and consistent with the application requirements. Which configuration strategy should the administrator use in the Recovery Plan to achieve predictable IP assignment?

A Protection Domain exists with a VM, but no new snapshots are being created and replication never starts. Which is the most likely DR setup issue?

Two AHV clusters are 4 ms RTT apart. The business requires:

0 RPO

Automatic failover

No application performance degradation

Hybrid HCI nodes with 100 TB capacity

What storage configuration must be validated before enabling synchronous replication?

An administrator has received the following alert:

Replication was skipped for protection domain < Protection Domain Name > of the latest snapshot < Snapshot ID > to remote site < Remote Cluster Name > . Replication was skipped as a newer Recovery Point was available snapshots that may have been skipped.

The administrator begins gathering troubleshooting information and determines the following:

The VM has been replicating to this cluster successfully for at least 6 months

The bandwidth has been sufficient to this point and hasn ' t caused an issue before

Network connectivity is good and all necessary ports remain open and reachable

There aren ' t hardware issues, and software is up to date

What else could have caused this alert?

An organization uses a Recovery Plan to protect a SQL Cluster that relies on Volume Groups (VGs). The VGs are configured with hypervisor attachments. The administrator executes a Planned Failover to migrate the SQL Cluster to the Recovery Site. The Failover task completes successfully, but the database administrators report that the database is offline. What is the possible cause of this issue?

An administrator executes an Unplanned Failover of web server VMs from an on-premises AZ to a Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) on AWS. The Recovery Plan completes, and the VMs are running. However, external users cannot access the websites hosted on these VMs. The administrator verifies that the firewall rules are set correctly. What specific configuration is required for these VMs to be reachable from the external network after failover to NC2?

A security team has detected a ransomware attack that began encrypting files on the primary site at 2:00 AM. By 2:45 AM, the primary site is still accessible but workloads are compromised. The administrator needs to recover to a known-good state from before the attack.

Which statement shows the action and reasoning that the administrator should consider?

An administrator is testing the failover scenarios from a source availability zone (AZ1) to a destination availability zone (AZ2). The administrator successfully performs an unplanned failover from AZ1 to AZ2. The administrator then immediately tries to use the unplanned failover option to fail the VM back to AZ1, but does not see the VM listed under Recovery Plan. What could be the cause?

What snapshot recovery point interval does Self-Service Restore support in a Nearsync setup?

A solution architect designs a protection policy in Prism Central to protect a specific set of VMs. The design calls for synchronous replication to two separate availability zones (AZs) simultaneously to ensure zero data loss at multiple physical locations. Which configuration limitation prevents the implementation of this specific design?

A VM is configured with a 5-minute Nearsync RPO. After several hours, replication transitions back to hourly RPO. Alerts indicate the minute schedule cannot be maintained. What is the most likely root cause?

A financial institution is designing a disaster recovery solution for a business-critical application that requires a zero recovery point objective (RPO). The infrastructure team decides to implement Nutanix Metro Availability between two physical data centers (DC-Alpha and DC-Beta) interconnected by a dedicated dark fiber. What is the maximum possible network latency on this link for this configuration to function correctly?

What must be installed on a guest VM prior to enabling Self-Service Restore?

An organization requires strict control over data destruction. An administrator configures an Approval Policy for DR snapshots to prevent accidental deletion. A user attempts to delete a recovery point protected by this policy. What is the immediate outcome of this deletion attempt within the Prism Central interface?

What must the maximum Round Trip Latency be less than between a Witness VM and Metro Availability PDs?

An administrator at a retail company is preparing to apply a critical OS security patch to a production SQL Server VM. Before starting, the administrator ensures the VM is part of a Protection Domain and manually creates a local snapshot (Recovery Point). Ten minutes after the patch is applied, the SQL service fails to start, and the database logs indicate corruption in the system registry. The administrator needs to return the VM to its functional state from ten minutes ago as quickly as possible. The administrator decides to perform a Restore from the local snapshot. Under which condition would an In-place Restore (Revert) fail, forcing the administrator to use the Clone (Out-of-place) option instead?

An administrator managing critical VMs has been tasked with designing a Disaster Recovery solution where the VMs are brought up on the target cluster if the source cluster experience any issues. The failover needs to be triggered without any user intervention and with minimal downtime. What automatic failure execution solution is best suited?

An administrator has set up asynchronous replication between the Marseille and Paris clusters for the VMs in the FIN-PROD storage container. After a planned production failover from Paris to Marseille, the administrator noticed that the VMs were scattered across all the storage containers in the Marseille cluster. Which statement is true regarding this scenario?

After a storage failover in a synchronous replication environment, users report higher I/O latency and degraded performance compared to pre-failover levels. Cluster health is normal, and replication is functioning correctly. Which post-failover cleanup action could the administrator perform to correct the performance issue?

An administrator is planning a scheduled maintenance window that will temporarily interrupt network connectivity between the primary and recovery sites. Several Tier 1 VMs are protected with a Synchronous replication Protection Policy. What must the administrator do before beginning the maintenance window to prevent these VMs from becoming unresponsive without making RPO changes?

While attempting to execute a Commvault backup plan, an administrator received the following error for several VMs: " Virtual Machine not found " . After confirming the VMs exist, the administrator finds the following related error message: " Event Code 91:4 Virtual machine [Nutanix-Web-Server] was not found. Please verify that the virtual machine still exists and that the host is in the connected state. " Which action should the administrator take to enable successful backups?

A Protection Policy is configured with a Nearsync replication schedule (15-minute RPO). An administrator observes that the system has temporarily transitioned to an hourly replication schedule. Which scenario would cause this automatic transition from Nearsync to Asynchronous (hourly) replication?

An administrator is evaluating Nearsync for critical VMs in a Nutanix Disaster Recovery environment. What is the minimum RPO, in minutes, supported by Nearsync replication?

A Veeam backup job is configured to use Nutanix application-consistent snapshots for several Windows VMs. Crash-consistent snapshots succeed, but Veeam reports that application-consistent snapshots fail with errors related to VSS processing. Upon investigation, the administrator confirms:

The VMs are powered on.

Network connectivity between the backup server and cluster is healthy.

Which configuration should the administrator verify to resolve the issue?

During routine monitoring, an administrator notices that replication from the primary Nutanix cluster to the recovery cluster has stopped. New recovery points are not being created, and the DR dashboard shows replication errors. Investigation reveals:

The primary and recovery clusters are both online and healthy.

Network segmentation was recently enabled to isolate replication traffic from other workloads.

No recent changes were made to firewall rules, protection policies or RPO settings.

Which action should the administrator take first to investigate the replication failure?

An administrator intends to configure a NearSync replication schedule with a 15-minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) on a hybrid 3-node cluster. The current nodes in the cluster are configured with one SSD and four HDDs each. Which cost-effective modification is required to support this specific replication schedule?

An administrator needs to provide leadership with a report showing the timeframe of each step during Recovery Plan failover testing. How should the administrator produce this report?