Training Overview
If you already have experience with administering a Nutanix environment, this training will extend, deepen, & broaden your knowledge as you grow in your career as a Nutanix administrator.
Designed with Prism Central as the focal point, this training illustrates the breadth & depth of Nutanix's centralized management capabilities, & allows you to explore the wide variety of features that are available in this one single web console.
ECA is divided into four major sections:
- Understanding core Nutanix concepts, such as hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) & the various Nutanix cloud solution packages. Also, the basic configuration of a cluster & the components that are needed to create & manage V.M.s – namely, networks & images.
- Creating & managing V.M.s, how to protect V.M.s & their data, how to apply storage optimization features at the V.M. level, & how to migrate your workloads to a Nutanix environment.
- Learn about alerts, events, log collection, reporting, & how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze, & remediate performance issues.
- Learn how to set up a cluster for maintenance activities – such as starting & stopping nodes & clusters – & how to manage & upgrade licenses & installed software with just a few clicks.
Prerequisites
Audience Profile
- Administrators, engineers, & others who manage Nutanix clusters in the data center
- Managers & technical staff seeking information to drive purchase decisions
- Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification
Learning Objectives:
Content Outline
- Understand three-tier & hyper-converged infrastructure
- Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages
- Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, & cluster services
- Get Started with Prism Central & Prism Element
- Understand when to use Prism Central & when to use Prism Element
Hands-on Labs
- Connecting to & exploring the Prism Web Console
- Adding data services I.P., an NTP server, & a name server
- Configuring Active Directory authentication
- Exploring Prism Central
- Prism Central initial configuration
- Connecting to & exploring the Prism Web Console
- Adding data services I.P., an NTP server, & a name server
- Configuring Active Directory authentication
- Exploring Prism Central
- Prism Central initial configuration
- Understand Nutanix's approach to security
- Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users, & RBAC
- Understand Policies in Flow Network Security
- Use Prism Element to configure Data-at-Rest Encryption
Hands-on Labs
- Adding a local user
Verifying a new user account
- Understand AHV networking terminology
- Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks
- Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer
- Create & update subnets & virtual switches
- Understand subnet extension & network segmentation
Hands-on Labs
- Creating unmanaged & managed networks
- Exploring the AHV network configuration
- Managing virtual switches & uplinks
- Viewing virtual switches from the Prism Web Console
- Understand the image service
- Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, & manage images
Hands-on Labs
- Uploading & importing images to Prism Central
- Configuring an image placement policy
- Use Prism Central to create V.M.s
- Use Prism Central's self-service capabilities to create V.M. templates
- Install & enable Nutanix Guest Tools
Hands-on Labs
- Creating Windows & Linux VMs
- Installing Windows & Linux operating systems
- Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows & Linux
- Update, clone, customize, export, & apply placement rules to V.M.s
- Create & apply storage policies to V.M.s
- Create playbooks to automate common V.M. administrative tasks
Hands-on Labs
- Updating a V.M.
- Creating a template & a clone
- Exporting a V.M. as an OVA
- Creating & running a playbook
- Creating a storage policy
- Understand data protection terms & concepts
- Understand synchronous & asynchronous replication capabilities
- Use Prism Element to configure local & remote backup & D.R.
- Use Prism Central to create protection policies with Leap
Hands-on Labs
- Creating protection domains & local VM restore
- Creating containers for replication
- Configuring remote sites & creating protection domains
- Performing VM migration & migrating back to primary
- Understand AOS Distributed Storage
- Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, & snapshots
- Understand fault tolerance & failure handling mechanisms
- Create & update storage containers
- Use various capacity optimization features
Hands-on Labs
- Exploring the Storage dashboard
- Creating containers with & without compression
- Comparing data in a compressed vs. uncompressed container
- Migrating disks between storage containers
- Understand AOS Distributed Storage
- Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, & snapshots
- Understand fault tolerance & failure handling mechanisms
- Create & update storage containers
- Use various capacity optimization features
Hands-on Labs
- Exploring the Storage dashboard
- Creating containers with & without compression
- Comparing data in a compressed vs. uncompressed container
- Migrating disks between storage containers
- Understand, install, & upgrade Nutanix Move
- Use Move to migrate V.M.s
- Download Move logs
Hands-on Labs
- Preparing a V.M. for migration
- Deploying a Move V.M.
- Configuring Move & a migration plan
- Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
- Create sessions, charts, & reports
- Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
Hands-on Labs
- Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard
- Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central
- Creating & managing reports
- Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central & Prism Element
- Get summarized & detailed health information from Prism
- Use Nutanix Cluster Check
- Collect logs
Hands-on Labs
- Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
- Collecting logs for Support
- Understand alerts & events & the associated dashboards in Prism Central
- Identify problematic or inefficient V.M.s
- Potential methods of remediating problematic V.M.s
Hands-on Labs
- Working with Alerts
- Exploring Events
- Performing health checks
- Using maintenance mode
- Starting & stopping nodes & clusters
- Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters
Hands-on Labs
- Verifying cluster health
- Putting a node into maintenance mode & removing it
- Understanding LCM & the LCM workflow
- Performing an upgrade using LCM
- Licensing a cluster & managing licenses
Hands-on Labs
- Use Life Cycle Manager to upgrade NCC
Certification
Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI)
NCP-MCI certification holders have demonstrated the skills & knowledge to manage Nutanix AOS nodes, blocks, & clusters in the data center. Earning it validates your ability to deploy, administer, & troubleshoot Nutanix AOS, proving your mastery of key concepts from V.M. management to lifecycle operations.
Skills measured
Certification Path