What are two impacts on the cluster?

An administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins. The administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 will reduce the login times. Production workloads are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU count on all of the VDI VMs.

What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two.)

A. Increase CPU utilization%

B. Increase CPU ready%

C. Increase memory utilization%

D. Increasing CPU counts will decrease memory utilization

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Answer: AB

Explanation:

Increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 can indeed reduce login times by providing more processing power to handle the login requests. However, this action will have two main impacts on the cluster:

A. Increase CPU utilization%: By increasing the number of vCPUs, you are effectively increasing the

demand for CPU resources. This will result in a higher percentage of the CPU being utilized.

B. Increase CPU ready%: CPU Ready is a measure of the amount of time a virtual machine is ready to run against the pCPU, but is waiting to be scheduled on the physical CPU. By increasing the number of vCPUs, you are increasing the number of virtual machines that are ready to run, which can increase the CPU Ready percentage.

Increasing the vCPU count does not directly affect memory utilization, so options C and D are not correct.

Reference: The conclusions above are based on general virtualization principles covered in resources like the Nutanix Bible (https://www.nutanixbible.com/) and the Nutanix University training materials for NCS-Core certification (https://university.nutanix.com/). These sources explain the impact of CPU allocation and utilization in detail, particularly in the context of cluster performance and virtual desktop infrastructure.

Additionally, practical insights into these dynamics are discussed in various video tutorials from the

Nutanix official YouTube playlist for NCS-Core learning

(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAHgaS9IrJecs_AcQT3Y7vSsKT2mjz3Iu), which provide

visual and step-by-step breakdowns of how CPU resources are managed in a Nutanix environment.