An administrator has been asked to confirm the ability of a physical Windows Server 2019 host to boot from storage on a Nutanix AOS cluster.
Which statement is true regarding this confirmation by the administrator?
An administrator has been asked to confirm the ability of a physical Windows Server 2019 host to boot from storage on a Nutanix AOS cluster.
Which statement is true regarding this confirmation by the administrator?
Physical servers may boot from a volume group from the data services IP, and MPIO (Multipath I/O) is not required. Nutanix efficiently handles redundancy and ensures high availability within the cluster, which eliminates the need for MPIO on the server side. Therefore, option C correctly describes the capability of a physical Windows Server 2019 host to boot from storage on a Nutanix AOS cluster.
B is correct
https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/microsoft-failover-cluster-msft-on-nutanix-38573
Nutanix doesn't recommand to use MPIO
When a physical server boots from Nutanix storage, it can directly access the storage via the Nutanix Data Services IP. MPIO (Multipath I/O) is not required because Nutanix manages redundancy and availability internally within the cluster. Nutanix uses its own mechanisms (like data replication and fault tolerance techniques) to ensure high availability and reliability, which negates the need for traditional MPIO setups on the server side