Nutanix Exam NCP-MCI-6.10 Topic 4 Question 5 Discussion

Actual exam question for Nutanix's NCP-MCI-6.10 exam

Question #: 5
Topic #: 4

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 Central remains connected to the recovery site.

What are two expected system behaviors? (Choose two.)

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 site is restored.

CGuest VMs failover automatically to the recovery cluster.

DGuest VMs continue to run on the primary cluster.

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Suggested Answer: A, C

When connectivity between Metro clusters is lost, Nutanix Metro Availability ensures data integrity using Witness for automatic failover.

Option A (Guest VM I/O operations pause until connectivity is restored) is correct:

Metro Availability enforces data consistency, so I/O operations pause until failover is confirmed.

Option C (Guest VMs failover automatically to the recovery cluster) is correct:

The Witness VM detects the failure and initiates an automatic failover to the secondary cluster.

Option B is incorrect:

Prism Central does not control VM failover in Metro Availability.

Option D is incorrect:

The primary cluster is unreachable, so VMs cannot continue running there.

Nutanix Metro Availability Guide How Witness Handles Failover Scenarios

Nutanix KB I/O Freezing and Failover Behavior in Metro Clusters

by Thora at Mar 20, 2025, 10:21 AM

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