The Nutanix NCM-MCI exam, officially titled Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure v6.10, is part of the Nutanix Certified Master certification path. It is designed for professionals who want to validate advanced skills in multicloud infrastructure performance, optimization, and troubleshooting. Earning this certification demonstrates strong technical ability and readiness to manage complex Nutanix environments with confidence.
| # | Exam Topics | Sub-Topics | Approximate Weightage (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Analyze and Optimize Storage Performance |
Storage bottlenecks and latency analysis I/O pattern review and throughput tuning Capacity and performance impact assessment |
25% |
| 2 | Analyze and Optimize Network Performance |
Network latency and congestion analysis Traffic flow and connectivity troubleshooting Network tuning and performance validation |
20% |
| 3 | Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting |
Advanced system configuration review Root cause analysis for complex issues Troubleshooting workflows and validation |
25% |
| 4 | Analyze and Optimize VM Performance |
VM resource utilization analysis CPU and memory performance tuning Guest workload behavior assessment |
15% |
| 5 | Business Continuity |
Continuity planning and recovery concepts Availability and resilience validation Recovery workflow and failover considerations |
15% |
This exam tests more than memorization. Candidates must show practical knowledge of performance analysis, optimization methods, and troubleshooting in real Nutanix environments. It also checks the ability to work through complex infrastructure scenarios and apply the right technical decisions under pressure.
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The NCM-MCI exam is the Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure v6.10 certification exam. It validates advanced knowledge in multicloud infrastructure performance, optimization, and troubleshooting.
It is intended for experienced professionals who work with Nutanix environments and want to prove advanced mastery in storage, network, VM, and continuity-related operations.
Yes, it is an advanced-level exam. It focuses on practical analysis and troubleshooting, so candidates usually need solid hands-on understanding to perform well.
Braindumps alone are not the best approach. They can help with question familiarity, but you should also understand the concepts and use practice tests to strengthen real exam readiness.
Yes, hands-on experience is very helpful because the exam covers performance analysis, advanced troubleshooting, and optimization tasks that are easier to understand with real practice.
The Exam PDF helps you review actual questions and answers, while the Online Practice Test helps you simulate the exam and improve time management. Together, they support focused preparation for passing on the first attempt.
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Task 7
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.
To configure the environment to satisfy the requirement of implementing a security policy named Staging_Production, such that no VM in the Staging Environment can communicate with any VM in the production Environment, you need to do the following steps:
Log in to Prism Central and go to Network > Security Policies > Create Security Policy. Enter Staging_Production as the name of the security policy and select Cluster A as the cluster.
In the Scope section, select VMs as the entity type and add the VMs that belong to the Staging Environment and the Production Environment as the entities. You can use tags or categories to filter the VMs based on their environment.
In the Rules section, create a new rule with the following settings:
Direction: Bidirectional
Protocol: Any
Source: Staging Environment
Destination: Production Environment
Action: Deny
Save the security policy and apply it to the cluster.
This will create a security policy that will block any traffic between the VMs in the Staging Environment and the VMs in the Production Environment. You can verify that the security policy is working by trying to ping or access any VM in the Production Environment from any VM in the Staging Environment, or vice vers
a. You should not be able to do so.




Task 16
Running NCC on a cluster prior to an upgrade results in the following output
FAIL: CVM System Partition /home usage at 93% (greater than threshold, 90%)
Identify the CVM with the issue, remove the fil causing the storage bloat, and check the health again by running the individual disk usage health check only on the problematic CVM do not run NCC health check
Note: Make sure only the individual health check is executed from the affected node
To identify the CVM with the issue, remove the file causing the storage bloat, and check the health again, you can follow these steps:
Log in to Prism Central and click on Entities on the left menu.
Select Virtual Machines from the drop-down menu and find the NCC health check output file from the list. You can use the date and time information to locate the file. The file name should be something like ncc-output-YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS.log.
Open the file and look for the line that says FAIL: CVM System Partition /home usage at 93% (greater than threshold, 90%). Note down the IP address of the CVM that has this issue. It should be something like X.X.X.X.
Log in to the CVM using SSH or console with the username and password provided.
Run the commanddu -sh /home/*to see the disk usage of each file and directory under /home. Identify the file that is taking up most of the space. It could be a log file, a backup file, or a temporary file. Make sure it is not a system file or a configuration file that is needed by the CVM.
Run the commandrm -f /home/<filename>to remove the file causing the storage bloat. Replace <filename> with the actual name of the file.
Run the commandncc health_checks hardware_checks disk_checks disk_usage_check --cvm_list=X.X.X.Xto check the health again by running the individual disk usage health check only on the problematic CVM. Replace X.X.X.X with the IP address of the CVM that you noted down earlier.
Verify that the output shows PASS: CVM System Partition /home usage at XX% (less than threshold, 90%). This means that the issue has been resolved.
#access to CVM IP by Putty
allssh df -h #look for the path /dev/sdb3 and select the IP of the CVM
ssh CVM_IP
ls
cd software_downloads
ls
cd nos
ls -l -h
rm files_name
df -h
ncc health_checks hardware_checks disk_checks disk_usage_check
Task 12
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 admin@syberdyne.net when it runs.
Generate an instance of the report named VMs_Power_State as a CSV and save the zip file as Desktop\Files\VMs_Power_state.zip
Note: Make sure the report and zip file are named correctly. The SMTP server will not be configured.
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, you can follow these steps:
Log in to Prism Central and click on Entities on the left menu.
Select Virtual Machines from the drop-down menu and click on Create Report.
Enter VMs_Power_State as the report name and a description if required. Click Next.
Under the Custom Views section, select Data Table. Click Next.
Under the Entity Type option, select VM. Click Next.
Under the Custom Columns option, add the following variables: Name, Cluster Name, vCPUs, Memory, Power State. Click Next.
Under the Time Period option, select Last Month. Click Next.
Under the Report Settings option, select Monthly from the Schedule drop-down menu. Enter admin@syberdyne.net as the Email Recipient. Select CSV as the Report Output Format. Click Next.
Review the report details and click Finish.
To generate an instance of the report named VMs_Power_State as a CSV and save the zip file as Desktop\Files\VMs_Power_state.zip, you can follow these steps:
Log in to Prism Central and click on Operations on the left menu.
Select Reports from the drop-down menu and find the VMs_Power_State report from the list. Click on Run Now.
Wait for the report to be generated and click on Download Report. Save the file as Desktop\Files\VMs_Power_state.zip.
1. Open the Report section on Prism Central (Operations > Reports)
2. Click on the New Report button to start the creation of your custom report
3. Under the Custom Views section, select Data Table
4. Provide a title to your custom report, as well as a description if required.
5. Under the Entity Type option, select VM
6. This report can include all as well as a selection of the VMs
7. Click on the Custom Columns option and add the below variables:
a. Name - Name of the listed Virtual Machine
b. vCPUs - A combination of the vCores and vCPU's assigned to the Virtual Machine
c. Memory - Amount of memory assigned to the Virtual Machine
d. Disk Capacity - The total amount of assigned virtual disk capacity
e. Disk Usage - The total used virtual disk capacity
f. Snapshot Usage - The total amount of capacity used by snapshots (Excluding Protection Domain snapshots)
8. Under the Aggregation option for Memory and Disk Usage accept the default Average option

9. Click on the Add button to add this custom selection to your report
10. Next click on the Save and Run Now button on the bottom right of the screen
11. Provide the relevant details on this screen for your custom report:

12. You can leave the Time Period For Report variable at the default of Last 24 Hours
13. Specify a report output of preference (PDF or CSV) and if required Additional Recipients for this report to be mailed to. The report can also simply be downloaded after this creation and initial run if required
14. Below is an example of this report in a CSV format:
Task 2
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.
To configure the storage for the Citrix-based VDI, you can follow these steps:
Log in to Prism Central using the credentials provided.
Go to Storage > Storage Pools and click on Create Storage Pool.
Enter a name for the new storage pool, such as VDI_Storage_Pool, and select the disks to include in the pool. You can choose any combination of SSDs and HDDs, but for optimal performance, you may prefer to use more SSDs than HDDs.
Click Save to create the storage pool.
Go to Storage > Containers and click on Create Container.
Enter a name for the new container for the non-persistent pool, such as MCS_Pool_Container, and select the storage pool that you just created, VDI_Storage_Pool, as the source.
Under Advanced Settings, enable Deduplication and Compression to reduce the storage footprint of the non-persistent desktops. You can also enable Erasure Coding if you have enough nodes in your cluster and want to save more space. These settings will help you optimize the storage capacity for the non-persistent pool.
Click Save to create the container.
Go to Storage > Containers and click on Create Container again.
Enter a name for the new container for the persistent pool, such as Persist_Pool_Container, and select the same storage pool, VDI_Storage_Pool, as the source.
Under Advanced Settings, enable Capacity Reservation and enter 20 GiB as the reserved capacity. This will guarantee that 20 GiB of space is always available for the persistent desktops. You can also enter 100 GiB as the advertised capacity to limit the maximum space that this container can use. These settings will help you control the storage allocation for the persistent pool.
Click Save to create the container.
Go to Storage > Datastores and click on Create Datastore.
Enter a name for the new datastore for the non-persistent pool, such as MCS_Pool_Datastore, and select NFS as the datastore type. Select the container that you just created, MCS_Pool_Container, as the source.
Click Save to create the datastore.
Go to Storage > Datastores and click on Create Datastore again.
Enter a name for the new datastore for the persistent pool, such as Persist_Pool_Datastore, and select NFS as the datastore type. Select the container that you just created, Persist_Pool_Container, as the source.
Click Save to create the datastore.
The datastores will be automatically mounted on all nodes in the cluster. You can verify this by going to Storage > Datastores and clicking on each datastore. You should see all nodes listed under Hosts.
You can now use Citrix Studio to create your VDI pools using MCS or full clones on these datastores. For more information on how to use Citrix Studio with Nutanix Acropolis, see Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on Nutanix or Nutanix virtualization environments.


https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2079-Citrix-Virtual-Apps-and-Desktops:bp-nutanix-storage-configuration.html
Task4
An administrator will be deploying Flow Networking and needs to validate that the environment, specifically switch vs1, is appropriately configured. Only VPC traffic should be carried by the switch.
Four versions each of two possible commands have been placed in Desktop\Files\Network\flow.txt. Remove the hash mark (#) from the front of correct First command and correct Second command and save the file.
Only one hash mark should be removed from each section. Do not delete or copy lines, do not add additional lines. Any changes other than removing two hash marks (#) will result in no credit.
Also, SSH directly to any AHV node (not a CVM) in the cluster and from the command line display an overview of the Open vSwitch configuration. Copy and paste this to a new text file named Desktop\Files\Network\AHVswitch.txt.
Note: You will not be able to use the 192.168.5.0 network in this environment.
First command
#net.update_vpc_traffic_config virtual_switch=vs0
net.update_vpc_traffic_config virtual_switch=vs1
#net.update_vpc_east_west_traffic_config virtual_switch=vs0
#net.update_vpc_east_west_traffic_config virtual_switch=vs1
Second command
#net.update_vpc_east_west_traffic_config permit_all_traffic=true
net.update_vpc_east_west_traffic_config permit_vpc_traffic=true
#net.update_vpc_east_west_traffic_config permit_all_traffic=false
#net.update_vpc_east_west_traffic_config permit_vpc_traffic=false
First, you need to open the Prism Central CLI from the Windows Server 2019 workstation. You can do this by clicking on the Start menu and typing ''Prism Central CLI''. Then, you need to log in with the credentials provided to you.
Second, you need to run the two commands that I have already given you in Desktop\Files\Network\flow.txt. These commands are:
net.update_vpc_traffic_config virtual_switch=vs1 net.update_vpc_east_west_traffic_config permit_vpc_traffic=true
These commands will update the virtual switch that carries the VPC traffic to vs1, and update the VPC east-west traffic configuration to allow only VPC traffic. You can verify that these commands have been executed successfully by running the command:
net.get_vpc_traffic_config
This command will show you the current settings of the virtual switch and the VPC east-west traffic configuration.
Third, you need to SSH directly to any AHV node (not a CVM) in the cluster and run the command:
ovs-vsctl show
This command will display an overview of the Open vSwitch configuration on the AHV node. You can copy and paste the output of this command to a new text file named Desktop\Files\Network\AHVswitch.txt.
You can use any SSH client such as PuTTY or Windows PowerShell to connect to the AHV node. You will need the IP address and the credentials of the AHV node, which you can find in Prism Element or Prism Central.
remove # from greens
On AHV execute:
sudo ovs-vsctl show
CVM access AHV access command
nutanix@NTNX-A-CVM:192.168.10.5:~$ ssh root@192.168.10.2 'ovs-vsctl show'
Open AHVswitch.txt and copy paste output
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