NCP-MCI v7.5: Nutanix Certified Professional — Multicloud Infrastructure

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Perform DR and Data Protection in a Multicloud Environment

A virtual machine is protected by a protection policy, and its associated volume group is configured with CHAP authentication. As part of a monthly routine, an administrator rotates the VM's password.

What action must the administrator take to ensure the password is retained in the event of a failover?

Explanation

When a volume group uses CHAP authentication and is protected for disaster recovery (including synchronous replication scenarios), the CHAP secret is also referenced within the recovery plan configuration used to bring up resources at the recovery site. If the CHAP password is rotated on the source but not updated in the recovery plan, the target site continues to use the old password, causing a mismatch after failover and loss of connectivity for VM clients accessing the volume group. To ensure the new password is retained and applied correctly after failover, the administrator must update the CHAP password value within the associated recovery plan.

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