A financial services company is using Nutanix Calm to automate the deployment of a three-tier application. For compliance, all secrets, such as database passwords and API keys, must be managed by an external HashiCorp Vault server. The blueprint needs to retrieve these secrets at launch time without storing them within the blueprint itself. Which Calm construct should the administrator configure to achieve this securely?
An administrator is troubleshooting a failed X-Play playbook that was triggered by a VM CPU alert. The playbook is designed to snapshot the VM, run a diagnostic script, and then send a Slack notification. The playbook execution log shows that the 'VM Snapshot' action succeeded, but the 'VM Powershell' action failed with an 'Authentication Error'. The Slack notification was never sent. What is the most likely cause of this failure?
A DevOps team wants to automate two distinct processes: 1. **Incident Response:** When a critical VM alert is generated, a process must be triggered to collect logs from multiple VMs, create a ticket in ServiceNow, and notify the on-call engineer. 2. **Application Update:** A developer needs to execute a multi-step process to update a configuration file on a web server, restart the application service, and run a health check against a specific URL. Which Nutanix automation constructs are best suited for these two requirements? (Select TWO).
An administrator has created a multi-tier application blueprint in Calm that consists of a web server array and a database server. The web servers must be fully configured and running before the database server begins its setup process, as the database installation script needs to register itself with the running web servers. How should the administrator enforce this specific deployment order in the blueprint?
True or False: Once a blueprint is published to the Calm Marketplace, it can be directly edited by an administrator to apply updates, which are then automatically reflected for all users.
A university uses Nutanix Calm to provide self-service virtual labs for students. To control costs, each student project is assigned a resource quota. A student reports that their blueprint launch is failing with a quota exceeded error, but they claim to have deleted several old applications to free up resources. An administrator needs to verify the student's resource consumption against the project's quota. Which section of the Prism Central interface provides the most direct way to validate this information?
An administrator wants to create a Calm blueprint that deploys a variable number of identical web servers based on user input at launch time. For example, a user might request 3 servers for a development environment but 10 servers for a performance testing environment. What feature should be used within the blueprint service to achieve this dynamic scaling?
A Case Study for a retail company is presented below. **Company Background:** RetailNow is a large e-commerce company that experiences massive traffic spikes during holiday seasons. Their primary application runs on a multi-tier architecture deployed on a Nutanix AHV cluster. The infrastructure team uses Nutanix Calm for application lifecycle management and X-Play for operational automation. **Current Situation:** During the last major sale, the web tier of the application became unresponsive due to overwhelming traffic. The operations team had to manually scale out the web servers, which took over 30 minutes, resulting in significant revenue loss. The current process involves an operator receiving a CPU utilization alert, connecting to Prism Central, and manually cloning new web VMs from a template. **Requirements:** The CTO has mandated a fully automated solution to scale the web tier. The solution must meet the following criteria: 1. Automatically trigger when the average CPU utilization across the web tier VMs exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. 2. Add exactly one new web server VM to the existing Calm-managed application. 3. The new VM must be identical to the existing web servers. 4. The entire process from alert to new VM being online should take less than 5 minutes. **Proposed Solution:** An automation engineer proposes creating an X-Play playbook. The playbook will be triggered by the CPU alert. It will then execute a 'PowerShell' action that connects to Prism Central and runs a script to clone a web server VM. Which statement best evaluates the proposed solution against the requirements?
A consultant has set up a development project and a production project in Nutanix Calm. A blueprint has been fully tested in the development project and published to the Marketplace. The goal is to make this blueprint available for launch in the production project. Which two steps must be performed to make the blueprint visible and launchable from the production project's Marketplace? (Select TWO).
During a blueprint launch, a 'Package Install' task for a CentOS VM fails. The administrator reviews the task's output log and finds the following error message: `Error: Unable to find a match: httpd-2.4.6-97.el7.centos.x86_64` `yum install -y httpd` `Exited with error: 1` What is the most probable cause of this failure?