A consultant is setting up Prism Central to manage multiple Nutanix clusters. The customer requires til redundancy and tre aby to manage up to 12,500 VMs. Which deployment option should the consultant use to meet the requirements?

The customer requires both redundancy and the ability to manage 12,500 VMs. A single Prism Central VM, even the "Large" size which supports up to 12,500 VMs, represents a single point of failure and does not provide redundancy. A Prism Central scale-out deployment, which consists of a three-VM cluster, is specifically designed to provide high availability (redundancy) for the management plane. This deployment model also increases the management scale to 25,000 VMs, thereby meeting both of the customer's requirements.

A. Maximizing server resources for a single VM provides scale-up but does not add the required redundancy.
B. "Prism Central cluster mode" is a general term; "Scale-out deployment" is the specific and correct name for this configuration.
D. A single Large Prism Central VM meets the VM count but fails to provide the critical redundancy requirement.

1. Nutanix Prism Central Guide (pc-2022.9), "Prism Central Scalability," Section: "Prism Central Instance Size and Scale". This section details that a single Large PC VM supports 12,500 VMs but a scale-out PC (3-node) supports 25,000 VMs.

2. Nutanix Prism Central Guide (pc-2022.9), "Deploying a Scale-Out Prism Central," Section: "Prism Central High Availability". This section states, "To enable high availability for Prism Central, you must deploy a scale-out Prism Central (PC cluster) with three Prism Central VMs."