Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) v6.5

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:

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. Learn about alerts, events, log collection, reporting, & how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze, & remediate performance issues.

 

  1. 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
  • 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, 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

 

 

Nutanix Technical Certifications have been designed from the ground up to recognize the real-world skills & knowledge needed to successfully deploy, manage, optimize, & scale a Hybrid Multicloud solution. Earning certifications in these areas validates that you have proven

Successful NCA professionals have 3-6 months of Nutanix multi-cloud infrastructure experience & 6-12 months of generalized I.T. experience & can assist in operating & managing a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Successful NCP professionals have approximately 6-12 months of Nutanix multi-cloud infrastructure experience as well as 1-2 years of generalized I.T. experience.

: The Nutanix Certified Expert - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCX-MCI) Certification recognizes multi-cloud infrastructure practitioners who have mastered Nutanix enterprise cloud solution design skills. 

The NCX-MCI certification allows professionals to validate their advanced design skills & product knowledge by successfully presenting a template-guided solution to a panel of experts. Those who want to go deeper into the core AOS product, & for those who will be engaged in the post-sales implementation of G2000-scale solutions & the documentation required for success, the NPX Program is the next step.

: To recertify an NCA v5 certification, you need to earn the NCA v6 or any NCP v6 certification

A: A Nutanix v5 or v6 certification is obtained by passing a v5 or v6 exam. If you took multiple v5 or v6 exams (i.e., NCP-MCI 5.15 & NCP-MCI 5.20) related to the same certification, you would only see the relevant certification (i.e., NCP-MCI 5).

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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.

 

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