Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA)

This intermediate course is designed specifically for IT professionals—Systems Administrators, Cloud Engineers, and Data Center Architects—who already possess a foundational understanding of Nutanix but want to master the intricacies of the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP).

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Deploy and configure Prism Element and Prism Central for multi-cluster management
• Secure infrastructure using RBAC, cluster hardening, and guest VM security features
• Manage AHV networking, including virtual switches, subnets, and network segmentation
• Configure and manage core storage constructs, including storage pools, containers, and volume groups
• Administer VM lifecycles from creation and templates to advanced disk operations and NGT
• Automate tasks through X-Play playbooks and workload placement/affinity policies
• Implement data protection and disaster recovery using snapshots, recovery plans, and Nutanix Move
• Maintain cluster health and perform non-disruptive upgrades via Life Cycle Manager (LCM)

Module 1: Introduction

• Introduction to Nutanix, Product Portfolio
• Understanding Your Cluster
• Accessing Prism Central and Prism Element
• Using the Nutanix Support Portal

Module 2: Security

• Nutanix’s Approach to Security
• The Security Dashboard
• Authentication and Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Infrastructure Hardening

Module 3: Networking

• Understanding AHV Networking
• Managing Networks in Prism Central and Prism Element
• Understanding Network Segmentation

Module 4: Storage

• Understanding AOS Storage and Nutanix Storage Constructs
• Storage Resiliency
• Capacity Optimization
• Storage Management in Prism Central

Module 5: Categories

• Understanding Categories
• Pre-built and Custom Categories
• Assigning and Unassigning Categories

Module 6: Images

• Understanding the Image Service
• Uploading Images to Prism Central and Prism Element
• Importing Images to Prism Central
• Modifying Uploaded Images

Module 7: Creating VMs

• Exploring the VMs Dashboard
• Creating VMs in AHV
• Using Nutanix Guest Tools

Module 8: Managing VMs

• Updating Existing VMs
• Working with VM Templates
• Cloning and Customizing VMs
• Exporting and Importing VMs

Module 9: Protecting and Recovering VM Data

• Working with Snapshots in Prism Element
• Working with Recovery Points in Prism Central
• Using Self Service Restore

Module 10: Policies

• Using Storage Policies
• Using Affinity and Anti-Affinity Policies
• Using NGT Policies
• Using VM Startup Policies

Module 11: Task Automation

• Understanding Task Automation in Prism Central
• Playbooks and their Components
• Using Manually Triggered Playbooks
• Using Alert-Triggered Playbooks

Module 12: Disaster Recovery

• Understanding Data Protection Strategies
• Understanding Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication
• Using Nutanix Disaster Recovery

Module 13: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

• Understanding Move and its Components
• Deploying and Configuring Move
• Configuring Migration Plans

Module 14: Monitoring Cluster Performance

• Using the Analysis Dashboards
• Working with Sessions
• Reporting in Prism Central
• Customizing Prism Central’s Main Dashboard
• Creating Custom Dashboards

Module 15: Monitoring Cluster Health

• Health Monitoring in Prism Central and Prism Element
• Using Nutanix Cluster Check

Module 16: Upgrading a Cluster

• Introduction to Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
• Understanding Inventory and Upgrade Processes
• Understanding Dark Site Upgrades

Module 17: Cluster Maintenance

• Using Maintenance Mode
• Starting and Stopping Nodes and Clusters

Participants should have a basic understanding of IT infrastructure, virtualization technologies, networking concepts, and operating systems. Familiarity with data center operations and cloud computing concepts is recommended.

Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI)

• AAPM - Nutanix Advanced Administration and Performance Management

- Official course book provided to participants

- Includes hands-on labs

- Comes with a free NCP-MCI exam voucher

Software

- AOS

- Prism Central