Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) — Question 31

The customer is seeing high memory utilization on a mission critical VM. Users report that the application is unavailable. The guest OS does not support hot add components.
How should the administrator fix this issue?

Answer options

• A. Go to Control Panel in the VM: ✑ Select the Computer Properties ✑ Increase the amount of RAM assigned
• B. From the Prism web console: ✑ Go to the VM dashboard ✑ Select the VM from the VMs list ✑ Choose Update ✑ Adjust the amount of memory assigned to the VM
• C. During the next maintenance window: ✑ Select the VM from the VMs list ✑ Perform a graceful shutdown ✑ Choose Update ✑ Increase the amount of memory assigned to the VM
• D. Access the CVM on the host that is running the VM: ✑ Open acli ✑ Run a command to increase the amount of RAM assigned to the VM

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because it involves a graceful shutdown during a maintenance window, which is necessary when the guest OS does not support hot add. Options A and B are incorrect as they do not involve a graceful shutdown, and option D requires command-line access, which is not ideal for a critical VM experiencing issues.