A Nutanix cluster is deployed with the following configuration: Three four-node blocks (A, B, and C) All Flash Redundancy Factor 2 What is the effect of simultaneous disk failures on two nodes located in block A?
A) VMs are migrated of the nodes with disk failures.
B) Each node with a failed disk is marked as degraded.
C) VM read and write operations continue normally.
D) VMs on the nodes with failed disks are unable to write data

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Dual Disks Failures: With Replication Factor = 2, we have two copies of each data block. Also, with a 4TB Disk which is only 1TB utilized, we will have 1TB worth of blocks/data across the cluster (shorter rebuild times as we factor in the capacity utilized) - plus with AOS proactive disk alerting, so, unless two disks are pulled at the same time, this can be a very rare occurrence of two drives failing at the same time.

A Nutanix Cluster Is Deployed with the Following Configuration: Three