VMware, Citrix & Nutanix
NECA: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration
Run a Nutanix cluster with confidence, day to day.
4 daysIntermediate14 modules
About this course
Run a Nutanix cluster with confidence, day to day. Across four days you will cover hyperconverged infrastructure, cluster security and RBAC in Prism Central, AHV networking, images, creating and managing VMs, data protection and replication, distributed storage, workload migration with Nutanix Move, performance and health monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades through Life Cycle Manager.
What you'll learn
- Understanding core Nutanix concepts, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the various Nutanix cloud solution packages. Also, the basic configuration of a cluster and the components that are needed to create and manage VMs namely, networks and images.
- Creating and managing VMs, how to protect VMs and their data, how to apply storage optimization features at the VM level, and how to migrate your workloads to a Nutanix environment.
- Learn about alerts, events, log collection, reporting, and how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze, and remediate performance issues.
- Learn how to set up a cluster for maintenance activities such as starting and stopping nodes and clusters and how to manage and upgrade licenses and installed software with just a few clicks.
Curriculum
14 modules
- Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
- Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages
- Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services
- Get Started with Prism Central and Prism Element
- Understand when to use Prism Central and when to use Prism Element
- Understand Nutanix's approach to security
- Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users, and RBAC
- Understand Policies in Flow Network Security
- Use Prism Element to configure Data-at-Rest Encryption
- Understand AHV networking terminology
- Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks
- Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer
- Create and update subnets and virtual switches
- Understand subnet extension and network segmentation
- Understand the image service
- Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images
- Use Prism Central to create VMs
- Use Prism Central's self-service capabilities to create VM templates
- Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools
- Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs
- Create and apply storage policies to VMs
- Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks
- Understand data protection terms and concepts
- Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities
- Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and DR
- Use Prism Central to create protection policies with Leap
- Understand AOS Distributed Storage
- Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots
- Understand fault tolerance and failure handling mechanisms
- Create and update storage containers
- Use various capacity optimization features
- Understand, install, and upgrade Nutanix Move
- Use Move to migrate VMs
- Download Move logs
- Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
- Create sessions, charts, and reports
- Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
- Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element
- Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism
- Use Nutanix Cluster Check
- Collect logs.
- Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
- Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
- Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs
- Performing health checks
- Using maintenance mode
- Starting and stopping nodes and clusters
- Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters
- Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow
- Performing an upgrade using LCM
- Licensing a cluster and managing licenses
Who it's for
Virtualisation and data centre administrators who manage, or are moving to, Nutanix hyperconverged clusters.
Before you start
No formal prerequisites. Bring curiosity and a willingness to practise.
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