High Availability (HA) in Nutanixprovidespriority-based VM restart capabilitiesto ensure that certain VMs are powered onbefore othersin the event of ahost reboot or failure.
* Option C (High Availability) is correct:
* NutanixHA policiesallow administrators toprioritize VM startup orderto ensure that critical services (such as database VMs or management VMs) are available before others.
* Option A (Recovery Plan) is incorrect:
* Recovery Plans are used inDisaster Recovery (DR) scenariosand do not control boot order during normal host restarts.
* Option B (Host Affinity) is incorrect:
* Host Affinity is used tokeep a VM pinned to a specific host, but it does not control boot sequencing.
* Option D (Agent VM) is incorrect:
* Agent VMs (such asWitness VMs) are specialized virtual machines used forMetro Availability, not general boot priority settings.
References:
* Nutanix Prism Element Guide #Configuring HA Reservation and VM Priority
* Nutanix Bible #High Availability (HA) and VM Failover
* Nutanix KB #VM Restart Priority in High Availability Configurations