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If one power supply is disconnected from a NX-3235-G9 chassis, the behavior observed will be:

The hardware status updates to reflect the change in Prism Element, the hosts continues to run, and the Host hardware power status alert is sent: Modern Nutanix hardware like the NX-3235-G9 is designed with redundant power supplies to ensure that the loss of one does not impact the overall operation of the cluster. Prism Element updates the hardware status to notify administrators of the power supply issue, but there is no impact on running workloads.

References:

Nutanix Bible (https://www.nutanixbible.com ), particularly the sections on hardware management and monitoring.

Nutanix University: NCS-Core 6.8 Training (https://university.nutanix.com ), which includes information on responding to hardware alerts and maintaining cluster health.