[Q18-Q34] Updated Sep-2026 Exam Engine or PDF for the Nutanix NCM-MCI-6.10 test to help you quickly prepare for the Nutanix exam!

Q18. An administrator is experiencing an unidentified issue which is causing inode exhaustion on CVMs in Cluster
1. The time between receiving alerts and exhaustion is too short; the administrator needs to lower the alert thresholds to allow more time to clean up inodes until the issue has been identified and resolution implemented.
From Prism Element, modify the appropriate alert policy setting critical threshold for Cluster 1 to 60% and warning threshold to 45%. Ensure the check runs every minute and is not resolved without administrator action.

Q19. Due to new security requirements, an administrator has been tasked with updating the security settings for user accounts within Prism Element on Cluster 1.
An SSL Certificate Signing Request with Subject Alternative Name should be generated for submission to the security team’s Certificate Authority with the following details:
countryName = US
stateOrProvinceName = North Carolina
localityName = Durham
organizationName = ACME
organizationalUnitName = Infrastructure
commonName = prism_element.ACME.org
emailAddress = [email protected]
Alternate names = cvm1.ACME.org, cvm2.ACME.org, cvm3.ACME.org
Encryption: RSA 2048, sha256
When the Certificate Signing Request is generated, place a copy of both the .cnf file and the .csr file on the desktop named ‘prism_element_acme.cnf’ and ‘prism_element_acme.csr’ Save a copy of the command(s) used for this scenario to a new file on the desktop named “Task 5.txt”.
Note: You must copy and paste the command(s) and output from SSH to the “Task 5.txt” file to achieve all points available.

Q20. The DB team is requesting an SQL database instance and has requested it be configured for best performance.
This VM has been migrated from a 3 tier solution into Nutanix.
The database VM hosts 4 databases, each set to a 20 GB limit. Logs are expected to not grow beyond 20 GB and should be limited to within 25% to avoid runaway processes. Do not configure more storage than is needed.
The VM that has been migrated is identified as sql3532. Once the VM has been properly reconfigured, the DBA team will reconfigure the OS and database.
The VM should be configured as per KB-3532.
While this VM is being tested, make sure it is the first VM to power up in the event the node it is on goes down.
To maximize performance, ensure as much of the VM as possible will be kept on SSD drives.
Note: The VM does not need to be powered on. The VM should remain on the default container and should not be configured with a volume group. No network is required at this time.

Q21. Create a VM template on Cluster 1 named Small Template that matches the small VM Configuration in NVD-2031 (see the FilesDocumentation 6.10 folder) however, you will use default storage container.
Configure SMTP Alerting and NCC reports per NVD-2031 for Cluster 1.
Settings:
* SMTP: Use Cluster 2 IP address
* Cluster email: [email protected]
* Alert emails: [email protected], [email protected]

Q22. Task 3
An administrator needs to create a report named VMs_Power_State that lists the VMs in the cluster and their basic details including the power state for the last month.
No other entities should be included in the report.
The report should run monthly and should send an email to [email protected] when it runs.
Generate an instance of the report named VMs_Power_State as a CSV and save the zip file as DesktopFilesVMs_Power_state.zip Note: Make sure the report and zip file are named correctly. The SMTP server will not be configured.

Q23. An administrator needs to configure a new write-intensive MS-SQL VM on Cluster 1.
VM specifications:
* vCPU: 12
* vRAM: 128GB
* Storage: 100 GB OS, 750 GB Data
Create the VM and any objects needed in the current environment to meet requirements, maximizing performance for the production environment. Include NEWSQL in the name of any new objects.
Production environment:
* 4 nodes
* Each node has two 8-core CPUs
* Each node has 1024 GB RAM
* Storage: 4 × 7.16 TB SSD Disks and 8 × 8 TB HDD disks
Make sure the VM is configured for maximum performance for the production environment.
Note: Network configuration is not required at this time. Do not power on the VM.

Q24. Task 4
An administrator has requested the commands needed to configure traffic segmentation on an unconfigured node. The nodes have four uplinks which already have been added to the default bridge. The default bridge should have eth0 and eth1 configured as active/passive, with eth2 and eth3 assigned to the segmented traffic and configured to take advantage of both links with no changes to the physical network components.
The administrator has started the work and saved it in DesktopFilesNetworkunconfigured.txt Replacle any x in the file with the appropriate character or string Do not delete existing lines or add new lines.
Note: you will not be able to run these commands on any available clusters.
Unconfigured.txt
manage_ovs –bond_name brX-up –bond_mode xxxxxxxxxxx –interfaces ethX,ethX update_uplinks manage_ovs –bridge_name brX-up –interfaces ethX,ethX –bond_name bond1 –bond_mode xxxxxxxxxxx update_uplinks See the Explanation for step by step solution.

Q25. Your security team is working on automation to manage Security Policies.
They have exported some of the existing rules to the file “Security Policy.txt” located on the desktop. This file needs to be modified for the test environment.
* All rules except the quarantine rule should be logged.
* Only the Quarantine rule should be enforced, the other rules will only be logged.
* The quarantine rule should affect the SecOps environment.
* The SMB rule should only affect VMs with the “smbhost” and “smbclient” tags.
* The “DN test” policy should allow ipv6 and should not restrict any protocols between the included tiers.
There are three rules in the file, do not delete, add or copy lines. Only replace xxxx with the correct value as appropriate. It is possible that not all “xxxxx” will be replaced.
Save the file with the same name.
Possible values to replace the “xxxxx”:
8080
ALL
APPLY
false
MONITOR
Non-Prod
SecOps
smbhost
smbclient
TCP
True

Q26. The Database team is reporting performance degradation for a business-critical application on Saturdays.
The team is requesting monitoring of processor, memory and storage utilization for the cluster for the application: SQL01, SQL02.
The report should contain views for the following:
* At the cluster level, only for the Cluster 1: The maximum percentage of CPU used
* At the VM level, including any future VM with the prefix SQL: The maximum time taken, maximum percentage of time a VM waits to use the physical CPU, out of the total CPU The report should run on Sundays at 12:00 AM for the previous 7 days. The report should show when completed.
Create a report named SQL_Batch_Saturday that meets these requirements.
Generate an instance of the report named SQL_Batch_Saturday as a CSV and save the file.
Note: You must name the report SQL_Batch_Saturday to receive any credit. Any other name will not be accepted. SMTP is not configured.

Q27. A company who offers Infrastructure as a Service needs to onboard a new customer. The new customer requires a dedicated cloud plan which tolerates two host failures.
The customer is planning to move current workloads in three waves, with three months between waves starting today:
* Wave One: 100 VMs
* Wave Two: 50 VMs
* Wave Three: 20 VMs
Workload profile is:
* vCPU: 4
* vRAM: 16 GB
* Storage: 200 GB
The service provider company needs to estimate required resources upfront, to accommodate customer requirements, considering also that:
* limit the number of total nodes
* selected system vendor HPE
* selected model DX365-10-G11-NVMe
* full-flash node (including NVMe + SSD)
* 12 months runway
Create and save the scenario as IaaS and export to the desktop, name the file IaaS-requirement.pdf Note: You must export the PDF to the desktop as IaaS-requirement.pdf to receive any credit.

Q28. Task 1
An administrator needs to configure storage for a Citrix-based Virtual Desktop infrastructure.
Two VDI pools will be created
Non-persistent pool names MCS_Pool for tasks users using MCS Microsoft Windows 10 virtual Delivery Agents (VDAs) Persistent pool named Persist_Pool with full-clone Microsoft Windows 10 VDAs for power users
20 GiB capacity must be guaranteed at the storage container level for all power user VDAs The power user container should not be able to use more than 100 GiB Storage capacity should be optimized for each desktop pool.
Configure the storage to meet these requirements. Any new object created should include the name of the pool (s) (MCS and/or Persist) that will use the object.
Do not include the pool name if the object will not be used by that pool.
Any additional licenses required by the solution will be added later.

Q29. Task 15
Depending on the order you perform the exam items, the access information and credentials could change.
Please refer to the other item performed on Cluster B if you have problems accessing the cluster.
The infosec team has requested that audit logs for API Requests and replication capabilities be enabled for all clusters for the top 4 severity levels and pushed to their syslog system using highest reliability possible. They have requested no other logs to be included.
Syslog configuration:
Syslog Name: Corp_syslog
Syslop IP: 34.69.43.123
Port: 514
Ensure the cluster is configured to meet these requirements.

Q30. Task 8
An administrator has environment that will soon be upgraded to 6.5. In the meantime, they need to implement log and apply a security policy named Staging_Production, such that not VM in the Staging Environment can communicate with any VM in the production Environment, Configure the environment to satisfy this requirement.
Note: All other configurations not indicated must be left at their default values.