Exam NCA-7.5 Topic 1 Question 3 Discussion
Actual exam question for Nutanix's NCA-7.5 exam
Question #: 3
Topic #: 1
Question #: 3
Topic #: 1
Which Nutanix product provides unstructured file-storage services through SMB and NFS for home directories and user profiles on a Nutanix cluster?
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Nutanix Files is the scale-out file-storage service designed to provide SMB shares and NFS exports for unstructured data. Typical use cases include user home directories, roaming or virtual-desktop profiles, departmental shares, application logs, archives, and general enterprise file services. Files deploys File Server VMs that present the client-facing file protocols while using the Nutanix distributed storage layer underneath.
Nutanix Move is a workload-migration utility used to transfer VMs between supported source and target platforms; it does not provide file shares. Nutanix Volumes supplies block-storage services, commonly exposed through iSCSI, for applications that require block devices rather than SMB or NFS file systems.
Nutanix Objects provides S3-compatible object storage and is intended for applications using object APIs rather than conventional file protocols.
The presence of SMB, NFS, home directories, and user profiles makes the use case specifically file-oriented.
Nutanix documentation identifies Files as a repository for unstructured data and lists home directories and user profiles among its standard workloads. Reference: Nutanix Files Storage Technical Note . NHCF alignment: differentiating Files, Volumes, Objects, and migration services by protocol and workload type.
Nutanix Move is a workload-migration utility used to transfer VMs between supported source and target platforms; it does not provide file shares. Nutanix Volumes supplies block-storage services, commonly exposed through iSCSI, for applications that require block devices rather than SMB or NFS file systems.
Nutanix Objects provides S3-compatible object storage and is intended for applications using object APIs rather than conventional file protocols.
The presence of SMB, NFS, home directories, and user profiles makes the use case specifically file-oriented.
Nutanix documentation identifies Files as a repository for unstructured data and lists home directories and user profiles among its standard workloads. Reference: Nutanix Files Storage Technical Note . NHCF alignment: differentiating Files, Volumes, Objects, and migration services by protocol and workload type.
by Meroy at Sep 26, 2026, 09:08 AM
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