An administrator notices that the link between the source and destination clusters gets overutilized during recovery point replication. The company…

Nutanix Network Segmentation for Disaster Recovery allows an administrator to create a separate virtual network dedicated to replication traffic. By configuring this segmented network to use the new 10G physical NICs, all DR-related traffic between the source and destination clusters can be isolated onto this high-speed link. This prevents replication from consuming bandwidth on the primary management network, ensuring performance for both cluster operations and data protection activities. This is the designed feature for this specific use case.

A. Configure Flow Rules: Flow Rules are part of Nutanix Flow Network Security and are used for microsegmentation to control traffic between VMs, not for routing replication traffic over specific physical links.

C. Configure Network Segmentation for Volumes: This feature is used to isolate iSCSI traffic for Nutanix Volumes, not for inter-cluster replication traffic.

D. Configure Backplane Network: The backplane network is a private, CVM-only network for intra-cluster communication and is not used for replication traffic between separate clusters.

1. Nutanix Prism Central Guide, Version pc-2023.4, "Securing Traffic with Network Segmentation". This section details creating separate virtual networks for specific traffic types, including Disaster Recovery.

2. Nutanix University, Nutanix Data Protection and Disaster Recovery (NDPDR) 7.0 courseware, Module "Configuring Data Protection", Section "Network Segmentation". This section explicitly covers using network segmentation to direct replication traffic.