Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Administration

- Administrators, engineers, and others who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter

- Managers and technical staff seeking information to drive purchase decisions

- Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification

ECA covers four key areas:

1.Core Nutanix Concepts: Gain a deep understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the various Nutanix cloud solution packages. Learn the basics of cluster configuration and the components for creating and managing VMs – namely, networks and images.

2.VM Management: Explore how to create and manage VMs, work with projects, protect VMs and their data, apply storage optimization features at the VM level, and migrate your workloads to a Nutanix environment.

3.Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Learn about alerts, events, log collection, reporting, and how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze and remediate performance issues.

4.Maintenance and Upgrades: Learn how to set up a cluster for maintenance activities – such as starting and stopping nodes and clusters – and how to upgrade installed software and firmware with just a few clicks. 4. 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.

Module 1: Getting Started with a Nutanix Cluster

• Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
• Understand the Nutanix product portfolio
• 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

Module 2. Configuring Cluster Networking

• 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

Module 3: Managing Images

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

Module 4: Creating Virtual Machines

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

Module 5: Managing Virtual Machines

• 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

Module 6: Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage

• Understand AOS 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
• Create and update volume groups
• Use various capacity optimization features

Module 7: Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

• Understand data protection terms and concepts
• Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities
• Create snapshots and recovery points
• Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and disaster recovery
• Use Nutanix disaster recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans
• Backup and restore Prism Central

Module 8: Securing a Nutanix Cluster

• Understand the Nutanix approach to security
• Use the Security dashboard in Prism Central
• Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users and RBAC
• Implement hardening features for AHV and the CVM
• Understand policies in Flow Network Security
• Understand data-at-rest encryption

Module 9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

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

Module 10: Monitoring Cluster Performance

• Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
• Create sessions, charts, and reports
• View and manage project resource utilization
• Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
• Resource planning and capacity runway

Module 11: Monitoring Cluster Health

• Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element
• Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism
• Use Nutanix Cluster Check
• Collect and forward logs

Module 12: Maintaining and Upgrading a Cluster

• Perform a health check
• Use node-maintenance mode
• Understand hardware upgrade and replacement tasks
• Start and stop nodes and clusters
• Add and remove nodes
• Understand and explore Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
• Use LCM to perform inventory and upgrades

Module 13: Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues

• Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
• Troubleshoot issues with protection policies, LCM, security, and performance
• Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
• Explore potential methods of remediating problematic VMs