A consultant is working on an expansion project for a customer that has an existing...

The most efficient and safest way to implement the customer's desire to reserve storage capacity for future node failures after expanding their existing 7-node RF2 cluster with four additional nodes is to first expand the cluster with the additional nodes, and then enable the Reserve Rebuild Capacity setting. This approach allows the cluster to immediately benefit from increased storage and other resources provided by the additional nodes, which can then be partially reserved to handle potential future failures. This method ensures both an increase in total capacity and the preservation of operational integrity during node failures.References: Nutanix Prism User Guide, Nutanix Best Practices for Cluster Expansion.