Given that the customer’s security policy prohibits connecting a consultant’s laptop within the

corporate datacenter, the consultant can complete the deployment using:

A . The Controller VM-based Foundation process, which allows the consultant to configure and

deploy the cluster using the software tools provided within the Controller VM itself. This method

does not require direct laptop connection to the network. C. Run the Network Crashcart Script to

manually configure IP addresses on the hosts and then proceed to create the cluster manually. This

approach involves using available scripts and utilities that can be executed from within the data

center's management interfaces without needing direct laptop access. Options B and D would

typically require direct network connection capabilities not permissible under the security

constraints.

Reference: Nutanix Foundation Documentation, Nutanix Deployment Best Practices.