Nutanix Certified Master – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) — Question 8

An administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the following;
✑ VMs are experiencing very high latency
✑ Each node is equipped with a single SSD, utilized at 95%
✑ Each node is equipped with three HDDs, utilized at 40%
Why are the guest VMs experiencing high latency?

Answer options

• A. CVMs are overwhelmed by disk balancing operations.
• B. All VM write operations are going to HDD.
• C. All VM read operations are coming from HDD.
• D. VMs are unable to perform write operations

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because the high utilization of SSDs at 95% likely leads to CVMs being overwhelmed with disk balancing operations, which can cause latency. Options B and C are incorrect because they do not account for the impact of high SSD utilization and disk balancing, and option D is wrong since it suggests that write operations are entirely blocked, which is not implied by the provided information.