The NPX Design Review (NDR) has a 60 minute “Design Exercise” where the NDR Examiners present a design scenario with a set of business requirements and constraints that you need to address. This post is an enhancement of the design strategy I developed for VCDX and tailored for NPX and Nutanix XCP design.
The NDR Examiners are playing the role of a “customer”, with minimal training and knowledge of the platform, and the NPX candidate is the “expert” driving the logical design for the solution.
This post is written with an ESXi and AHV focus (clearly understand what AHV is capable of), Hyper-V is not covered at all.