Network Appliance NS0-173 Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist Online Training
Network Appliance NS0-173 Online Training
The questions for NS0-173 were last updated at Oct 16,2025.
- Exam Code: NS0-173
- Exam Name: Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist
- Certification Provider: Network Appliance
- Latest update: Oct 16,2025
A customer is planning to deploy a FlexPod solution for a large scale SAN requirement that uses the FC protocol. The customer plans to use Smart Zoning in the configurations to reduce the number of TCAM entries in the zoning process.
In this scenario, which design would enable the customer to use Smart Zoning?
- A . storage connected to Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches
- B . storage connected to Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches
- C . storage connected to Cisco MDS switches
- D . storage directly connected to Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_datacenter_vmware_netappaffa_design.html#_Toc23952741
What are characteristics of the Cisco UCS 5108 blade chassis?
- A . 4 RU, 6 half-width UCS B-Series blades, 160 Gbps I/O bandwidth
- B . 6 RU, 8 half-width UCS B-series blades, 160 Gbps I/O bandwidth
- C . 6 RU, 6 half-width UCS B-series blades, 80 Gbps I/O bandwidth
- D . 4 RU, 8 half-width UCS B-series blades, 40 Gbps I/O bandwidth
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series- blade-servers/spec_sheet_c17-644224.pdf
A customer is evaluating management tools for a new FlexPod infrastructure. They desire a tool that can orchestrate the provisioning of UCS compute nodes, NetApp storage, and VMware networking.
Which tool satisfies the requirements of this customer’s heterogeneous environment?
- A . UCS Central
- B . NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager
- C . NetApp OnCommand Insight
- D . UCS Director
You are configuring a FlexPod system for NAS protocols. You want to ensure that there are multiple paths between the initiators and targets in the solution.
Which two steps will accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
- A . Allow the VLANs over the vPC peer link.
- B . Configure the VLANs in Cisco UCS Manager as Common/Global.
- C . Disable LACP.
- D . Configure the VSANs in the Cisco Nexus 5000 switches.
Click the Exhibit button.
Referring to the exhibit, what is the name given to the link between the two Cisco Nexus switches?
- A . vPC Domain ID
- B . vPC peer domain
- C . vPC peer link
- D . vPC peer connection
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/layer2/503_n2_1/503_n2_1nw/Cisco_n5k_layer2_config_gd_rel_503_N2_1_chapter8.html
When FCoE is configured in a FlexPod environment, which step is required?
- A . Assign a VLAN to the FC Uplink port on the Cisco Fabric Interconnects.
- B . Create a VSAN within service profiles.
- C . Create a VSAN to support FCoE for the FC uplink.
- D . Assign a VSAN to the server uplink port on the Cisco Fabric Interconnects.
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65u1_n9fc.html#_Toc24048288
The storage administrator must change the vHBA settings bound to a template associated with a production server.
What happens when the settings are reconfigured in this scenario?
- A . The vHBA configuration change does not affect LUN access.
- B . The server that is associated with the service profile reboots.
- C . The service profile template that is associated with the server is initialized.
- D . The vHBA template is deleted from UCS Manager.
Which command would a FlexPod administrator use to determine whether an FC initiator has logged on to the fabric?
- A . MDS9148>show fcfwd
- B . MDS9148>show fcdomain
- C . MDS9148>show fcc
- D . MDS9148>show flogi database
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/us/docs/2017/pdf/BRKDCN-1121.pdf
A customer recently configured its Cisco UCS, and within the Chassis Discovery policy, they set the link group preference to Port Channel.
Which two benefits would they derive from this link group preference? (Choose two.)
- A . All the links between the Cisco Fabric Interconnects and chassis IOM are shared.
- B . Each blade has an assigned Cisco Fabric Interconnects link.
- C . All the links between the Cisco Fabric Interconnects and chassis IOM are pinned.
- D . Traffic is load balanced across the links.
After you install a FlexPod infrastructure at a customer site, you need to migrate the existing Vmware virtual machines off the infrastructure that was used before FlexPod was installed.
Which VMware vSphere feature accomplishes this task?
- A . vMotion
- B . vSphere DRS
- C . VM Component Protection
- D . vSphere HA
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