Exam NCP-MCI-7.5 Topic 1 Question 110 Discussion

Nutanix Foundation documentation explains that Standalone Foundation can be used for imaging or re- imaging nodes, including bare-metal imaging scenarios where the target nodes do not already have a host operating system. This matches the scenario exactly: the new node has no operating system, and the administrator needs a deployment tool to image it into the cluster. Since IPMI is not configured, a centrally managed remote bare-metal workflow like Foundation Central is less appropriate than directly using Standalone Foundation for node imaging. ( Nutanix ) The other options fit different situations. Phoenix ISO is generally associated with recovery and low-level reinstallation paths rather than the normal first-choice imaging workflow for adding a new node in an expansion scenario. Discovery OS is not the intended answer for cluster imaging itself. Foundation Central is designed to orchestrate many deployments at scale, but the question is about imaging a specific new bare- metal node without existing out-of-band configuration. Nutanix documentation describes Standalone Foundation as a supported answer for exactly this type of node imaging task, so D is correct. ( Nutanix )