Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) EN

Teaching methodology

The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work to complete training exercises, providing practical experience in using the tools for each of the topics addressed. 

Below is an overview of the course contents:

1: Introduction to a Nutanix Cluster

• Understand three-tier and hyper-converged 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

Hands-on labs:

• Connect and explore the Prism Web Console
• Add data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server
• Configure Active Directory authentication
• Explore Prism Central
• Initial configuration of Prism Central

2: Protecting a Nutanix Cluster

• 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

Hands-on labs:

• Add a local user
• Verify a new user account

3: Cluster Network Configuration

• Understand AHV networking terminology
• Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks
• Use Prism Element to explore the Network Viewer
• Create and update subnets and virtual switches
• Understand subnet extension and network segmentation

Hands-on labs:

• Create managed and unmanaged networks
• Explore AHV network configuration
• Manage virtual switches and uplinks
• View virtual switches in the Prism Web Console

4: Image Management

• Understand the image service
• Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images

Hands-on labs:

• Upload and import images to Prism Central
• Configure an image placement policy

5: Creating Virtual Machines (VMs)

• Use Prism Central to create VMs
• Use Prism Central’s self-service features to create VM templates
• Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools

Hands-on labs:

• Create Windows and Linux VMs
• Install Windows and Linux operating systems
• Install Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux

6: Managing Virtual Machines (VMs)

• 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

Hands-on labs:

• Update a VM
• Create a template and a clone
• Export a VM as an OVA
• Create and execute a playbook
• Create a storage policy

7: Protecting VMs and Their Data

• 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

Hands-on labs:

• Create protection domains and perform local VM recovery
• Create containers for replication
• Configure remote sites and create protection domains
• Migrate VMs and return them to the primary site

8: Cluster Storage Configuration and Management

• Understand AOS distributed storage
• Understand key storage concepts like storage pools, storage containers, redundancy and replication factors, capacity reservation, and snapshots
• Understand fault tolerance and failure management mechanisms
• Create and update storage containers
• Use various capacity optimization features

Hands-on labs:

• Explore the Storage dashboard
• Create containers with and without compression
• Compare data in compressed and uncompressed containers
• Migrate vDisks between storage containers

9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

• Understand, install, and update Nutanix Move
• Use Move to migrate VMs
• Download Move logs

Hands-on labs:

• Prepare a VM for migration
• Deploy a Move VM
• Configure Move and a migration plan

10: Cluster Performance Monitoring

• Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
• Create sessions, charts, and reports
• Create custom dashboards in Prism Central

Hands-on labs:

• Create a performance monitoring dashboard in Prism Central
• Create charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central
• Create and manage reports

11: Cluster Health Monitoring

• Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element
• Obtain summary and detailed health information from Prism
• Use Nutanix Cluster Check
• Collect logs

Hands-on labs:

• Use Nutanix Cluster Check for health checks
• Collect logs for support
• Create and manage reports

12: Investigating and Troubleshooting Performance Issues

• Understand alerts and events and associated dashboards in Prism Central
• Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
• Potential methods to resolve problematic VMs

Hands-on labs:

• Work with alerts
• Explore events

13: Performing Cluster Maintenance

• Perform health checks
• Use maintenance mode
• Start and stop nodes and clusters
• Add or remove nodes from clusters

Hands-on labs:

• Verify cluster health
• Place a node into maintenance mode and remove it

14: Updating Licenses, Software, and Firmware

• Understand LCM and the LCM workflow
• Perform an update using LCM
• License a cluster and manage licenses

Hands-on labs:

• Use Life Cycle Manager to update NCC

Duration – 4 days

Delivery – in the classroom, on site, remotely

PC and SW requirements :

• Internet connection
• Browser web, Google Chrome
• Zoom

Language

• Instructor : English
• Workshops : English
• Slides: English