Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) — Question 27

In an AHV five-node cluster, an SSD fails within a node that has two SSDs and four HDDs installed.
What will happen to the cluster environment?

Answer options

• A. Host goes down and VMs will be powered on elsewhere.
• B. Cluster goes in read-only mode.
• C. VMs will be live migrated to other hosts until metadata rebuild is finished.
• D. CVM on the impacted node reboots.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

When an SSD fails in this scenario, the CVM on the impacted node reboots to handle the failure and maintain cluster integrity. The other options are incorrect because the host does not go down entirely, the cluster does not enter read-only mode, and live migration of VMs does not occur as a response to a single SSD failure.